It was that day again. The national day of throwing candy! Tens of thousands of upper secondary school seniors known as abit in Finnish celebrated penkkarit across the country. The school is out; the studying is in.
The students stood on the bed of the truck in their imaginative costumes and big bags of paper-wrapped candy. Big sheets that featured slogans and parodies of current happenings in society were hung on the sides of the trucks.
In Helsinki alone, there were over 100 trucks and about 4,000 abis circling around the city center on Thursday afternoon, and hundreds of people of all ages roamed the streets waving and holding their hands out in an attempt of catching some of that sweet stuff.
After getting off the wheels and taking the cruise boat to the Gulf of Finland to indulge in wild partying on the waves, most of these young bright abis begin studying for the matriculation exams that will begin in March.
Many of them will graduate, receive a student cap and a diploma, which will then help them to get into universities of applied sciences and universities.
We caught the action of today’s penkkarit in photos. You can enjoy them below.
