The Argentine Graduation Tradition
<p>In the United States we celebrate graduation day by going out to a fancy restaurant with family, parties, and receiving gifts with cake. However, during my time in <a href="https://vamospanish.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Vamos Spanish Academy</a> in Buenos Aires I learned that there is a graduation tradition that is quite strange to us foreigners. You may have already witnessed this: friends and family of the victim (graduate) find out the last day, location and time of his/her exam and wait for them outside. They are not bearing gifts, flowers, or balloons with congratulations on them but instead eggs, glitter, flour, ketchup, and even scissors to cut up the victim’s close. Luckily the student is expecting this and wears old clothes. The attack commences and the graduate is pelted with eggs, flour, shaving cream and sometimes even old <a href="https://vamospanish.com/argentine-culture-101-yerba-mate/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">mate the traditional Argentine drink</a>.</p>
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