Las Estudiantinas

This weekend was the weekend of "las Estudiantinas" which is a week dedicated to all high school students. "Las Estudiantinas" are parties that are only for students in high school (there are also some for college students). There are four estudiantinas, on four different days, wednesday, thursday, friday, and saturday. Each day there is a estudiantina for each school (and of course the schools have to share because there are a lot of high schools in my city).


I had originally planned on going to all of them, but that didn't quite work out, so I just went to 3 instead of all 4.

I'm not entirely sure how to start, and this is taking a lot longer than expected. So I'm just going to go day by day.

Thursday: Thursday was the day that kicked off las estudiantinas (well it was for me). There was one on Wednesday but I didn't go to that one due to things with my classmates. Anyways, after school I went to classmate's house for lunch. Then after that, we went to the club.

Friday: That day after lunch, I went with a friend to the house of her classmate and hung out with her and all of her classmates. That was so fun! We all made T-shirts and just hung out, they were all really excited because the club we were going to was the one for their school, so..GO SCHOOL SPIRIT! Then we left and went on the bus to the club, it was us (30 teens) and a few other people. It was really fun because they were chanting and singing the entire way. Once in the club, we all danced for a while but eventually everyone kind of broke up into 2s and 3s and went off to different parts of the club. I stuck with my friend and her friend. It was great! I have never had so much fun at one of those clubs before.

Saturday: Then saturday I went with almost all of my classmates. That wasn't quite as fun. I was with the classmates that are completely opposite from me. They had gotten together beforehand (I didn't go because they met in a place that was really far away and I couldn't get there), and had taken that time to get drunk. So by the time we met up, they were completely wasted...I'm not entirely sure how they got in. Because the security is to tough, they don't let anyone in who has been drinking or taking drugs. The day before, they didn't let five girls from my group in because they had been drinking. They had to go home, maybe that will teach them a lesson..follow the freakin rules. Anyways, my classmates got in, and after about 15 minutes, I wanted to leave. Other than them being completely wasted and me being worried about them because they always looked like they were going to pass out, there were soooo many people I could barely move, let alone dance. Then, when we were walking around (my classmates seemed to like doing that a lot) I was always in the back (which everyone had warned me to not be) and so I was always getting pulled from the group to another group where boys would try to kiss me (ok, so people go to las estudiantinas for 1 of 2 things...or both. Dancing and hanging with friends, or kissing cute people). I didn't feel safe at all. At one point I was completely surrounded by boys that were all trying to kiss me and feel me up, and it really scared me. I wanted to cry. So then as soon as I found my classmates I just told them I was done. Then I turned around and left.

So it wasn't a great ending, but las estudiantinas were pretty amazing...at first! :)