Russ from Egersund.

RUSS ( Students celebrating 13 years at school) who I met at a petrol station.
They are from EGERSUND ( a town south of Stavanger) and they were heading for FORUS.
They will be back at KONGEPARKEN next weekend!
Have fun young ladies!

RUSS

If you google "RUSS and NORWAY" you will find several images of people dressed in RED or BLUE clothes, decorated and looking quite strange to people who do not know what is going on.

Young people have started celebrating finishing their 13 years at school, that is the reason.

Some German tourists I met in town thought they were out demonstrating, but they are just having a good time at school and perhaps even more so outside the school.

These two young students Rut Elise and Katarina were out with the dogs.
They will be at the big RUSS event at KONGEPARKEN soon together with Russ from all over the country!

HAVE FUN!

RED (and BLUE) in the weeks to come.

When I saw this van / car I thought about all the RED (and BLUE) cars that will be used for RUSS (those who are finishing school at the age of 18 or 19 and celebrating in big style just before their exams.)
There will be plenty of them out on the roads in the weeks to come.

ALT FOR NORGE.

We have a TV program here in Norway, called ALT FOR NORGE (Everything for Norway).
Americans with Norwegian relatives who they don't know, are here participating in a reality program that runs over several weeks and takes them to very different parts of our country.

The winner will get to meet their relatives, the rest have to leave one by one. It is on tonight.
The previous episode was from Stavanger, you can see and read about it on Facebook, look for ALT FOR NORGE.

More art...

I now this is art, made by an artist who I have to add the name of later.
Why did I think of Norwegian "RUSS" when I saw it?
What does it tell you?

Seen at the same place as yesterdays posting.

Russ,- this time on a roundabout.

More russ (Pupils who celebrate 13 years of school).
This time, the red ones. They were out on a roundabout today trying to get attention with a poster saying. …. if you want the exams "later" honk your horn. And of course they got the attention that they were after, and of course it was noisy with all the cars……

You can see more RUSS if you click on the label at the end of this posting.

Russ uniform

Russ uniform…..

RUSS

ANNETTE from Trondheim was one of many thousand RUSS from all over Norway, who celebrated finishing 13 years of school at Kongeparken, with lots of partying, concerts and music the whole weekend! On her card was written: "Probably the most charming russ ever!"
She enjoyed meeting up with a friend from Sandnes too, so she had really enjoyed her weekend away.
Best of luck with the exams and more celebrating!

I am abroad, so this time you have to see images from our Constitution Day via this link:

http://www.aftenbladet.no/kultur/Send-oss-dine-17-mai-bilder-3179254.html#.UZZkz6W4-_E

If you click on "vis flere bilder" (Show more pictures) under the images, that means you will see even more images sent in by  readers of our biggest local newspaper.

Todays image is of a van that has been parked for weeks.
No registration number, and it is covered with egg, ketchup, floral and "God knows what!"

I have told you about the RUSS, who are celebrating 13 years at school.
Luckily all of them are not as mad as this!!!

Soon they will have to sit their exams.
I hope they will be fit for it, and do well!


HAPPY WEEKEND!

RUSS 2013.


I got a hug from the young woman to the left today.
And the young man to the right held a speech in front of a statue at the old marketplace.
It was all filmed by the girl in the middle.

They have had 13 years at school, and they might continue being students for some more years.

Anyway, for those who are following my blog, please click on RUSS under the image, for more info.

They were all from the collage St. Olav, and from the same class.

I wish each one of you, lot`s of FUN when you celebrate with other RUSS.

Unfortunately, I was in a hurry, so if you see this on Facebook, please add your names if you want to.

Remember the word RUSS (click underneath on the word next to labels).

These four young guys, all from "Randaberg vgs." are in the process of taking their exams after 13 years at school, but before that they are celebrating the event for weeks, some both during the day and night!

They will all attend at the National RUSS celebrating at "Kongeparken" next month, one BIG party!

Last summer I met some tourist who thought there was some kind of strange demonstration going on. But now, this is quite common, and even kids in the kindergartens collect "Russe kort", cards with names, photos etc. that most Russ give out!

Have FUN all 4 of you!:)

THIS is a sign of spring, and a HAPPY one!

Four young RUSS have bought this car, here are 3 of them, CHARLOT, SILJE and HANNE (see more info. under the text, next to labels.)

They were out giving the car a fresh coat of paint, to get it ready for their RUSS activities!

Have lots of FUN, and a fabulous time as RUSS!

More "Russ"..... using the McDonalds "drive through". One of the many crazy things they "have to do" in order to earn knots for their hats (like earning points).

Say "Hello" to these 3 young girls, who are all RUSS.

(See the posting from April 26 th. Click on labels RUSS under the text.)

MIRA, HANNA LOUISE, and KAJA AURORA. They have plans for the future, and have so far had FUN doing some of the many crazy things they have to do, to really celebrate!

Eight girls had a red "mini bus" named "Absolut Volkswagen".

They had already done the famous "driving 10 times around a roundabout".....

This weekend they will go to a big Leisure Park where 11.000 RUSS will be partying for several days and nights. Best of luck!!:)

RUSS is what we call young people who are celebrating finishing their 13 years of schooling, culminating in their big day on May 17 th. our Constitution Day. But even now they have started to celebrate. At the petrol station tonight I saw several of the famous red cars.

"Russ" mostly belong to either "Red Russ" or "Blue Russ", depending on the type of education and school that they are from. There is a lot of competition between the red and blue Russ.

This is happening across the whole of Norway.

Have FUN and drive carefully!:-)