Why Graduating in Germany is COOLER!!!! (My Abitur Experience)
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
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Also quick explanation, I mentioned alcohol multiple times in this video and I feel like it's important to at least note that Germany has pretty loose booze laws for minors. Other than that, most of us are over the age of 18 and you're already allowed to buy certain types of alcohol at the ripe age of 16 - look it up, it's real lmao. Another thing: all of the things done in the video, ESPECIALLY the pranks on the last school day were completely fine with our school administration because this is a yearly tradition. No rules were broken and no people were harmed, if anything, this day was fun for everybody :)
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Yo guys!!! I saw a lot of comments that it‘s also possible to graduate after 9th grade, which is completely true btw!! I somehow forgot to consider other states when making this video, as it‘s kind of not possible to leave school after 9th grade in my state - so thank you for adding that :D
It's possible in every German state to leave 'normal' school after grade 9, but you have to do a year of vocational preparation if the absolute number of years you were at school is less than 10 years and you don't start an apprenticeship or something similar. You could even leave in grade 8 if you have done the required 10 years, but it is not advisable. The only problem is when if you leave before finishing 9th grade you get not even the lowest certificate of graduation.
@@seanthiar wth they didn’t tell us that
In Belgium they have chrimostemos idk if I spelled that correct lol but it’s the last 100 days they can torture us TROW food draw on us tape us to trees whit ductape ,…
@@RingRuru I mean, why would they? It is generally seen as an inadvisable thing to do and especially for children learning at a Gymnasium or equivalent school, it is just about the furthest thing from the stated goal. I imagine that this might be brought up to someone if they are *really* struggling, but it is like telling people training for a job that they could always just apply for unemployment benefits.
@@MajinOthinus Generally speaking they always told us that in my state we have 10 years of „mandatory school“ and after that we can leave. Whacky stuff
I dont know if this is propaganda... but it worked.
Suitcase, train station, Germany.
@@uis246 imagine living in a car only society.
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its sorta cool here tbh bu abitur is really diffuclt
It isn’t. Trust me. Everything said in this video is true
Just imagine the explanation of the people that arrived late at their workplace, "An army of funny looking children with bicycles stormed through the city streets".
stuff like this is an annual tradition, it‘s not a thing where i live but the local commuter population would be aware of it. stuff like this also happens after school, in the afternoon so getting to work isn‘t really a problem
To be fair most "children" are 18 years old, if not older. So they look and are by all intends and purposes funny dressed adults
We Drove Around in a motorcade.
Since its a rural area and the police somethings takes stuff with fun as well, the local traffic cops blocked a crossing so the motorcade could pass it in one go. LAWL
@@wa11ie That's good cause waiting all the students for them to finish crossing would be pain.
God i remember graduating "höhere Handelsschule" fondly to this day. After the ceremony we rented a partybus to a club and our teacher who used to work as a DJ in his youth actually performed for us. These are things that made good memories
YOUR TEACHER WAS A DJ??????
@@RingRuru during university apparently
DAMN they allowed yall to vandalise the school that much??? We couldn't even do half of the things you did (Plus had to clean evvveryyythiing afterwards). But we made our teachers race against eachother so ig that evens it out lol. Grüße aus Österreich und viel Erfolg in Abitur!
Last year's Abitur had the graduates make the PE hall into a Disco at my school.
It varies so much from school to school. Apparently some graduates overdid it quite a bit in the past, so our school became much more strict with what they allowed. The principal didn't even let us choose our Abimotto so we had to settle on some whack "approved" choices.
But we had other plans. On the day prior to the Abistreich, our student representative left the door open to the roof auditorium which lead to a big dusty storage room. During the morning hours we had to vandalize the hallways, we pretended to barricade the staircases with chairs. But in actuality we removed as many chairs from the classrooms as possible without anyone noticing where they went.
Suffice to say that we had to clean up our mess as well. Expect all the damn chairs went missing lmao.
Someone eventually spilled the beans. But a good 2 hours went by with the teachers complaining that they had to grab chairs from other floors when changing classrooms since there simply weren't enough for every student at any given time.
@@HansWurst-lg1ws holy shit bro. Same aswell: why we weren't allowed to vandalise was bc of the past. But yall terrorised the school in a kinda pacifist way lol I respect that
I think its good that there are limits. In a city near me the pupils broke the bathrooms sinks etc.
We let the teachers make an exam with a few easy questions about each subject. Some failed miserably especially the gym teachers
hearing about this and comparing it to my high school experience in America is like staring up from a dark abyss into a vast ethereal plane of positive social experience. I hope college is better lmao congrats on grad
I mean america has its own percs when it comes between schools in Germany we don't have any clubs which is really sad
@@zerotwo2053 they are usually called AGs in germany or Arbeitsgruppen, where you can do Judo, paint or whatever else you want to do. In my Hochschule there also are Studentenverbindungen, like you find in typicall american highschool or college movies where they find some greek letters and call them selves ABC or something.
@@marcusklein227I think your confusing the fraternity system with high school clubs
@@benjaminwinnie4626 no, i know they are separate things, but most of the time, you don't have fraternity houses in germany, atleast in my experience, till i came to my current high school.
The high school clubs are a completely different group. In (Grund/Weiterführenden) Schulen you got the AGs for sports and other interest Groups. They also are in high schools with different name, generally called course, although it isn't necessarily from the high school or university organized.
I live in one of the american southeastern states and I'm currently a senior.
GOod god the graduation requirements they have laid out are distopian.
Can't decorate your cap at all. Not even a "2024" bedazzle. It was to be the regular cap and gown. You can't even change the tassle.
The Valedictorians speech is censored. The district has to approve the speech, and it can't mention anything political. If you try its rejected. "What if the Valedictorian sneaked it into the speech?" The district has a person with a button to cut the mic. THe valedictorian a few years ago tried to talk about abortion rights and womens rights and such (which is a noble message and use of the valedictorian speech), and got cutoff. Her mic just went dead.
You can't wear any shoes except dress shoes/heels. Fair enough I guess but like they don't offer any options for the poorer kids. Want to not be barefoot at your graduation? just buy some $40 to $100 dress shoes you bum.
Theres a bunch of other things you can't do or wear either but Im forgetting them. In general its mostly "waaah the republicans in the state legislature don't want the seniors who are well informed using the graduation ceremony to call them out" or "we must have absolute uniformity in our dress. No fun allowed."
wth that‘s so sad :(
either way, better times are ahead!!!!
They wouldn't even let them throw the fucking cap.
same as the north eastern states tho less strict since the school tend to help those with financial needs
that sounds horrible, I'm sorry . . .
@@finniboy3015 it’s fine tho another year in university then I’ll graduate with my engineering degree
I'm graduating in Germany this year too! (Northern Germany)
Our motto week was two months ago and me and my friends did Charlie & the Chocolate Factory costumes for Dream Team too omg
But for some reason now that written exams are over we still have classes in the subjects we're gonna have our oral exams in?! Which kinda sucks bc motto week was in fact NOT our last week of school (our last full week tho)
Also we still have some time until the whole "vandalizing the school" thing but our school is SUPER strict with it and we have to clean up everything ourselves (which absolutely ruins the fun)
But where i can totally relate is getting wasted lmao
During our motto week we had this assembly where our principal talked about some formality stuff and NO ONE in that room was sober... Our school has threatened to forbid any Abitur celebration traditions multiple times by now 💀
As long as they don't forbid them though graduating in Germany is so much fun! (this is the post written exam high i am experiencing speaking)
Omg yay someone else with a similar experience!!! Good luck on your exams!! and quick tip:
An unserer Schule gibt es seit paar Jahren die Tradition „des goldenen Besens“. Seit Jahren räumen die 11er für die 12er auf, damit die 12er ihren letzten Schultag genießen können. Vielleicht lässt sich bei euch auch was organisieren :)
@@RingRuru Das mit dem Aufräumen mussten wir in der 11ten tatsächlich für die Abiturienten machen, das fand die Schule aber so doof, dass jetzt der Abiturjahrgang alles selbst aufräumen muss (also musste mein Jahrgang den Müll von der Stufe über uns und jetzt auch unseren eigenen entsorgen…) Wirklich unfair :(
Also graduating this year (Northern Germany too haha) and during our Mottowoche, there was literally no day where everybody was sober. Alcohol was smuggled in. We had a party on Thursday where 95% got so wasted, we behaved like dead bodies on the last day💀
Nice Kafka pfp btw👍
As Dreamteam we literally built a Coffin and went as the coffin Dance meme and during Childhood Heroes/Memories in general we had two lego Blocks and me as a Minecraft Villager but after that I missed all 3 of the written exams because of a lung infection and Pfeifers glandular fever (no I didn't have to look up the translation on Google translate)
I did hear of people locking down the school and putting nutella on a teachers car previously but that kinda got banned now sooo.... just the usual stuff now?
Good luck on your graduation, Ruru!
I also live in Germany and for our "Abistreich" we took the headmaster hostage and organised small game competitions in which we competed against our teachers. It was so much fun!
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That sounds awesome!
Graduation in my country is just putting on a white shirt with a picture of whatever you want (as long as it's appropriate) on the back of it and people just write nice messages on your shirt with markers.
literally every public space all over the country, especially places popular with tourists will be full of students in white shirts with scribbles that day. my country is an absolute mess but at least graduation is not boring.
it's happening this Monday. can't wait
So…. What is your country?
@@DanielSousa-le6wv It's Georgia. One of the post soviet countries.
Yoo us too in Italy !! I have so many white shirts from the last days of school.
@@Nikolai4269 that's cool! it happens on the very last day of last grade for us and the event is called "the last bell". So we only experience it once.
My mom still has her shirt from her graduation.
Привет из Украины! У меня в этом году последний звонок!
My American school has Anything but a Backpack day too!! We have "Spirit Week" which is just Motto week but every class year takes part, so we get to do it 4 times in our high school career :D
Some things I've seen so far include:
- WASHING MACHINE (carted it around on a dolly)
- A Canoe/boat /srs
- SEVERAL couches/sofas (usually two people share it as a backpack if they share many classes so they can carry it)
- Spare tire
- THEIR YOUNGER SIBLING (Got sent home)
Me and a friend did a barbecue theme together so we could get into the yearbook, I cleaned and brought my family's outdoor BARBECUE GRILL to use as a backpack, and my friend brought a LAWNMOWER (kept books inside the clippings bag)
as a younger sibling, i giggled
personally i would've brought my older brother instead of a backpack
As someone who is also doing Abi this year it's interesting how much diffrent the traditions are.
We also had our Mottowoche for a full week and before the easter holidays. It's basically like you described it, with the added bonus of partying. After this week we had a couple days before the first exams.
The day we will party is called by us Abistreich and its held after we get our grades. On this day we also vandalize the whole school, but also party with the others. Then we drive on a tractor through the whole city with the other schools. All graduates are btw covered in paint and we colour the other students with it.
Personally Im not a big fan of these traditions because of the loudness. But it's a cool feeling not to wake up monday morning to go to school.
(Übrigens viel Glück beim Mathe Abi. Das schaffst du)
I’m from middle-western Italy: here students graduate in their 5th year of high school (I don’t know the grade equivalent 😅, basically it’s when they’re 18) and the final week for them is the same except: 1) every class decides their themes and two classes can’t share the same one (last is unwritten law, but law non the less) 2) the last school day ends 3 hours early for every class, but that’s only so that the graduating students drive around the school in circles terrorizing the younger students with water buckets and makeshift balloons containing soda (I still feel like it violates some sort of convention)
Bonus) in the school where I go, in the final week graduating classes are allowed to do ANYTHING they want in the schoolyard (for example: last year a class held an actual wedding of two students).
Love your videos, bye
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Io sono Siciliano, Carusi miei!!
Ricordati, Stai Calma, e andrà tutto per il meglio anche con l'ultima verifica di Italiano.
Nel mio caso ho scelto L'argomento di attualità per quanto riguarda whatsapp.
E cavolo! ero esausto... 🥹
@@Valery0p5Toscana :)
@@vvloeyy grazie per la risposta :)
@@Benjymations mbare! :D
2:56 ITS MEEEEE!! MOTHER, YOUR SON IS FAMOUS!!!!
In Germany we say: Mami, ich bin im Fernsehen!!!!
@@tobiturbo08 And in french we say: Maman, je suis sur la tele!
@@KingAmirGuy Je ne pal pas français :(
"Graduated" Year 11 in England last week Friday. After our morning exam, we went around getting our shorts signed all day. Then, after our final assembly, the entire year went to play football at the park - I think I was the last sober one by the end of it.
It's so nice to hear that your Abi went so great! I graduated 2020 so no fun for us unfortunately because of corona :( but i'm very happy for you and good luck with maths, you got this! Grüße aus Deutschland (BaWü):D
Grüße zurück :3
Baden-Wüttemberg represent!!!!
Welp this makes me feel a lot better on going to learn in Berlin lol
BERLIN IS SUPER COOL!!! GOOD LUCK :D
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Berlin 💀💀💀💀💀💀
good luck, may god be with you
Hope you make it out man ♥
Hope you will have a fun graduation, im from Berlin, and we never had a graduation like shown, we only got the certificate and some congratulations...
honestly kursstufe is such a funny experience in general
its like the time where all the angsty teenagers slowly start to find themselves so despite everything getting harder the vibes are just way nicer and there was a much greater sense of community within class (or maybe i just got lucky with my class idk) so even though the classes themselves are harder everything feels so much more relaxed
i actually barely struggled with my final exams despite being worried about not passing throughout the entire last 2 years but somehow ended up passing easily with little effort
I'm from Austria and here we just do something called a Maturastreich which in the school I graduated from as per tradition is some flavour of water-guns, an inflatable pool, these do not cross tape thingies, vandalizing the teacher parking space and a firetruck-hose alongside with copius amounts of alcohol and grilled sausages that would be shared with the other kids (Provided they were 16 or older (Legal drinking age in Austria) for the alcohol)
That is to this day (Half a decade after graduation) the only time I got up for something at 3 am and did not regret it. (Filling the entire teacher parking lot with filled water-cups, filling an inflatable pool, rolling a hay-bale in front of the entrance and setting up I don't know how many foldable benches and tables took VERY long. We also had a few people who had important jobs and thus weren't allowed to get drunk, which coincidentally overlapped perfectly with every designated driver. My job was to make sure nobody shot water at the hay-bale, the grill onto the guy who carried whatever the kids coming to school handed him that couldn't get wet (Books, phones, laptops, etc, etc) or into the school which I managed to do mostly successfully. The guy who ended up squirting the grill-guy ended up having to go to McDonalds for lunch because he wouldn't get a sausage so that probably helped discourage people.
Edit: We actually do this AFTER graduation is done and we have our Matura so there's not even a way for the teachers to retaliate.
Oh and there's even a school organized and sponsored party the day we get our Maturas. I will never forget the look of regret on our vice principals face when someone from another class hugged him over the shoulder, absolutely wasted and slurred ", gemma saufn!!!!" (Gemma saufn loosely translates to "Let's get wasted)
gemma saufn 😭
Na bitte ned 😩. Maturastreich entwickelt si immer so schnell in an Bürgerkrieg 😂
in our school they just terrorize the lower classes (us) for a week and party in a big room
I'm also graduating in Germany this year! (13th grade)
Our Mottowoche was just last week, but some, almost half of the graduees didn't feel like coming any day :( Tbh, I also had only been there on two days because most of my friend group decided not to go and I knew it would barely be any fun without them.
In general, my last year of school wasn't that much fun regarding special events. Our graduation trip went downhill pretty fast when, right off the bat, our bus driver hit a car in Italy while trying to find a parking spot, and then the hotel we were in was not in great condition, so we decided to leave a day early (health and safety reasons).
We have so many restrictions for our Abistreich, too, probably everything you described isn't allowed in our school because former students went overboard some years ago.
Well, written exams are a matter of the past now, and that's what counts 😅
Hope the remaining weeks will be fun, peace out,
fellow graduee Spiks
What do you mean written Exams are a thing of the past? Ihr habt nur noch mündliche Prüfungen oder wie??????
@@Mulmgott Nein, ich meine einfach nur wir als Jahrgang sind durch mit allen schulischen schriftlichen Prüfungen jemals
when i first was at my gymnasium, i was suprised seeing Mario and Kakashi Hatake casually carrying a Table
This vid hits me right through the soul, had to leave school few months before the 12th grade ended. Hurts too much to watch, but still congratulations for your graduation and hope you had a fun time
Woah this sounds super similar to what we do in Finland 🇫🇮, there's a bunch of theme days and at the end of the week we go around terrorizing the first years (drawings on their faces, throwing confetti etc). We get to wear big white jumpers that are coated in drawings and some people cosplay, there's a ceremony where everyone gets a title like "craziest drinker" "smartest student" "most school days missed". And then after the ceremony we ride in big trucks whilst throwing candy at unsuspecting bystanders 👍
Oh and if you're graduating in 4 years instead of 3 (so like 13th grade) you get to do it twice
Ohhh we have titles/ rankings too!! But they‘re in the yearbook :D
I’m from Paraguay. We do things a little bit different here (mainly cuz most schools require you to wear uniforms ?) but on your first and last day of 12th year you will normally party with your classmates, do a huge sleepover at someone’s house where no one sleeps and arrive to school completely wasted in a party bus with neon shirts and wigs and stuff. Shooting foam at the graduates is also tradition and after my last first day (first day of 12th grade) I had to mentally recover from all the foam to be able to attend my last last day (last day of 12th grade).
Normally some schools will have more leniency with the uniform code during these days, but most still require you to have at least 1 recognizable item from your regular uniform but this is more of a challenge to most students than an actual rule (I had the tie with the school’s logo on my head on the first day and a completely destroyed dress shirt with the school logo on the last day). Sometimes there’s alcohol and a continuation of the party at school, sometimes there isn’t.
It’s also common for all the students at your school (most schools here start on kindergarten) to make a line usually starting with the kindergarteners and ending with the 11th graders leading you either to your class or to the backyard or somewhere else. There’s also a marching band usually with drums and shit.
While it is not precisely tradition, some teachers like to attend the last last day parties with their students before school, or at least the first hours of it. These are usually the graduating class godparent teachers (we name 2 teachers to be our “godparents” and they give us gifts at prom).
Also, it’s tradition (at least at my school) to paint the best graduate (the one that gives the speech at graduation and all that) with neon paint before arriving to school, and sometimes the best graduate changes throughout the year so it’s a different person on the last first day and on the last last day. On the first day I was the prospective best graduate so I arrived to school completely soaked in pink paint, but during the year my best friend got better grades than I did and became the best graduate so I poured a bucket of blue paint over her head before we headed into school.
What a wonderful channel, you got my sub! I live in the German country of NRW and our traditions differ a bit from yours. I also graduate this year. We actually visit the lower classes every day at motto week, we just have to ask the teachers before. Because of the exam structure, we startet on Friday the week before with our first motto in order to get our five days. My coolest costumes where Senku Ishigami from Dr. STONE with "childhood heros" and and a bowser head that I made in like 5 hours out of colored cardboard and glue with our motto: "mABIo kart". At our last day we built a racetrack through the school, starting with a underwater track in the basement and ending with a rainbow road. My job was to be a bodyguard for the teachers and keep them out of their enterance, that was very cool. We also put thousands of cups filled with water in the teacher's room and filled a whole room with straw. While the grade under us cleaned everything, we held a gameshow outside with a stage that we built the night before with teachers and students from our grade. The finale was a battle in mario kart, fitting to our motto. We don't do the bike stuff, that seems like a very, very local event but it's surely entertaining. We also weren't allowed to throw water at kids because there where problems in the past with this.
@Corrupted__User Yeah same. I graduated from "Realschule", a middle school that ends with 10th grade in Germany and we also did a motto week. But as far as I experienced it, our motto week in 12th grade was far greater than in 10th grade.
i’m from Germany (specifically in the Northwest) too and graduated last year in 10th grade and all of this is true, i had the motto week as well and like how it said in the video, we absolutely vandalized our school a day before the final day too, building chair pyramids in front of gates, throwing toilet paper and newspaper shreds everywhere, putting tables in weird and silly places and positions, throwing candy everywhere and much more, seeing the teachers and younger students reactions on the last day was absolutely priceless especailly when we sprayed them with water guns 😭😭 i wanna go back just for that day tbh AHAHAHA
oh and the graduation party/prom was fun too, and it was actually on my 18th birthday!! :]
The Dutch school system works in a similar fashion, can’t wait to finally be done with it
Just not as fun in graduation, wish my school did stuff like this
That's a pretty cool tradition! Here in the states you often hear about highschool seniors doing pranks and partying, but it's never really organized from my experience. I don't really know, since I never really participated much sadly.
Thanks for sharing, and hope you have fun creating more videos, or whatever else you want to do in this space!🙏
I live in Germany too!! Right after the exams finish, our tradition is to throw down worksheets and anything that is paper from the top floor to the main entrance, which is right below the huge staircase. They were up there screaming, basically throwing a party and singing every song you could think of while the other kids casually stepped on their math equations and paragraphs. It was absolutely amazing
Grüße aus Nordrhein-Westfalen!!
Graduating soon as well (Northern Germany)
I can heavily relate with a lot of the things that happened in your Mottowoche. In my school the Abiulk is not placed on the same day as the last day of the Mottowoche and is a few days before prom. Since we have a Abi-Motto it is custom at our school that on the last day we dress up as our Abi-Motto (in our case we collectively decieded to go for "ABIvengers", i. e. everybody dresses up as marvel characters.
But I'm really hyped for our Abiulk. Since I'm from a area with a lot of farms we planned to get a lot of hay bales from the farms of some of our fellow students and use them to block off the parking lot for the teachers. I might update this comment after we did this :)
As a Graduaded High-Schooler and Uni student,
There is a total difference between these 2 schools.
Here in Italy, I experienced the Liceo Artistico (Artistic High School) and learned so many multimedia activities, well, i have seen lots of my classmates who didn't know how to edit a video with premiere pro or animate in adobe animate.
I even hated math and physics, especially the professor it self who does nothing but screaming and forced us students to do what she's saying.
Thankfully, I passed my 1st high school exam with the Tema Di Italiano (Italian literacy test). Then the 2nd High school exam we created an animated an opening intro about the kitchen chef. Finally, we did the final High School exam. I talked about one of my professors about WW2, and so many other artists subjects, so right after I explained with confidence in front of them and asked me "What do you want to do in Life?" I said, "I want to become a pixar animator." They were surprised happily about it. Even today, I'm still studying in University nowadays and still have a goal to get a Batchelor's degree in New Technology of arts. Hopefully, the Pixar Team will have a free room for my future occupation eventually.
Anyway Ruru, You can do it, you're only one exam away!
best of luck!!
She condensed school life pretty accurately at the beginning there lol 😂 And overall explained graduation in Germany really well! Definitely worth a sub from me 👍
Oh, Abiturstreich at my school was a lot more harmless. Apart from dressing up and terrorizing each class with loud music, there was drawing on other people’s faces with lipstick and the like, spraying others with water guns (no guns allowed at school, normally), having everyone gather in the sports hall to watch the graduates play ball in costumes, and the most ridiculous thing I saw was a video transmission into the school’s big hall where we gathered for events where they showed one of the shorter teachers taped to the wall. It looked like a colorful cocoon, and her feet didn’t touch the ground. It was absurd.
So, in summary, the graduates were allowed to get creative, but everyone low-key feared the janitor so things never got too extreme.
At our school we had the tradition of meeting up at Alexanderplatz (Berlin) and walking to our school which is like 16 km from there.
It goes without saying that we got a b s o l u t e l y wasted hammered on the way. It‘s tradiditionally on night before the last day of Motto Week when you get all your exam instructions and have a rehearsal for the Graduation ceremony. Some people vomitted on the stage, others slept through the whole procedure, it was wild.
Sadly though, our school prohibits the Abistreich after students got covered in paint and the floors were underwater. :(
we have a similar tradition here in Turkey.
it’s called ‘veda’ which means last goodbye.the graduating students who usually don’t come to school in the upcoming months of the school year come for a last time and camp outside the school building so they can trow shaving cream and water to any body that is trying to escape the school without getting covered in shaving cream. they also bring flags and flairs so it becomes a battlefield and always traumatizes the new students.
Ah, the memories.
I'm honestly kinda shocked your Mottowoche didn't include first school day! That's like the whole reason to save your Schultüte!
For our Abistreich, I still remember clearly that I had scoped out the master password handed to the teachers for access to the school network which allowed me and a couple of friends to remotely flash a completely non functional OS image onto all but one of the school's common use computers that would just display a collection of videos we had created lol. We handed the recovery instructions and password to one of the 11th graders with instructions not to divulge them until at least a two days after the end of the holidays.
Thanks for an other fun video. I had no idea about the cool traditions over there.
Graduation is incredibly boring in the states in comparison, there are supposed to be "senior pranks" but it was pretty tame when I was at school. They just filled the commons area with balloons for a day... I also graduated from college this year but I didn't even go to the ceremony because it's super lame.
Anyway, good luck on your last exam!
Hi from Brazil! I discovered your channel before yesterday and I immediately loved it, i hope I could have a graduation that fun. For now I'm having a great time in school and at the end of next year I hope all of my friends celebrate in a prom! Sorry if my English is a bit bad. Thank you or obrigado
God damn I really do live in a dystopia! I wish I could have done even half the things you do up there! Another reason to move to Germany I guess lmao
Best wishes from America!
That last week of school was so fun and I really wish we could've gotten a day more! I love that you made this video to recap some of the things that happened haha
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Someone came with a wheelbarrow to anything but backpack at our school. Wish you best of luck for your remaining oral exam, I had my last one two weeks ago :D
I'm here 1 minute after the video is out (I turned the notification bell, absolutely worth it)
We have the rock hard candy throwing at small kids thing in Finland too!
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Queen of the Vandals, but she's back 😅
Man the last day of school was an absolute blast. Best last day of school ever. I'm sad for people who have boring graduations, you worked for ~12 years of your life on your degree, I say you get to have a little bit of fun!
GIVE IT UP FOR G9 *Muffled screams of suffering because we have to go through year 13 as well* but congrats on the abitur, your mottowoche sounds more fun that this years mottowoche at my school, both the principal and stellvertreter hate the pranks and noise the graduates are trying to make so we get to see costumes and that’s basically it
I have Motto Week and everything in about a Month and the Ideas that came together for the last school day were actually wild. I’m talking renting Camels, one of those bull rodeo thingys and filling the entire school with fake snow. Unfortunately we weren’t able to push any of those Ideas through but I love that after years of academical torture they let you have fun and vandalize the school for a day. One of the rare decisions I applaud the German education system for (well at least the Schools that allow it).
8:01 that sounds really fun actually i wanna do that!! 😭
Traditions definitely differ by city/region. We had motto days twice a week over multiple weeks and no bike parade. It is also a constant struggle with school administration what is allowed during chaos day. For our chaos day everyone had those white painter onesies and we plastered the windows with old pages from our school notes/exercises.
I live in Austria but they do the same freaking thing! We had to once find another way to go into the school amd there was alcohol everywhere. The men were wearing suits and the girls wore pretty dresses. My english teacher was also participating and she told us all about it.
A 9th grader from berlin here: The called Abistreich is just pure fun. 1. Single. Day. No. School. You have a blast there. I experienced it 3 times (In berlin we get in gymnasium in the 7th grade) and it was nice. I am talking about illegal shopping cart races, towers of tables, karoake with a guy being got applauded for singing tequila, and our room also being wrapped in alu foile. And a fridge in the Math room? It was a blast.
Dann ein paar nette Worte an dich: Hoffe zumindestens dein Abistreich hat dir gefallen. Gott und euch danke das wir wegen Mündlichen Abi Prüfungen am Montag-Mittwoch frei haben :D und freue dich auf die Abschlussfeier. Laut Freunden die jetzt 2 Jahre Abi haben wird da viel getanzt, gesoffen, gesungen. Starte in ein gutes Leben mit deinem (hoffentlich) gutem Abi Schnitt.
P.S: Bitte Terrorisiert keine 5 Klässler, die Armen sind gerade mal 11
Вау, я тоже выпускаюсь в этом году.
У нас такое бывает в некоторых школах, но большинство просто устраивают большой "Последний звонок" с вальсом и поздравлениями, и выпускной с вечеринкой в банкетном зале. У нас конкретно мы потом поедем на 2 дня на Байкал(озеро) продолжать веселиться
i wish i could casually go to the baikal lake wtf 😭
байкал звучит круто, удачи и хорошо провести время!
не знаю как у всех но по моей практике что в 9м, что в 11м классах банкеты были просто как обычные корпоративы ну и может кого-то поздравляли и давали благодарственные грамоты родителям
опыт никакой практически, что грустно, но надеюсь у других лучше, хотя бы в рф
рад смотреть и слышать от других людей какие они воспоминания сохранили с выпускных 😊
@@RingRuru он в 2 часах езды на машине, но да, это весьма приятный бонус Бурятии
I have no idea why youtube recomended me this, but I have to admit that it's funny and interesting to watch. Not to mention this animations. What can I say?
Спасибо за видео. Удачи и всё такое)
Lol, your local town tradition w. the bicycles sounds funny as hell.
I graduated 2019, luckily before Covid.
It was same as yours minus a proper ABI STREICH, cuz the last year had totally overdone it and the principal forbade our year to do sth. crazy.
- We just invited all pupils in the school hall and tried, *tried*, to rally them to do the Kurdish circle dance w. us
Fun time.
Our graduation was less exciting (unfortunally we hadn't a bike prarade), but a very fun Mottowoche and Akademische Feier and Abiball. A former teacher ,who we all adore, even returned from Romania to us graduate and party with us. (many got wasted those evenings, it's Germany afterall :) ).
-anyways, congratulation to all graduates of 2024 and the Abiturjahrgang 2024 in Germany :D
Ringruru sunflower dress 💅
Glad that you had an awesome last day at school. My last day began with what I can only describe as "forgetting my head while getting out of bed" immediately followed by a loud crack and about a week of pain and a very stiff neck.
guys its propaganda
Ha?
Our abi class this year put tiny rubberducks everywhere and there’s still a duck stuck on the wall of our philosophy classroom.
I’m very hyped when our Abi is coming up!
Yo! After hearing this, I think my graduation will just suck, especially in my country... I'm glad for you that in your country it's not just the prom and nothing more
That sounds so fun. I'm doing abi next year and in our school the abi streich is kind of forbidden or well very limited. Apperently some Students rly crossed the line some years before. We also have Mottowoche tho ,i hope my year will participate ,since we occasionally also do motto days for everyone and there noone from my year rly does anything. Never heard of the bike thing tho. But we will probably just go to the nearby parc known as a party area and celebrate there even tho my year is rather nerdy and they dont rly do anything. But i will be very happy to finally get out of school,there is nothing i hated more in life than school. It is definetly interesting to hear about your experience, thank you for sharing it with such a cute video
Your videos were already high quality before, but this is absolute fire 🔥 Even the comedic timing is great. 10/10 Rurutainment
My Abitur was during 2020, so I sadly did not have this experience. Its great to hear that the newer classes get to do this again! :D
5:59 last time that happened our 13th grade came in our room, jumped on the tables, shot around with water guns, broke two iPads (including mine TvT), threw with candy, played super loud rock music and just- disappeared after
I really love your art style, it’s easy to get jealous of artists lol. I like watching the videos especially since I’ll be in Germany for vacation soon, keep it up your videos are great
You're lucky, cause while you got to have this fun, I (in Serbia) get to sit in school with the most boring teacher who doesn't even let us use our phones for 2 weeks straight doing quite basically nothing, just wasting our time! 🎉🎉🎉
Also, just to let you know, for this "block education" (what the 2 weeks are called officially) we are split into 3 groups, and the 2nd group was listening to Rammstein (among other music) and playing games, and the 3rd group usually wasn't even there
Update: its the last day and we're having a party actually, so yeah, I'll take it
Our school used to have a day to just let us be menaces. BUT THEY GOT RID OF IT LIKE LAST YEAR SO I CAN'T EVEN DO IT
It's kind of the same in Denmark when graduating from 9'th grade. We dress up the the weirdest thing we can, throw candy at children while making them sing a song, spray water on the students, play a game of round ball (baseball is the American version) with the teachers (who are wearing the costumes we gave them) then we go to a forrest and drink💯
Congratulations! See ya on the german university. It will be also great!
I really like the General video:
The way she sits ,the color scheme, the voice fits the character
Really brings the whole vibe together
I’m getting into Qualifikationsphase soon so it’s very fun to watch these videos to know what awaits there XDD Would love to see more about it all!!
For someone who is in the process of completing their Abitur in Germany also RIGHT NOW, this was a very nice video to watch and relatable. So let me share my own experience:
We had the following Mottowoche Themes: Basic School (Grundschule). I came with old outfits and a old backpack from school. , Child Hero (Kindheitsheld) and I dressed up as Fireman Sam from a TV Show. Originally I wanted to dress up as someone from Star Wars, but I couldn't get a costume for that in time : /. But I did end up finding two friend of mine with cheap Star Wars Costumes and a lightsaber and I had a little duel, cind of XD. One of my friends from my class dressed up as the pink haired girl from the Lazy Town show. It was a nice costume. Overall, everyone had nice costume.
Then we had Genderswap and anything but a backpack, just like you. When I first heard that that was our motto, I was a bit worried, like how do I dress up as a Girl without it being way to cringe when taking the train to school and back? In the end, I got some help from my Mom and wore a dress of her, which ended up looking cinda nice. But, it ended up as not feeling cringe at all in the train station as I simply wore my large coat over the dress. About the backpack thing, well, it wasn't that easy for me and I didn't get as creative as you did. Seriously, a CEREAL BOX as a backpack? Lol, what a nice idea. My stuff would have never have fit in that.
Overall, it was suprising to see my classmates or rather "Stufenkameraden", because we are not in classes anymore, in a bunch of outfits I'd never had seen them in. Amazing to see all the creative dressing ideas and to be creative yourself. And of course the walking in with a loud music box, dancing and freeing the children from classes was nice. One time me and my mates had gathered like 50 Students or so on the schoolyard and taken them for a short journey. We got to do that during the mottowoche and not during the abigag.
The last school day for you was totally different from ours. We simply continued the motto I talked about before but mainly we had to prepare out Abigag that was on the next day. Abigag is basicly a funny and trolly event where we can do jokes and decorate the school.
At first, we would have been absolutely restricted because: The Abigag from the level above us was a disaster for our director because a few students had done damage to property. Many chairs and tables were also placed in the corridors, one even on the roof at the edge and smartboards were somehow damaged. I don't know the exact details, but it was shocking nonetheless.
However, our Abigag was totally different and much more positive. We convinced our director and our teachers through our cindness and abilities bit by bit to allows us more access to the school. We couldn't get in the classrooms because of the smart boards, but could decorate almost every hallway in the school.
Our Motto was "Mabiokart - nach Zwölf Runden endlich im Ziel" which basicly means MABIokart, after twelves rounds finally at the finish line. Our Abigag was amazing and liked by the teachers. We had a racing road with different stages drawed and fenced off with the tape with strypes on the schoolyard. There our teachers drove with bob karts through different stages, had to answer questions, move through obstacles and hit cans. My German Teacher, which I will have a oral exam in 2 days by the way, but it'll be fine, also took part and drove the bob kart. We had two teams of 5 or 6 teachers competing against each other in not only the race, but other games. Like one was about guessing from which teacher a certain quote came. We also had cind of a obstacle course in our old sportshall and it was filled with shredded worksheets, exams and such. We also had a hallway segment filled with balloons and hallways filled with decorations fitting to certain levels in Mario Kart.
The school ended up not damaged at all and, of course the janitor was still not happy, but the level under us managed to clean the school quite swiftly. After the Abigag concluded and after some time we went to party with other Abitur people from other schools in our city. It ended up not being worth the 10 € but it was nice to talk with other my our school and hang out with them nonetheless. As to why we did this, because we got lucky and had the beginning of vacation days right after the Motto Woche. Only then, after that, came 1 week of exam preparation and then the final exams started flowing in one after the other, week by week.
I am almost done, one oral exam this Wednesday, then potentially a couple oral exams depending on if I want to or have to, but I don't think I will have to.
Then, I am FREEEEE!!!!
By the way, I really like your artstyle, its cute; and I'd appreciate a response, no I demand a response XD and I hope you enjoyed reading my comment. Also, tell me what you think of our Abigag.
Greetings from Star Wars Expert
Its insane how the the perception of graduation in germany differs from person to person, for me it actually was the worst experience i ever had in my life :)
Ich hab jetzt auch das Abitur hinter mir! Ist schon n bischen gruselig nicht mehr zur Schule zu müssen. Fand ich eigentlich immer ganz entspannend.
Congratulations! Happy to hear, that your experience has been that special and fabulous (FAR more elaborate than mine about 13 years ago, btw.). Best regards from the Allgaeuer Alps (southwestern Bavaria).
That all sounds so wild xD also, CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Here is how the last day of my graduation week went in 2018:
We had a rave inside of the school building while everybody else had a normal school day. That's it. A proper rave starting at 8 am. We had a DJ, a stage, a dancefloor, bouncers, a lighting system, a professional sound system, a fricking fog mashine and we dressed as 80s party goers with lot's if neon. Of course we had black lights too.
The day before we transformed the whole building, like covering up the big windows and stuff, constructing the stage and so on. Every graduade arrived at school early the next day. We blocked the main entrance and guided every student and teacher to the back entrance where our bouncers waited for them (we greeted them with a big "boom box" of course, all dressed up). The bouncers also where graduades of course and they fittet the students with neon light bracelets and gave them some neon make up before entering. So for the first couple of hours we had the whole school legit partying inside of the building.
The headmistress and janitor where the only people in on the joke because we needed their help. Let alone to enter and leave the school building way before and after official opening hours.
Save to say we had a blast! The neighbours must've had one too, I guess.
Edit: Our school only hosted classes from 11th to 13th
3:59 I was so confident it was gonna be a pillows case😭
5:31 for me the best day was the day I took my last oral exam, aced it (tbf it was Religion which is notorious for being easy) and afterwards the entire grade plus 10-15 teachers went to one classmate's garden plot to drink and BBQ. I was one of the last few to leave at 7AM and just walked back home in the pleasant morning sun. The feeling of getting the good grade combined with the satisfaction to have finally made it after the 2 years of covid plagued Abijahre just made the already good mood so much better to me, that I still get goosebumps thinking about the day 3 years later. The Abiball was a joke compared to that day.
edit: maybe I should add that I'm from Baden-Württemberg so that last exam was in mid July
I have no idea how but you made that sound so poetic
Going to a Gesamtschule is even better. You get to have 2 Motto weeks, depending on if you go up to get your Abitur. But my school can't do most of the fun stuff anymore for reasons...
here in italy there's just a day in which everyone dunks everyone in whater until the head principal truns of the whater in the hole bullding lol
Incredibly relatable throughout and that ain't a bad thing lmao
Didn't know you before, very cool artstyle too!
Kinda interesting to see how similar it was on a grammar school in Lower-Saxony.
We also didn't spray any water cuz it was too cold (we were actually told not to do so by email xD),
we weren't nearly as creative with wasting the school tho, mostly it was these paper streamers, balloons, clingfilm, stickers and the biggest part was newspapers strewn across the floor and taped to the walls.
However, rather than just wasting the school on Abigag/Abistreich the 13th graders built up some small games and like fun challenges all over the school property, from things like Mariokart wii 1v1 to some more sport/movement style challenges.
The 13th graders split up in groups and were assigned one of the lower classes which they guided to all these stations and at the end of the day one of the classes was declared winner. That was also pretty cool.
We did also run through the classrooms with bluetooth speakers and so on, but, for a reason I can't quite remember, we only had 3 days of Motto Week...
I can also say that there was consumption of alcohol even on the days of the Motto-Week or Abigag xD
Even tho its not been long at all since my graduation I'm not sure if Abigag was a separate day or if it was one of the days of Motto Week lol
Did you also have a whole trip with your last grade? If so where did you go for your Abifahrt?
Great Video!
und viel Glück bei der letzten Klausur! ^^
Dankeschön ^^
I feel like the thing that says the most about graduation in america is that my mom was surprised that I'd rather go to my brother's graduation than a campout with a group I always had a mental breakdown on campouts with.
I'm from Germany, too. I graduated in 2020, so we had none of that stuff. And if we had, you couldn't pay me to spend any more time with my classmates than I had to lol.
I'm now happily studying Game Design surrounded by amazing people :)
I am currently a 9th grader in germany (northern germany), and I am very excited to do this stuff when I'm in 12th grade. This year was so messy too. When I came to school this year, all students already had to fight to get into the building. There were spider weebs, sticky notes and toilet paper everywhere. I remember that last year when we entered our class rooms (after fighting ourselves through the hallways) , we had to organize the rooms for 15 minutes, because they had moved all the chairs and tables. In one room there were only cairs, in one only tables and in the other nothing. Some of the classrooms were even completely taped in police tape. In my school, the 12th graders always organize a program where the teachers are forced to play games with them. Like all sorts of games. For example: They had to guess sins of some students, they were competing in sports activities and more. This year, some of the teachers had to cat walk on a red carpet. They were even dressed up. I remember me and my friends laughing so hard that our bellys hurt. One year, they put some teachers in shopping carts and pushed them to the venue. This year, it was sadly held inside because it was bad weather outside, so they had some limitations. But still, I love how these events always take up a lesson ( I had no biology, so I did not write a scheduled exame hehe). The motto week is always really fun. They always pull up in the funniest costumes. This year, there was one theme, where they dressed up as elderly people, and one of the students put on a mask, by which I got so freaked out. In my opinion, this week is one of the most fun for all the other students. I am already excited for next year.
This just makes me miss germany, i moved out so ill never experience a german graduation😭
Yeah i was so confused when i experienced all this for the first time in 5th grade... Crazy to think about that i get to do all that too next year!!
I’m from America and some of the graduating things were actually really fun. Along with class wide graduation parties and senior ball, We had a senior ditch day, were people drive to the beach, have house parties, go to the city, and generally get into Ferris Buller-type shenanigans (I just had picnic and hung out with my friends a few towns over lol). There was also a senior prank day which sounds pretty similar, people would sit in the middle of hall ways, tailgate in front of the school, pie the principal, tp all the trees, climb on top the buildings to throw water balloons, and pyramid stack chairs in the middle of the school. Our class also had a carnival night after graduation to curb the sheer amount of unsafe partying that usually happens on graduation night.
this year our Abschluss is so much shorter plus our "Mottotag" is only one day! one! and i had a good fit planned.
ok thanks for the idea for next year to throw candies at the children.
that sounds just lovely, congratulations of graduating!
a few years back the grads of my school broke into the teachers lounge and pissed in their coffe machines. Since then the "Abi-Streiche" are heavily monitored and very tame in our school
I graduated in 2022 in Berlin ^^ I have never even heard about the bicycle thing before, but it sounds so epic! Wish I could have done that too :) Also, Good luck on your exam, you got this!
I think how much you're allowed to do depends on the principal. At my school the principal didn't even allow the students to play music during recess this year. Last year when I graduated, however, the principal was on vacation and the vice-principal on paternity leave. The vice-vice-principal, who was in charge, really didn't giva a shit, so we basically had the best Abistreich in the history of our school. Inside the the main building we had a bouncy castle, a sea of balloons, all the furniture from the other school building (lots of hard work getting them there) and even a broken car (with well functioning horn) that someone got from the junk yard and pushed into our school. Someone also ordered 2 tons of sand to make a beach in the schoolyard. the entire school was unrecognizable when we were done and we made sure that none of the other students would learn something that day other than how to party.
Our Mottowoche was Overdressed, Rocker, First School Day, Ballermann and "Komm blau, sei blau"("come blue, be blue". Being blue means being drunk instead of depressed in Germany.) We did a party in a village close to where the school is so basically noone went home and we all just got completely hammered on thursday and stayed that way until saturday. It was really fun.
I‘m almost done with my Abitur this year in Baden-Württemberg(south west germany)
We only started celebrating after the last Abitur exam was written. On that last day we all met up, put tape on our cars spelling „ABI 24“ and drove around the city honking, speeding and clogging up roundabouts. We generally annoyed everyone on the street. The police didnt do much because it’s annual lol. I was driving with my friend on that day because I still dont have my license…
We will have our Mottowoche after the whitsun vacation (Pfingstferien which is rn).
After that we also plan to „vanadalize“ stuff at our school and I‘m supposed to be part of the team who organize that event (we still didnt plan anything and school ends for us in 5 weeks xd).
After that I still have to take 2 oral exams (mündliche prüfungen) in july. When I’m finally done with these I will be free from school.
And then we will have our prom and then all go our seperate ways.
Also good luck with your drivers license! I paid over 3000€ for it so far and I‘m almost done
I live in NRW and in our city instead of bikes the students drive their cars in a brigade throughout the whole city all while honking the whole time. The cars are usually decorated with glitter and posters of the Abi year/motto and the
students often sit in the windows of the cars and blast loud music for the whole city to hear.
Same thing with our Abistreich. Instead of water buckets, students come into the classrooms of the lower grades and blast loud music, step on tables, write stuff on the whiteboards etc. all while being dressed as the motto weeks theme of the day.