Hammer time (São João 2008, Porto)

After a long day in the field, it was time for a little party. We heard about a nice one in Porto including hammers, garlic flower-thingies and a big firework. It has something to do with a guy that lived a long time ago, his name is São João. We took a quick shower and a fast-food diner and took the cars to drive to Porto. There we bought some hammers, “just for fun”.


Picture: field equipment of the day


Movie: The warming up

The metro took us to the centre of Porto. We were in a hurry, because the firework would start at 0:00. The metro was crowded, a lot of people with plastic hammers. When we got out of the metro we followed the other hooligans towards the ribeira. There we saw the firework, it was awesome!



Picture: fireworks



Movie: fireworks

Then we went downstairs and had:
- free sardines and free beers from local people;
- beer
- a lot of slapping with the hammers
- sexy time
- more beer
- more slapping with the hammers
- fun





Picture: Students equiped with hammers




The atmosphere was realy good, it was like queensday in Amsterdam, but then without the queen and orange thingies. However, this party has a lot more interaction with other people. At least 1000 people (most of them females) know now about the students from the VU doing their fieldwork in Portugal!


Movie: Serious hammering

At 7 o’clock we went back to “Barra” for some sleep. This party was the best ever!! Hell yeah.


PS - The final scores:

Maarten "Slotty"_________4954 hits
Roos "Anne"____________1576 hits
Sander "Ze German"______1576 hits
Andres "Lost my Thingie"___16 hits (hammer was lost within 5 minutes)
Lodewijk "Lo"___________5387 hits
Rutger "Fuckin' Anarchist"__5923 hits (including 3 policemen)
Reinert "Muscle Viking"____-46 hits (this boy likes to hit himself)
Lisa "Mona"____________5748 hits
Joanna "That's Nice"______801 hits
Ruben "Player"__________1278 hits (was busy with other thingies)
Rob "didn't show up"________0 hits
Harmen "Mind your Step"__5955 hits