By Ekin Karasin For Mailonline. The 'russ' teenagers buy enough beer to level a biker club, and commission crude songs to soundtrack their blowouts in the hedonistic day rite of passage before they graduate from Norway's high schools. Dressed in red and blue overalls bearing the Norwegian flag, the youngsters flood peaceful town streets by day and party at night with a level of drunken revelry that tips the international scale until Constitution Day on May Teenagers dance and celebrate the end of their classes, in Aalgaard, Norway.
One young woman dressed in just black underwear and plimsolls reclines on a desk as she sips a bottle of wine during the hedonistic day rite of passage before she graduates from high school. A trio of students dressed in customised red tracksuits and sunglasses pose with their new purchases for the month-long festivities - including a pink phallic-shaped pinata.
Raucous revellers gather in front of professionally painted double-decker buses, blasting specially commissioned music tracks from six-foot speakers that take them to a three-day festival by the icy North Sea. Dressed in red and blue overalls bearing the Norwegian flag, the youngsters flood peaceful town streets by day.
But we have the craziest celebrations here in Norway,' said Fredrik Helgesen, a student leader of the 'russ' committee at a school west of Oslo. Students are set increasingly difficult challenges as the weeks go on, which could include drinking 24 beers in 24 hours, downing booze with tampons in your mouth, having sex outdoors or kissing a police officer.
They are awarded trophies - often just paperclips that you tie to your hat for every task they complete. The biggest bash happens each year at Kongeparken, a theme park on the outskirts of oil-rich Stavanger. During a three-day festival - think California's famed Coachella transported from the desert to the snaking fjords by the icy North Sea, Norway's biggest music acts perform for 13, teens ready to rave at all costs. Here, professionally painted coaches and double-decker buses line up, blasting specially commissioned music tracks from six-foot speakers or park in rings rigged with shared lighting, sound systems and DJs to create mini outdoor dance stages.
