Schlossfest & Schneckenhof
Jared Pelletier
Since arriving to Germany on Tuesday, Amanda and I have had the enjoyable experience of attending two large parties at the Mannheim University. On Thursday we went to a party called Schneckenhof and yesterday we went to arguably the biggest party of the year, Schlossfest. Let's just say that a lot of good beers were crushed both nights. I was told that at this last Schneckenhof, which goes down every Thursday in one of the palace courtyards, there were 3000+ students just raging to some early 2000s Pop music (I can confirm that Amanda and I were part of this count). This could only be topped by Schlossfest which was spread out over the entire palace. Schlossfest included live music, fireworks just over the palace grounds, another Schneckenhof sub-party and tons of beer. Fortunately we were able to catch the 2am tram heading back to our apartment, where we were reunited with half a pizza we didn't demolish earlier in the day.
So far the party scene has been awesome and we are both looking forward to losing even more sleep on account of it!
Jared
(I snagged the photo from the Schlossfest 2015 Mannheim facebook group; all of the nightime shots I take with my phone look worse than a MagicEye)