Buscading

A student of the Faculty of Science celebrates graduation by 'buscading' around Malta including the foyers of the main political parties. From Rantings from Afar:

..So Wednesday morning, bright and early, saw us meeting up at the university entrance, to deck out the bus, and get prepared for BUSCADING! (PS…I’ve been told that carcaading is a Mediterranean thing…I though everyone would know what it is, since here we do it for everything and anything! But here is an explanation.) On our bus we were the graduates from the Faculty of Science, but other students who had graduated with us, the Engineering and IT students, and the Pyschology students (don’t know when they graduated) were also at the entrance, preparing for buscading…

..Being close to the headquarters of both political party, the next pit stops where there…first the Nationalist party headquarters as it was closest…the buses dropped us off outside, and in we went (unlike JC, where they expect us to go and so there was security there which closed the gates immediately as we approached, no one was expecting us here, so we just walked in, shouting, whistling and in general making a whole lot of chaos :). There was one lone security guy, who couldn’t do much. Then, the general secretary of the party, Paul Borg Olivier, came down to congratulate us and try to get us to go out as calmly as possible. We had much more stops to do, so after a while, off we went.

Next stop…Labour Party headquarters, which is just round the corner. As at the PN headquarters, there was one lone security guy, who didn’t do much to prevent more than 100 students from getting in. After a while then, the leader of the Labour party, Joseph Muscat, came down (with a photographer) to congratulate us, shake our hands (use the situation for a photo op) and get us on our way. Here is the resulting article on l-Orrizont, the PL newspaper. We also appeared on the PN newspaper, in-Nazzjon!

From there it was off to Valletta. First stop…the Office of the Prime Minister at Auberge the Castille. There we were prevented from entering. I was quite suprrised at the rough way the police treated us…even as we were going down the stairs, and not doing any threat of entering, they pushed us roughly. As a group we were not intent on doing any damage, and everywhere we went we didnt stay too long…we were only intent on making some noise and celebrate clamly (no one wants to end up in prison or anything!)...