St. Pat's Day (II) Green Beer

On the very first day of the festival, all the students go out and paint a bunch of the streets green. No kidding, they literally paint whole streets green. It is the route of the parade,
I guess. The town used to let the students do whatever they wanted during St. Pat's but they don't anymore.

There are these huge dormitories and they have giant parties all week and students from all over come to Rolla. The hotels get filled up and the town is kind of like Mardi Gras for a few days, but not as big. Still, it gets pretty crazy with all those students drinking endless amounts of green beer.

Then they have the contests I should tell you about. Groups of students compete with each other. Like they have these contests where the groups all try to drink the most beer within a certain amount of time. Or they have one contest where each person tries to drink a mug of beer as fast as they can.

Some of those guys are amazing, they drink the beer as fast as it pours down their throats. And without spilling any because that's part of the rules - you can't spill beer all over the place while you're drinking it. If you do and you get caught, everyone is allowed to pour green beer all over you. Actually, they aren't but wouldn't it be cool if they were?