Well, I dunno...
I was at the Shrove Monday procession today, but I went way too early. I went to the market square where the meet up was supposed to be, but I only caught one guy I knew and he was busy f-ing around with some douchebag friends of his. Those guys seriously made me mad. They were already drunk (it was 9:30AM) and kept on insulting each other and me. At some point around 10 I had enough and left the scene.
That's when it started to get much, much better. I met some people from my class and they were all nice, girls as well (which makes it even better). So we positioned ourselves right at the street where the procession went through, and had a great time watching it. There wasn't lots of alcohol involved, which was good. I rather party sober than **** up everybody around me just because I'm drunk, even if I'm enjoying myself.
Afterwards we went to the mall nearby to warm us up a bit (it was pretty cold outside) and then back to the market square. It was a lot more crowded than before and I can't say I was disappointed about it. Actually I met a bunch of other people who were all nice and not as drunk as the guys before. I also saw the guy I met this morning again and he was completely wasted, he could barely walk straight and frequently bumped into people. He's in my class, so I'm not sure how he's going to deal with that maths test tomorrow...

We proceeded to hang out a bit watching the remainders of the procession and then went to eat something.
Then I left and went home only to find out that some idiot spray painted my hair without me noticing

I hope this stuff is washable...
If I leave out the stuff that happened before 10 AM I'd say it was a good day. But including that, I'd say it was rather mixed...
EDIT: I just found out that there was a giant brawl around 4 PM on the market square. Lucky I wasn't there...