Day of Festivities and Excitements...

Well... as the title will prove to you, maybe there's actually none of the above which you will find in this posting, but it sounds cool... huh? So... this last weekend has been a bit of a special one... why you might ask? Well, because it's obvious that the school year is now ending, and it's a bit saddening. We have an array of holidays starting at the beginning of April which makes us only have a few weeks where we go to school all week. And right now we are in the heart of this celebration of festivites. We come to the unofficial holidady on April 30th, but that holiday which everyone will make an attempt to celebrate, known as Čarodejnice, or maybe you better know it as Witch-burning Day... What?... What's that?.... That doesn't ring a bell?... Hm... ok, so maybe it's not better known as anything because in America, I think we stopped believing in witches after the Salem Witch Hunt. But then again, this is another one of my strong points for "Uncivilized People". No no no... I'm just kidding here. They don't really believe in witches here, but this is a real celebration. Perhaps it's only in name. But it's more of a welcoming of Spring... a final welcoming if you will. Please explain more, you say... Oh? Your interest has been peaked huh? Super, so I'll continue... Well... there's really not much to say about this holiday of unofficiality. Well... we have it due to the fact of the wonderful Labor Day holiday that follows on the first of May (which I will say a bit about in a second). So... this is more or less just another holiday in which is a time for people to go (in the middle of a nation-wide, yet unobserved as it is, fire ban due to the lack of rain) and burn fires in every possible place you could imagine and bring sausages and liquor and drink the night into oblivion. It's quite an interesting celebration really.... although I really saw no difference in this celebration and my friend's bday party the previous weekend. Apparently it's about what your heart feels I guess. (Sometimes the fires can get way out of hand, but luckily, we just had a small little campfire... but i mean, c'mon, seriously, how impressed would you have been to see a wussy little campfire)

MAY 1
This day is the Czech Labor Day first instituted under the Communist Era. I think it was originally a day off, but everyone was supposed to attend city parades to celebrate their "Communist Nationalism" or something like that. But now... it just serves as a day off work, so it's nice. It also serves as a kind of "Czech Valentines Day" if you will, with couples gathering for a short romancing (only a kiss) under a blooming tree, for there surely are a lot of them over here right now. It's kinda absurd. but anyways, the girls will in turn, after this action, be more beautiful and healthy for the upcoming year. So... every year May first is a national holiday and 7 days later, the 8th, is also, celebrating VE Day. So as you can see... it can make for a long time to not see students if you have them on the day of the week that this falls on. Anyways... things are good and i only have school 3 days this week, and 4 days next week, and then i'm coming home for Cathleen's wedding for a week. That's all I got for now. Talk to you soon.

Oh... and I was trying to think what we do for "May Day" in America. I just know the day is called this, but i don't really know what happens here. Ok. later