Random reason

why I really like Spain.

We do holidays. Here better known as "festivos." Not a month goes by whereby Spain does not grind to a halt, shut up shop, and go out drinking with friends and family. Take the recently mentioned immaculate conception, this comes only two days after another holiday, the day of the Constitution on December 6th. This year these days fall on a Tuesday and a Thursday. Well it doesn't make very much sense to have to work every other day this week. And you can't very much change the days themselves. So. Monday will definately have to be a day off, no doubt about that. Therefore one can enjoy the weekend before, and not lose the festive spirit until well into Wednesday morning.

This leaves two days of work, with one lonely holiday in the middle. Some businesses and schools simply leave it at that. Three days off, two on. But only some.

After having festivoed away Thursday, it can be very hard to motivate oneself to get up and head into work, with only one day left before another weekend. Thus Friday can be logically done away with as a workday. All in good conscience.

This leaves one group left. University students. Now really, what is the point of having just one Wednesday in the middle of the week in which you have class. Not very logical, when much can be done with a whole week free! So they just take the whole week off.

All of this, only two weeks before the three weeks of Christmas vacation start.

And maybe later I'll write about how in May, they have a Friday off to celebrate the fact that it's May...