Thursday, May 25, 2006
Happy Christie Himmelfahrt!
Today's a public holiday in Germany. I should mention there are TONS of public holidays in germany, in addition to the mandatory-by-law-minimum 5 weeks vacation. This is a Catholic country (in theory, not in church going) so every single possible religious holiday is celebrated with a day off.
Even if nobody has any idea what the holiday is or why it's significant. I've asked lots of people what holiday it is and nobody knows. To the outsider it looks like a drinking holiday starting last night with staying out late getting drunk, so bars and restaurants were packed. My sincere inquiry whether any of these people were going to get up and go to church in the morning was met with laughter, which I take it means NO.
I looked it up on the internet, apparently in english it's Corpus Christie, ten days after Pentecost, or Ascention day. That explains a lot (by which I mean nothing) since I don't know what pentecost is. I tried reading about it on Wikipedia but it's too boring.
I guess there are a lot of holidays in the United States that aren't that significant, like Labor Day and Presidents Day etc. And we make it more vulgar by drinking and, in true American style usually making it a big consumer shopping day with special sales. Here they just stay out late and sleep in.
¶ 5:10 PM
Today's a public holiday in Germany. I should mention there are TONS of public holidays in germany, in addition to the mandatory-by-law-minimum 5 weeks vacation. This is a Catholic country (in theory, not in church going) so every single possible religious holiday is celebrated with a day off. Even if nobody has any idea what the holiday is or why it's significant. I've asked lots of people what holiday it is and nobody knows. To the outsider it looks like a drinking holiday starting last night with staying out late getting drunk, so bars and restaurants were packed. My sincere inquiry whether any of these people were going to get up and go to church in the morning was met with laughter, which I take it means NO.
I looked it up on the internet, apparently in english it's Corpus Christie, ten days after Pentecost, or Ascention day. That explains a lot (by which I mean nothing) since I don't know what pentecost is. I tried reading about it on Wikipedia but it's too boring.
I guess there are a lot of holidays in the United States that aren't that significant, like Labor Day and Presidents Day etc. And we make it more vulgar by drinking and, in true American style usually making it a big consumer shopping day with special sales. Here they just stay out late and sleep in.
¶ 5:10 PM
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well, i mostly spent junior high religion class thinking impure thoughts about various members of duran duran, but i think the ascension is 40 days after easter, when christ "ascended" into heaven. pentecost has something to do with speaking in tongues, which is just plain weird.
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