We are constantly confused about the holidays here in Hungary. We just don't know when they happen! Well, maybe we know the main date of the holidays but we still don't understand the system of when people attach extra days on to the holiday. For example, today is All Saints Day in Hungary. It's a national holiday! Everything is closed. We did see that Burger King opened a little later than usual. But most all things were closed. Since the holiday fell on a Tuesday, a lot of Hungarians took yesterday off from work. They will work this coming Saturday in order to have the 4 day weekend. Makes sense. We would probably do the same thing in the states. But in talking with some Hungarians at BSF this morning, we were told that next year might be totally different. This holiday will fall on a Wednesday and they thought that most Hungarians would just be off on Wednesday--not any other day. So it makes for interesting decisions concerning the BSF class calendar. Do we meet or do we not meet? We just decided that we would continue class and did decide to meet today on the national holiday. We had a remarkably good turnout so it was a good decision. We'll probably just have to take the calendar year by year and try to figure out when these holidays will affect BSF. The next big holiday is Christmas and we'll be off from BSF during that time. Then there's another national holiday on March 15. We'll just have to wait and see how that affects our class!
