Today, as a productive way of venting I’m going to share
what classifies as a “day off” in Nicaragua.
Nationwide, Nicaragua gets the standard holidays off: Christmas, New
Years Day, Good Friday, Labor Day and Independence Day. That’s fair right? Now let’s add in some more interesting federal holidays: Battle of
San Jacinto (the day before Independence Day) and Day of the Immaculate
Conception. Still reasonable, no? Okay, let’s get crazy: Mother’s Day, Student’s
Day, Teacher’s Day, every last Friday of the month to plan or have workshops, fiestas patronales (which depend on the
town), anniversary of the high school, etc..
More or less, there’s about 180 scheduled schooldays but we generally only
have class about 70% of the time. So
that means on any given week, 2 of my classes are canceled for one reason or
another. Long story short, I may have a
little trouble adjusting to a 9-5 after this…
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