Summer vacation
After today, the kids have 3 more days of classes before summer vacation. As high school-ers without finals, they’ll get out earlier than the seniors or those not yet in “gymnase” (our canton’s name for high school).
Vacation time is nearly a constitutional right in many European countries. I know in France, there is an association called “Vacations for everyone” that gets kids out of the cities and into the mountains. Even the unemployed expect time off.
Everyone starts a new position with 4 week’s vacation per year plus the 10 holidays. After just a couple of years, they pop it up to 5 weeks. One of my buddies from Geneva works for the city. He started with 7 full weeks of vacation time!
Used to be that if you didn’t have the money to go away during the summer months, you borrowed it. And everyone has a story about families who were ashamed to be at home in the summer, so they closed the shutters and pretended they weren’t home.
But now, more and more people admit to staying home and seeing the sites around Lausanne: lake, mountains, coffee on a terrace… Which makes sense to me. I mean, they are in Switzerland.
posted by Brady @ 12:02 PM
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Sounds like a country full of "school teachers." I can write that since "I are one."
Well, the Brits still whinge that they don't get as much time off for holiday as the rest of Europe. But from my perspective they get loads! Of course, to them a holiday isn't correct if they don't fly south to the Mediterranean for a beach ... or Disneyworld in Orlando.
It’s great, though, because of the holiday industry, it seems there are so many cheap holiday packages to choose from. What’s hilarious is that once many Brits get to these holiday retreats, they stay with other Brits and complain about the Germans cutting the queues. They eat English type meals and don’t try out the local cuisine. Crazy!
Have fun!
Vacations are too much stress...
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