It's the second of this year's extended holidays in Japan. The first, in January, is the New Year Holiday. Today is the first day of the so-called "Golden Week." Today, May 3rd, is "Constitution Day," a holiday traditionally celebrated by the Dwarf character classes.
Friday is "Children's day." Formerly "Boys Day," the holiday was intended to celebrate familial hopes that their boys would grow up fine and strong, until it was decided that excluding the girls from the hopes of being fine and strong was unfair. On an unrelated note, the March 3 festival of Girls Day has not been expanded to allow boys the hopes of becoming a fine woman who can land a good husband.
Anyway, May 4 is my favorite of the holidays, "Declared Official Holiday." The government wisely realized that a five day weekend is way cooler than a three day work week where you have to come back in on Thursday.
Most Japanese people celebrate Golden Week by exploding from their homes and offices like locusts and jamming up the trains, freeways, airports, parks and shopping centers.
And me? I celebrated last night with sesame wings and beer. Tonight I'll celebrate with curry and beer. Guess what tomorrow holds. Go on. Guess.
Hint: It probably rhymes with "-and beer."
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Alien at Large:
- Datsun Z
- Souf London, United Kingdom
- I am, in fact, a distinctly moral individual. But they are distinctly individual morals.
1 comment:
Geeze Datzun, thats bad, Constitution day a day generaly celebrated by a class of characters who get a +2 in the same field... oie. I kinda figured it would be a pre rec for someone traveling to Japan from the west to have basic DnD knowledge. Haha, I got a laugh out of it at least.
Hope your enjoying your Golden week!
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