Calendar Magic

Today is Monday. Typically, this means that yesterday was Sunday. In China, however, this was not the case. In China, yesterday was Friday. Well, it was for work purposes at least. The Chinese are magicians when it comes to the calendar. They can change the days and the overall order of the days like magic.

The reason yesterday was a work Friday is May Day aka Labor Day. May Day was on Thursday, May 1st. To give people a little holiday break, work and school were canceled on Friday. Saturday was a regular weekend day. Anyway, to make up for Friday being off, Sunday became a work/ school day for most people. So, we had a three day weekend, which will be followed by a six day week.

The Chinese refer to these special, working weekend days as Makeup Days. Personally, I would rather just work the regular days and keep my weekends off. But, I guess this takes away the magical way Chinese people have with the calendar. Oh well.

Happy Labor Day! Yeah, I'm going to need you to come in on Sunday.

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