There is always a reason to celebrate....

The holidays never seem to end, once one thing is finished another thing starts which means a lot of eating sweet stuff and a lot of days off :) let's start with western Xmas you all know what that's all about and you know it's followed by more celebrations on new years eve, but that's it right? Holiday season over ... Well not if you are in Egypt the next one up is coptic Christmas on the 6th Jan, more cakes and more meat yaaaay then it's a few weeks at work until we have the 25th Jan which means a long weekend to celebrate the revolution so we then go back to work all refreshed to work another week which is followed by another long weekend because of the profits Birthday on the 5th of feb, this is another one that involves lots of eating, oriental sweets are the fare and they are simply delicious. Then we have western Easter in April, followed by Coptic Easter and then the Egyptian spring festival ( this always happens a day after Coptic easter and is a big family day) then at some point Ramadan happens which means finishing work early everyday and feasting every-night Ramadan is of course followed by eid which means a week off and lots of fun :) (the beer shop opens again so I normally celebrate this all week). Then it's the slaughter festival or as we call it at school "the sheep festival" this is a bit of a gruesome one as people sacrifice cows and sheep out on the street and well if you are not into gore it can be a bit much... On the plus side it means a week off. Then we role up to Xmas again ohhhh and of course I have a month in the summer too. He he he love Egypt and love my job xxxx