For instance, the 27th April is Freedom Day.
It’s a public holiday and I’m sure you were all as glad as I was that we did not have to go to school or work on that day.
Some public holiday days are always the same – like Christmas, New Year and Woman’s Day. Easter moves around because it is defined as being the first Sunday after the first full moon occurring on or after the vernal equinox (in simple terms – that’s some moon event).
Ramadan is the same – it also moves around.
Then you get other days that have been declared things like “World Wildlife Day” (March 3), “World Water Day” (March 22) or “World Malaria Day” (April 25) by the United Nations or some other body.
There are lots of these days.
Just last week we had “Earth Day” (April 22) and we made my book on global warming – Sibo Makes a Difference – available on the website (www.sibo.co.za) for people to freely read.
It’s still there if you want to go and have a look.
On May 1 we have “Workers Day”.
This is a public holiday in South Africa but not necessarily every where else in the world.
These days, if a public holiday falls on a Sunday – we get the Monday off. Yay!
There are also a number of other days in May but they are not public holidays.
Things like“World Press Freedom Day” on May 3, “International Day of Families” on May 15, “International Day of Biological Diversity” on May 22 and “World No-Tobacco Day” on May 31.
There are a lot of other day’s in-between too – but most of us would not easily relate to the topics.
If you want to know when and what all the different days in the year are, you can visit this website https://www.vercalendario.info/en/event/days-unitednations-year-calendar-2016.html – it lists them all in a really easy way with clickable links.
Of course the most important day to remember in May is Mother’s Day on May 8. We all know that our moms are the most special people – no matter how old we are or they are. Make sure you spoil yours.
Happy Days!
Sibo
