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Dina:
((((Regen)))) I hope it all goes as well as possible with your knees.
I share your feelings about romance and adventure in the books. In general, I prefer that my adventure books are adventure books, with romance being the spice and not the main course.
We are having very nice, sunny days lately. October is a month I would suggest to visit Buenos Aires. Weather is nice and there are flowering trees that make it prettier than ever.
Regenbogen:
Sounds nice. We are having some cold days now after an unusually warm October.
Now it is freezing in the mornings (below 0) and about 10-15°C in the afternoons.
But it looks beautiful. Leaves falling, trees and bushes in green, red and yellow. Fog at ground level near the river. Looks mysterious. 🙂
I'm excited because this week I will see my old friend again, who lives 5 hours away. Her kids have their autumn holidays and they always come for a week to visit the family. And friends. 😊
Dina:
Ah, I can imagine it looking so beautiful.
I am curious about the concept of Autumn holidays. How is the school year in Germany? I mean, when it begins, when it ends, when are the Holidays? Inquiring minds want to know.
Regenbogen:
--- Quote from: Dina on October 17, 2023, 11:23:28 PM ---Ah, I can imagine it looking so beautiful.
I am curious about the concept of Autumn holidays. How is the school year in Germany? I mean, when it begins, when it ends, when are the Holidays? Inquiring minds want to know.
--- End quote ---
Hi, Dina. This looks like a simple question, but I'm afraid there is no simple answer, lol.
Because there is no answer for all of Germany. As you might know, Germany has 16 federal states. And each state has it's own rules regarding political decisions for it's own state. While there is a government for the whole of Germany with a constitution for the whole country, there are little intern governments representing and caring for each federal state, elected by the people of that state for that state alone. It would be too complicated to explain here in detail.
So, the school system can be slightly different in each federal state. The kind of schools there are, at what age school starts, how stuff is taught and so on.
Also the holidays are not at the same time. But what they all have in common: there are long summer holidays after which the new school year starts. In Bavaria they are six weeks usually the whole of August, beginning in the last week of July, sometimes on the last day of July and ending at the second Tuesday of September.
In other states they start in the middle of July , end at the end of August. Or start at the beginning of July and end in the middle of August.
I think all of them have autumn holidays, but some one week, some two weeks. We have one week, my friend from Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate) has two weeks.
Then there are the Christmas holidays.
We have 14 days starting at the 23rd, they have 10 days starting at the 27th.
I did some research, but I won't go into detail for the other holidays:
So there are summer, autumn (around All Saints Day), Christmas, Easter and Pentecost holidays, which vary in length and starting date (except for summer, all the other holidays are either one or two weeks, depending on the federal state), some have additional winter holidays (in February, varying between 2 and 5 days), some don't.
Dina:
Oh, that was very interesting. I had never thought there would be such statal differences. Most of my country had the same schedule, with the only exceptions being places were Winter are too cold, so they have larger Winter holidays and more classes in the Summer.
Thanks for your detailed explanation!
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