A worker like me would leap for joy when holidays come in the midst of excessive tasks and overloads. Being free from work is what I anticipate today and tomorrow, and even in the weekend, despite the fact that I have plenty of paperworks to be done this whole month of May. But as of this moment, I am in a holiday mood to blog and forget about those loads of work. Anyhow, I can do whatever I want to make the most of the holiday and suffer later.
Yesterday was actually the start of the holiday for most schools and offices cos it’s Walpurgis Night or Valborgsmässoafton in Swedish. The name suggests celebrating it in the night but many are doing it in the late afternoon. The highlight of the celebration is to light large bonfires while people gather around and sing songs of spring. It is believed to be the beginning of springtime, casting away winter paraphernalias and the likes. According to ancient times, the purpose of the bonfire is to keep away the dead and chaotic spirits’ presence among the living. Awooo!
Alongside the Walpurgis Night is the annual cortége by the students of the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. The carnival parade makes its way through the city centre in the eyes of the spectators around. This explained why the traffic was directed to a different route while I was on my home yesterday, though. I can’t stand with large crowd so I passed watching the parade.
International Workers Day or May Day or Labour Day is a significant day for all the workers in the world. There must be a massive street rallies and demonstrations going on today so I prefer to stay at home for this reason. Besides, I don’t know what I should be rallying for. 🙂
Happy Holiday and enjoy this week end….:) many choice to spend this holiday with window shopping or relax at home or watch the movie Forbidden Kingdom and make you smile he he
Thanks, Franx. I prefer to stay at home the rest of the weekend. Forbidden Kingdom? Haven’t heard of that film. 🙂
Happy Belated Labor Day!!! 🙂 Hope you had a good one.
Rozella, same to you. What could be more happier than staying at home, avoiding rallys in town, hehee.
wow My, looks like you had great fun. Is it like the bonfire nights in the UK? I am excited looking at the pics already! It’s great that you have something so extravagant as such to chill out for. I mean, such a nice break from school and work too.
You know, I’ve always known the bonfire is to burn away what all you don’t need anymore, like furniture etc. LOL never knew, it’s actually for the dead. hahaha now, that sounds lil scary too.
Have a nice weekend my dear…
Farah, you got it right. Gone are those days when people here believed that bonfires were to scare away deads and chaotic spirits. Nowadays, it’s about getting rid of winter paraphernalias and welcome spring by bonfires. But they don’t actually burn big stuffs and like that, otherwise, it will become a huge fire. 🙂
heheeh My, yeah, if they actually start burning big stuff, then the whole of europe might be on fire on bonfire days! LOL