Oh? It starts BEFORE December 21st?
Yeppers...
In NZ you can get sunburnt BEFORE 21 Dec if ya wanna...
Youre using your Yankee calendar...
Everythings different in the Southern hemisphere...
Ya notice I didnt say “down under” ???
Ozzie is down under...
Theyre dizzy cause they have to think standing upside down...
anyhoo, the SUMMER HOLIDAYS started BEFORE 21 December...
See how the date is structured different too ???
The Friday around about the 10th was the last day of school for the year...
so the 14th is probably the last day this year if theyre still doing it the same way...
We went back the Monday of the first week of Feb for a whole new school year and a new higher grade...
they were called “primers” and then “standards” and in the higher grades “forms”
Very English...
school 6 days a week..
SEVEN weeks of summer holidays
The school year was cut into 3 intervals
Feb to the middle of May and then 2 weeks holiday...
May to the middle of August then 2 weeks for elementry schools called “primary school” and 3 weeks for high schools..
and then the last bit ended in Dec...
No more school
No more books
No more teachers’ dirty looks
:)
and then there was 5 days off for Easter Friday through Tuesday
Queens Birthday Weekend...the Monday off
Labour Day ..1st weekend in Sept...a Monday off...
and ANZAC Day ..April 25.. for Gallipoli ..1915..
Australia and New Zealand Army Corps