at least in Germany it is. What the heck is Corpus Christi day? Do the Germans have a secret love for cities in Texas? No, not at all actually. This is just one of the many public (or federal) holidays the Germans celebrate. In fact this is one of the 16 holidays that very few people work and just about everything is closed. To compare it to the US, we have 10 federal holidays. Lately the number of holidays has been almost 1 a week for about 2 months and this because there is a holiday on Good Friday, the Monday after Easter, May 1st, 39 days after easter, 50 days after easter, and 60 days after easter. There are names for all of these but I don’t see a need to list them here but you can click the link at the end if you want to know more about them.
A really crazy part about all this is that the Germans that work in our office get all of the German holidays off AND all of the american holidays off for a grand total of 24 days off automatically in one year. That is over 1 full month (20 working days in a month) off out of 12. Maybe I should start putting together those German citizenship papers…..maybe not.
German holiday link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Germany