I feel sorry for Qatar school kids

edifis
By edifis

In my school days we had 202 days(almost 7 months) holidays per anum! We had school for only the remaining 5 months. I feel so lucky!

Poor school kids of Qatar.... just see my school holiday list and compare it with yours!

52 Saturdays= 52 days
52 Sundays= 52 days
Summer Vacation= 50 days
Winter Vacation= 30 days
October(Festival) Vacation= 15 days
Sports Vacation= 4 days
School Founder’s day= 1 day
Other Holidays = 22 days
TOTAL HOLIDAYS = 226 days
Deduct for Vacation Period Weekends= (-)24 days
Net Holidays= 202 days

Jan
1) New Year
2) 26th Jan Republic day
Feb
3) Maha Shivaratri
March
4) Holi / Dol Yatra
April
5)Ram Navami
6)Mahavir Jayanti
7)Good Friday
May
8) May Day
9)Buddha Jayanti/ Buddha Purnima
June
10) Rath Yatra
August
11) Janmashtami/ Krishna Jayanti
12) Independence day
September
13) Teachers day
14) Eid
15) Onam
October
16) Durgapuja
17) Vijaya Dashami
18) Gandhi Jayanti
19) Diwali
November
20) Guru Nanak Jayanti
21) Children’s day
22) 2nd Eid
December
23) Christmas

By edifis• 14 Oct 2009 21:35
edifis

Only 112, Sandeep? Poor you! Then my school was better than your school Sandeep.

By samia08• 14 Oct 2009 21:13
samia08

lol

thats why you sould go back to school .

By anonymous• 14 Oct 2009 21:11
Rating: 5/5
anonymous

Which school were you in??

I didn't have saturday off and only 10 days winter vacation and only 7 days october festival holidays and 40 days summer vacations.

Only 112 holidays :(

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein

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