こんにちは、みんなさん！
このブログがおそくなって、すみません。じつは、がっきが４月にはじまりましたので、べんきょうでちょっといそがしいです。
日本のがっこうとかかいしゃにはいるのは、だいていいつも４月ですので、いまはみんながわたしのようにつかれているとおもいます！。
ですから、５月になったら小さいやすみがあるのが、とてもありがたいです。
In Japanese this holiday is called 'Golden Week'. It's a little like our May Bank Holiday (and at the same time, too!). The reason Japanese people take a holiday now is because four national holidays fall within one week of each other. It's become a custom to take off the days in between those holidays and travel somewhere nice. A lot of my Japanese friends took the opportunity to go home and see their parents.
Actually my university does not normally give us time off on national holidays (because there are quite a few, much more than the UK), but they did give us two extra days off. The only downside is, we have to make up one of those days next Saturday!
(Don't worry, not all Japanese universities are like that! At another university they had 10 whole days of holiday)
It was super busy in Kyoto during Golden Week, as this is one of the tourist hotspots for Japanese people as well as foreign visitors. There are a couple of important temples near campus (Kinkakuji, the Golden Pavillion, and Ryoanji, with a zen garden), so getting the bus to university was a nightmare!
Anyway, now that everyone's back at work and school, we've just got to keep going until the end of term (which is the beginning of August). Also, the temperature is rising for sure now, today it hit 29 degrees celcius in Kyoto Prefecture! (That's hot even by Japanese standards for May).
みんなはゴールデンウィークで、りょこうするとおもいますか。または、わたしのようにゴロゴロするとおもいますか。
よんでくれてありがとうございます。
