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[paradoxdestined]

ATTN: Students and Faculty
For any holidays you wish to see promoted leave a name and small description here. This is not for off-worlders only, regional holidays not currently observed by Garden may be listed.

- Commander Squall Leonhart

[If anyone wants action they are either going to have to track Squall down to where he is hiding in his room

Comments

[fierybluebird]

Talk Like A Pirate Day. It's September 19th.

[asideglance]

[COMMANDER... Well that explains the familiar part, but moving on. Hmm so many holidays, but...]

Obon would be nice. It is a festival to honor the deceased. It can be celebrated on the 15th of August. [Since July seems short notice.]

-Japan

[nomark1or2]

Official start of blitzball season!

[notaferry]

There is an event that is not so much as a national holiday where I'm from, but rather a celebration mostly seen in schools that might do us well here. It's referred to as a "Culture Day" where we share different things from our individual cultures.

- Instructor Botan

[bratbeyond]

Ramadan starts August 1st this year. It's a religious holiday that lasts about 30 days, and people who celebrate it - Muslims - mark it by fasting from sunup to sundown. After the last day, there's a celebration called Eid Al-Fitr where people wear new clothes and eat until they're sick.

It's kind of like Christmas for some people or whatever equivalent holiday people have for it.

- Damian

[He also sent Squall an intensely detailed PM about Ramadan, specifying exactly how the cafeteria could help them out (mainly by selling dates and fruit juice) and how faculty and instructors could help Muslims like Damian out (ie, going easy on him and being okay if he misses an assignment).

It might be a little too long, but he likes being prepared.]