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Are we on holiday?

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If so anyone know how long?
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Not an official holiday but as many Khmer are ethnic Chinese, and others become Chinese for the day, it can feel that way.
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Cambodian saying, "Chinese New Year, Cambodians get drunk. :plus1:
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^ this

This is the holiday were it used to be dangerous not to be drunk on the road since everyone else was. Probably still the case to some extent.
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Cool at least I won't starve to death by Monday.
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Monday is pretty much a day off, too.

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20 out of the normal 57,students in my sister-in-law's grade 3 class showed up today. Half of the faculty didn't. I remember when I taught at ACE only my students of Chinese origin would attend during Chinese New Year.
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taabarang wrote:20 out of the normal 57,students in my sister-in-law's grade 3 class showed up today. Half of the faculty didn't. I remember when I taught at ACE only my students of Chinese origin would attend during Chinese New Year.
No surprise there.
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There are schools open today? Optimistic. Both the Khmer and English schools here in SHV for my kids are shut until this is over.
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"Optimistic". Perhaps and as Hanno pointed out, "no surprise.". Nonetheless it is not a state holiday and if teachers were paid a decent salary and penalized for being absent this wouldn't happen. Now that's idealistic.
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