This would not go over in the States, I'm sure. It would cause a serious breakdown of well, everything. I imagine protests and people suing the government. Or it would take years in court to do. Here, just a wave of the hand from the Sultan and life goes on as normal!
Today, there was an official announcement that effective May 1st, the weekend here in Oman will no longer be Thursday/Friday (Friday is the holy day) and it will change to Friday/Saturday. This is actually the common form of the weekend in the Middle East. Oman was one of the very few with Thursday/Friday.
We are just waiting now, to see how things will change. I mean, that is a lot to change for businesses and the schools. We are all quite curious to how this will effect the rest of the school year. We are assuming we'll change to a Sunday-Thursday school week for the rest of the year but who knows? All the formatting changes to school documents and such.
It's all just weird!
Today, there was an official announcement that effective May 1st, the weekend here in Oman will no longer be Thursday/Friday (Friday is the holy day) and it will change to Friday/Saturday. This is actually the common form of the weekend in the Middle East. Oman was one of the very few with Thursday/Friday.
We are just waiting now, to see how things will change. I mean, that is a lot to change for businesses and the schools. We are all quite curious to how this will effect the rest of the school year. We are assuming we'll change to a Sunday-Thursday school week for the rest of the year but who knows? All the formatting changes to school documents and such.
It's all just weird!
What!? That's crazy! No way would it go over in the States!
ReplyDeleteYeah, it would be like President Obama just announcing that the weekend was now Sunday/Monday and that was just that.
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