This is a repost of a different cultural post with a few changes.

Here in Poland school kids have 2 weeks off during winter - after Christmas and before Easter.

For us this was a strange break and I wasn’t used to having one so soon after Christmas. But of course, the kids loved it!

This year our winter is kind of brown. As I write this, we do have ‘some’ snow on the ground, but at just above freezing, by tomorrow, unless we get more, it will all disappear. Here’s a screen shot of our town’s forecast for the next 10 days or so.

What they do is hope that people go to the southern part of Poland and go skiing - with their families, of course. Skiing and ski jumping are big industries here in Poland. Poland’s ski jumping men’s team is quite good.

What they do so that the resorts aren’t inundated with the whole country at once is that they split the regions up and divvy up the times and regions when schools have off. They also alternate them from year to year. The first break is probably the least appreciated since it comes 2 weeks or less after the Christmas break and kids are really just getting back into the idea of going to school.

This year they split them up pretty well.

The regions are split up by where you live. Here’s a map. I marked with an arrow where we are. IN our area, the kids will have their winter break in February. I think the timing of it this year is great. Everyone feels the need for a break in February!

Winter break is a problem for working parents with children in school. Often one of them has to get off work, though the schools do tend to have activities during this time. Obviously, however, the POINT of the winter break is a break from school and not to keep going back to school for activities!

I was told a long time ago that companies had to allow parents off during this time, but I’m not sure what the status is currently or what is actually the law as opposed to tradition.

And now you know = winter break is a “thing”!

For us, winter goes until March 31 - that’s when spring starts. Sometimes our worst winter weather is actually in February or March.

The ski resorts love it when that happens!

Every year they switch around the areas and dates - so that one region doesn’t get a certain week at one time. They move it all around. That does seem the most fair. Our winter fluctuates wildly in temps. Sometimes it is very cold and other times it gets warmer and everything thaws. There is no way to know what your slot’s weather will be like. :)

This year winter in Poland has been so very mild that I’m hoping the ski resorts get the snow they need so they can have the ski slopes for people.

And now you know! This is a kind of cool way to have a break in one country - and not make the roads all over loaded or the ski resorts glutted.

Have a great day and thanks for coming along on my journey!

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