Holiday

Dec. 22, 2005

My 10-day holiday will start tomorrow. Quite many other people in our office will be off from tomorrow as well. Year-end is one of  good chances for the people working in Japan to have a long holiday (I mean "long holiday" in Japanese standard). Traditionally most companies close for several days from the end of December to the beginning of January (typically first three days of the new year). Though our company is foreign, we follow Japanese custom. Our office is closed from Dec. 30 to Jan.3. In addition, this weekend is a long weekend. Though we don’t have Christmas holiday in Japan, this is almost like that.

I decided to go to yoga retreat in Thailand. It will be wonderful to be there practicing yoga and seeing nice view on the beach. I’m so much looking forward to this Sunday when I’m flying to Bangkok. I heard at least three other people than me from the yoga studio are going to Thailand during this holiday. Though we’ll be in different places in Thailand, it seems to be very popular among yogis : )

(Japanese)

明日から10日間の休暇を取ることにした。明日は祝日だから3連休。それに年末年始、会社は30日から3にちまで休み。長い休暇をとるにはもってこいのタイミング。ということで私以外にもわりとたくさんの人たちが明日から休みに入るようだ。

（英語版のほうが若干文が長いのは年末年始休暇やクリスマス休暇などについて少し余分に説明したから。日本語で読んでる人にはもうわかりきったことかと思って省きます。）

この休暇はタイでヨガリトリートに参加する。ヨガをしたりビーチできれいな景色を眺めたり、かなりハッピーな休暇になることは間違いなし。日曜日の出発が楽しみで仕方ない。ヨガスタジオ関係で私が知ってるだけでも3人も（私を含めれば4人！）タイに行く予定らしい。それぞれタイでも行く場所は違うのだけれど、タイはヨギーに人気の場所らしい。