Easter season
Athena, a Maltese graduate studying archeology at Cambridge, blogs at Rites of Passage about the subjects of her studies, food, politics etc.. She has a particular interest in Mediterranean prehistory and African ethnography. In her latest post she entertains us with an anthropological overview of Easter rituals in Malta. For the first time in years I am unable to spend the full Easter week in Malta and will only be back on Good Friday. I am currently teaching an International Economics course at a Czech university and unfortunately there is no such thing as an Easter break in Czech academia. From Rites of Passage:
..Then Saturday is a quiet day because Christ is still dead and you are meant to reflect even further. Easter Sunday simply RULES. You wake up early and rush to the village/town centre where the church stands to watch the statue of Christ the Risen being brought out. The men literally *run* down the church parvis and then on the way back the statue is thrown up slightly and they catch it again. The lovely bells will be ringing (real people ring our bells, Great St Mary's Church please take note) and figolli are distributed. Oh and there's Easter lunch of course, lamb and more food than anyone can ever handle really...
Holy Week and Easter week in Malta - MaltaMedia
The 2005 Easter festival of Music and Theatre in Valletta
posted by Robert Micallef at 3/21/2005 05:38:00 PM
Universities in Czech are known as non religion universities. There is no chance to expect any special holidays on this universties because of historical legacy of Czech history. It is our way of thinking, that no religion should be connected with classes. But there is a free day on Monday, the most important day in Czech rituals.
The Czech university really don´t have a rule for holiday during Easter. But in reality it depends on universities and their teachers. I did a small research. For example my sister studies Charles university and she has a free Friday officially. And my friend in Mendel university has informal agreement between students and teachers that they also have free Friday.
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