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 Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 11:59 am
Whelp, today is May first and, in case you didn't know, it's a holiday! Do you celebrate it at all? If so, how do you do so?
*goes to make May Day baskets*
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 12:05 pm
It's... a holiday?....what are we celebrating?
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 12:23 pm
sweatdrop I didn't realize it was may day!
I've been writing "4/30" all day on every school paper....
mrgreen I'm bad with the days.
So why do we even celebrate may day?
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 12:26 pm
Whatever happened to May Day celebrations??? They like...died. sad
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Jafthasleftthebuilding Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 12:28 pm
Probably everyone was whipped up into a panicked frenzy and ate each other. biggrin
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 12:37 pm
They probably died off because no one actually celebrated Beltine or Walpurgisnacht in North America anymore -- most of the surrounding customs got moved to Easter and such.
Interesting trivia: Maypole dancing is actually a fertility ritual.
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 1:33 pm
The part of Germany I'm from celebrates it by putting up trees (or hearts/wreathes) with colored streamers at the house of your love interest, or a tree with white streamers at people who you dislike.
There is also a dance into the may walpurgisnacht hybrid where couples jump over a fire and all that.
My sleep was severly disturbed.
Cause itS'a lso a tradition to deliver the trees during the night, with tractor engines and shouting and laughing..loudly.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 1:38 pm
Sanzoskitsune It's... a holiday?....what are we celebrating?
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 2:14 pm
I have several Wiccan friends and went to a May Day celebration for Beltane last year.
My mom said she always used to celebrate May Day as a kid growing up. A may pole at least.
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 3:11 pm
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 6:37 pm
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 6:46 pm
I dont celebrate it, its a normal day for me the only difference from other days Is I dont have school, but I dont do anything special
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 7:04 pm
Nope, I don't celebrate it. I guess a friend of my mom does though, because she brought us a basket of chocolate...which I thought was just an Easter thing.
I dunno, I never celebrated it growing up so I guess I never thought about it much.
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 7:09 pm
At the beginning of the school year, the department was going to make an effort to celebrate May Day so we had some sort of second event instead of just Holiday Markt (long story).
We had ours yesterday since there was an art show going on today. The four language divisions in the language department had their annual soccer game. The Japanese finally beat the Spanish, but I believe it was the French who won this year.
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 7:35 pm
Chexednut At the beginning of the school year, the department was going to make an effort to celebrate May Day so we had some sort of second event instead of just Holiday Markt (long story).
We had ours yesterday since there was an art show going on today. The four language divisions in the language department had their annual soccer game. The Japanese finally beat the Spanish, but I believe it was the French who won this year. that sounds cool
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