The schoolyear - next year's will be the last we have to reckon with school holidays - nears its ending. The kids are into their end of year exams and the schools will officially close on June 30th. Then come two months of vacation.
In the French-speaking part of Belgium, Wallony, the vacation will last not so long. The Walloons have chosen another holiday planning. They'll start the new schoolyear half August, but then have a longer autumn break (two weeks instead of one in Flanders) and an equally long spring break.
Flanders will probably never launch this scheme. Most people here like their two months of holidays (I remember, as a kid, I was quite fond of it) - teachers need it to reload their batteries and kids want to forget school for a while.
The past week the weather was extremely hot and on Friday we experienced the hottest June 17th ever, since they began marking the temperatures in the 1830's. The temperature rose well over 30° Celsius. We got a thunderstorm on Sunday, which broke the heat, but now the weather is improving once more and it looks as if more warm days are coming our way. I won't commplain!!!
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