St. Patrick's Day

...And we're back!

How was everyone's break? I suppose not many of you were on break since my school's breaks are in contrast to many other school's breaks. It seems that many students are starting their spring break this week, while many others are still awaiting theirs in mid-April, nothing like a warm break.

As most of you know, when people think of the holidays in March, St. Patrick's Day is a widely-celebrated holiday in March (unless you celebrate Passover and the First Day of Spring) and when people think of St. Patrick's Day, they think about getting drunk but this is not the case back in Ireland.

In Ireland, families actually gather together for a meal, kind of like the Chinese for Chinese New Year, Koreans for Korean New Year and Greeks for Greek New Year. We all have this perspective that St. Patrick's Day is the day to carelessly get drunk, but it's a complete different scenario for the Irish.

The New York City annual St. Patrick's Day Parade will celebrate it's 250th parade on Thursday the 17th, as usual, from St. Patrick's Cathedral to 86th Street, with live bands and non-profit and profitable organizations parading until 4:00-5:00 pm.