Monday it was Veterans Day. Most people in Spain, obviously since we weren't in that war, don't know that November 11th is the anniversary of the signing of the armistice which ended World War I. Since it fell on a Sunday, the holiday was moved to Monday. November 11th is also a holiday in France and England. I figure it isn't in Germany :-)
In any case it is one of those half-holidays that Americans have. Half-holidays because some things close and some others don't. There was no mail, but the university was open normally, stores were open too, but banks weren't. In each of these half-holidays, there's a list in the newspaper of things that open and things that close. There's a few of these, Presidents Day (George Washington's birthday) and Martin Luther King's Day, for instance.
Now. For a super-holiday, that would be Thanksgiving. That's next Thursday. I will tell you about it, and its curiosities, of which it's got many.
