Wednesday is the New Friday
... if only this were true every week.
We have a public holiday tomorrow, and with it most people in the office are taking a day of leave on Friday for a 4-day weekend. I'm definitely not going to be stingy with my leave days, so I'm taking off to Penang, Malaysia with several colleagues. (I guess I could have also asked for Monday off.)
I'm learning that I need to make the most of our public holidays, since at UNESCO, there are so few, even when compared to Canadian standards. We have perhaps 7 to 10 days of public holidays per year (including the fact that we only have Christmas day and New Year's off at the end of the year), and 12 days of annual leave (for consultants on SSA contracts - professional staff have 30 days/year).
Well, a bunch of us will be touring around Penang - checking the colourful sights, eating delicious seafood, and just relaxing away from work. I'm leaving tomorrow morning on Air Asia, one of the many new discount airlines, with Tee (who is our host, driver, tour-guide) and then the others will join us on Friday.
I just need to take short weekend trips out of the city somewhat regularly until our next holiday... in November.