Welcome to the eight is english podcast.
My name is Jack, and today I'm here with my co host Sochil.
And Sochil, today we're going to do another culture corner episode.
And one of our students said, Jack and Sochil, can you tell us about the festivals in the USA?
And I think when they say festivals, they mean holidays, like federal holidays in the United States.
And this person writes, I know that Christmas and Halloween are festivals, and Halloween is actually not a federal holiday.
That's the kind of funny thing Christmas is.
But Halloween is more of a cultural holiday, but it's not a federal holiday.
Are there any other famous festivals in America?
And I thought, let me just tell our students, I thought we could just share with our students what the actual federal holidays are, and then just let me, before I hand it over to you, I'm just going to tell our students that holidays like Halloween and Valentine's Day are widely celebrated, but they are not federal holidays, meaning the government buildings will not close on Valentine's Day or on Halloween.
Everyone goes to school, everyone goes to work on those days.
But then we just celebrate it kind.
Cause it's a cultural holiday.
But the list that I have for you right now that we're gonna go through, these are federal holidays, meaning government buildings shut down, schools close.
You know, it's an actually, it's an actual recognized holiday by the government.
So the first one we can pass right over, that's New Year's Day, January 1.
And we've already talked about that on this podcast.
But the next holiday is the third Monday in January.
Soto, what holiday is the third Monday in January?
Mlk day.