This week’s Student Blogging Challenge focuses on the celebrations held in countries world wide.  I will be highlighting the same international celebration as the Challenge administrator :  EARTH HOUR to be celebrated from 8:30-9:30 p.m. this Saturday, March 28.  The activities we conduct this week will focus on this holiday.  A calendar of some international celebrations is included here.  The list is not exhaustive.  Spend some time searching for other countries’ causes for celebration; what we celebrate, we value.  What do holidays tell you about “We, the people,” and I mean ALL of us, everywhere?

January 01: Global Family Day 04: World Braille Day 08: World Literary Day 11 : International Thank-You Day 30: World Leprosy Day		February 12: Darwin Day 21: International Mother Language        Day 22: World Thinking Day		March 01: International Day of the Seal 08: International Women’s Day 14: World Book Day 20: World Frog Day 21; World Down Syndrome Day 22: World Day for Water 23: World Meteorological Day 29: Earth Hour – 8pm Local Time
April 02: International Children’s        Book Day 07: World Health Day 12: Yuri`s Night 13:     International Special Librarian’s Day 21:     International Creativity and            Innovation Day 22: Earth Day 23: World Copyright Day 25: World Penguin Day		May 03: World Press Freedom Day 05:     International Midwives Day 08: World Red Cross Day 10: World Lupus Day 12:     International Nurses Day 13: IEEE Global Engineering Day 15:     International Day of Families 18: International Museum Day 23: World Turtle Day 31: World No-Tobacco Day		June 08: World Ocean Day 14: World Blood Donor Day 16: International Day of the            African Child 17: World Day to Combat            Desertification & Drought 20: World Refugee Day 26:     International Day Against        Drug Abuse & Trafficking
July 11: World Population Day 16: World Snake Day		August 08: Universal & International         Infinity Day 10:     International Biodiesel Day 12:     International Youth Day 13: International Lefthanders      Day 14: World Lizard Day 23:     International Day for the            Remembrance of the Slave Trade      & its Abolition		September 08: International Literacy Day 13: International Chocolate Day 15: Software Freedom Day 16:     International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer 19: Talk Like a Pirate Day 21: World Gratitude Day 22: World Car-Free Day 29:     Inventors Day
October 01:     International Music Day 02: World Farm Animals Day 03: World Temperance Day 04: World Animal Day 05: World Teacher’s Day 10: World Mental Health Day 16: World Food Day 24: United Nations Day 29:     International Internet Day		November 08: World Town Planning Day 16: International Day for Tolerance 21: World Television Day 25:     International Day for the            Elimination of Violence            Against Women 30:     International Computer            Security Day Calendar generated at www.calendarlabs.com		December 01: World AIDS Day 02:     International Day for the            Abolition of Slavery 05:     International Volunteers Day 07:     International Civil Aviation Day 10: Human Rights Day