April Fools' Day or All Fools' Day although not a holiday in its own right, is a notable day celebrated in many countries on April 1. The day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, enemies and neighbors, or sending them on fools' errands, the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible.

Origin:

The origins of this custom are complex and a matter of much debate. It is likely a relic of the once common festivities held on the vernal equinox, which began on 25 March, old New Year's Day, and ended on 2 April.

Though 1 April appears to have been observed as a general festival in Great Britain in antiquity, it was apparently not until the beginning of the 18th century that the making of April-fools was a common custom. In Scotland the custom was known as "hunting the gawk," i.e. the cuckoo, and April-fools were "April-gawks," the cuckoo being a term of contempt, as it is in many countries.

The origin of this traditions is possibly connected to the Persian Nowruz Festival. Nowruz, the Persian New Year festival, which starts on March 21^st, ends on Sizdah Bedar,its thirteenth day which corresponds to April First. As a Persian tradition, 13 is a sinister number, hence they also have the April Fools and mark it by saying a lie to one another. April Fools lies are known as Dorogh-e-Sizdah in Persian or Lie of the Thirteenth when translated to English. This Persian Tradition has been in practice for thousands of years as far as 536 BC. Thus, it can be assumed as one of the earliest orgins of April Fools.^[1]

Another connection to the day with fools is Chaucer's story the Nun's Priest's Tale (c.1400), which concerns two fools and takes place "thirty dayes and two" from the beginning of March, which is April 1. The significance of this is difficult to determine.

Europe may have derived its April-fooling from the French.^[2] French and Dutch references from 1508 and 1539 respectively describe April Fools' Day jokes and the custom of making them on the first of April. France was one of the first nations to make January 1 officially New Year's Day (which was already celebrated by many), by decree of Charles IX. This was in 1564, even before the 1582 adoption of the Gregorian calendar (See Julian start of the year). Thus the New Year's gifts and visits of felicitation which had been the feature of 1 April1 April. In France the person fooled is known as poisson d'avril (April fish). This has been explained as arising from the fact that in April the sun quits the zodiacal sign of the fish. The French traditionally celebrated this holiday by placing dead fish on the backs of friends. Today, real fish have been replaced with sticky, fish-shaped paper cut-outs that children try to sneak onto the back of their friends' shirts. Candy shops and bakeries also offer fish-shaped sweets for the holiday.

During the week, I study three or four hours

daily because I like passing the

exam, because my parents will

be happy if I pass the exams.

In the exams we go to the "salon de actos" and in this

place my class and I do the exams. But we

go to "classrom 64" to the exams of social cience,

in this class I sit next to my friend but I not copy the exams.

he likes eating mice and fish. He lives in my country's house.

His fur is black and white and his tail is brown in the end is black.

He lives in the trees and he comes down when

my parents and I go to my country's house, he goes for

a walk witk me across the fields.

They are pretty, sportive and clever.

They have problems with their parents and they have to study a lot for the exams.

They like to go out in the summer.

They are worry about the school, friends and parents.

They hate the teacher of chemist and their heavy friend.