holiday for planting trees

Today is declared as "Day of Trees." It is a government initiative for afforestation (or reforestration?). People are having a holiday to plant trees. Macedonia had many forest fires last summer, and by this initiative it is expected to mitigate the damages from the fires. It seems about 2 million trees (same number of Macedonian population) will be planted today. For me, I feel just lucky for having an extra holiday, which was suddenly declared last week.

今日は「木の日｣ということで突然祭日になりました。先週くらいに発表されたんですよね。去年の夏、山火事で焼失した緑を取り戻そうという政府主導の活動。マケドニアの人口と同じ数だけ木を植えましょうということで、今日は木を植えるために休日です。ま、わたし的には突然ふってきた休日に、ラッキーって気持ちです。