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April Fool's Day 2018

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How did you kick off your April? Did you get fooled, or did you make a prank to your friends or family? April Fool's Day,  it is a western tradition to celebrate the beginning of April to make a prank to others. This tradition was brought up as the topic of last Wednesday Jakarta Motivator Toastmaster's meeting. TM Tika as the Toastmaster of the Meeting (ToM), splendidly prepared the meeting. She started with the introduction of April Fool's day history. Long ago, western people followed the Gregorian calendar, were the new year was begin in April. Then as the regime change, Julian calendar was introduced, where January is the start of the day. Yet, not everyone knows about the switching of the calendar. So, some people still celebrating the new year on the 1st of April. At that time, those who still mistaken April as the new year were considered as the fool. And the tradition of April Fools begin. The word of the day (WoD) of last Wednesday meeting was "Vex