Since I usually study in the Netherlands and have 4 Dutch girls and one Belgian girl with me here we celebrated Sinterklaas on the 4th of December (which is normally on the 5th, but because we had school we moved it to a Sunday). For all other nationalities: Sinterklaas is similar to the German "Nikolaus" and to all others well similar to Santa but then not quite ;) In Holland people believe that Sinterklaas comes by ship from Spain. The Dutch/Belgian have the tradition to write a poem to the person they give their present to. Now, as everyone knows I speak Dutch like the queen - NOT - my poem was 8 lines long, but after all it rimed, others on the other hand wrote up to two pages... oh well I tried my best =)
We celebrated at Daniëlle's house, who lives near the campus and has a quite spacious apartment. From pizza to "Pepernoten" (a Dutch speciality that tastes like "Spekulatius" a very typical Christmas taste) everything was there. We laughed a lot about the different dialects people have within Holland and in general spent joyful hours together. Thanks to the hosts again (Lore and Daniëlle) and to my Sinterklaas (Linda) for the nice present and of course to Demi and Emmy who always make me chuckle :)
De Zwarte Piet (in Holland that is a small black skinned figure that accompanies Sinterklaas on his journey) :)
We celebrated at Daniëlle's house, who lives near the campus and has a quite spacious apartment. From pizza to "Pepernoten" (a Dutch speciality that tastes like "Spekulatius" a very typical Christmas taste) everything was there. We laughed a lot about the different dialects people have within Holland and in general spent joyful hours together. Thanks to the hosts again (Lore and Daniëlle) and to my Sinterklaas (Linda) for the nice present and of course to Demi and Emmy who always make me chuckle :)
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