Kemaren pergi ke acaranya ESN (Erasmus Student Network) for an early celebration of Sinterklaas…Apakah hari Sinterklaas itu???
G copy paste sebagian dari keterangan lengkap-nya wikipedia yah :

The Sinterklaas feast celebrates the name day, December 6, of Saint Nicholas (280–342), patron saint of children and sailors. Saint Nicholas was a bishop of Myra in present-day Turkey. In earlier times, the feast was both an occasion to help the poor by putting some money in their shoes (which evolved into putting presents in children’s shoes) and a wild feast, similar to Carnival, that often led to mass public drunkenness. After the Netherlands became a largely Protestant country, many Calvinists argued that the feast of Sinterklaas was too ‘paaps’ (a slang term for Catholic) and should be abolished. However, the feast was so popular, even among the Protestant population, that these efforts were largely unsuccessful.

The modern tradition of Sinterklaas as a children’s feast probably originates from the illustrated children’s book ‘Sint Nicolaas en zijn knecht’ (Saint Nicholas and his helper) written in 1850 by teacher Jan Schenkman (1806–1863). This book introduced the concept of Sinterklaas delivering presents through the chimney, riding the roofs of houses on a white horse and arriving from Spain by steamboat. It also introduced the song ‘Zie ginds komt de stoomboot’ (See, there comes the steamboat) which remains one of the most well known Sinterklaas songs in the Netherlands.

Buat keterangan lengkapnya bisa dibaca disini

Intinya disini Sinterklaas = hari kado hahaha…dimana orang2 heboh membeli kado untuk dikasih ke orang lain terutama anak2…

Berikut foto2 dari acara kemaren…

Yes everyone need to sit on the Sinterklaas’ lap…including me…g udah ngeri bikin patah kakinya aja wakakaka…ditanya2 gitu deh…kalo si Sinterklaas-nya berkenan maka kita dikasih banyak permen n kue, kalo engga yah ga dapet, kayak yang dialami temen g karena jawabannya ngebullshit abis hahahaha….anyway ada 2 zwarte piet-nya jg which are our own friends yang dicoreng moreng sampe item…n ada acara tukeran kado jg… and i got a really nice wool hat…surely will be useful in facing winter…

Nah terus terpikir…kalo udah kasih kado pas Sinterklaas, pas natal kasih lagi ga??? Trus intinya Sinterklaas = Santa Claus ga sih???
And here is the answer according to a dutch friend…

Hahaha wonder what the americans will think about Sinterklaas…
I also heard lots of good news yesterday…friends getting internships and job…Hopefully I’ll have my own good news in the near future…amennnnn ^^

Just remember a song that inspires me…a really good song for motivation…surely motivation is something i really need these days…

ain’t about how fast i get there…
ain’t about what’s waiting at the other side…
it’s the climb !!!