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Old 12-05-2003, 02:31 PM
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Aan al mijn Nederlandse Vrienden op JT;

De hoop u allen heeft een grote dag!!!
How did you do that????????
Not bad at all!

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Old 12-05-2003, 02:33 PM
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Aan al mijn Nederlandse Vrienden op JT;

De hoop u allen heeft een grote dag!!!
How did you do that????????
Not bad at all!

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Old 12-05-2003, 02:35 PM
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Didn't want to destroy the image!!!

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Old 12-05-2003, 02:37 PM
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Can anyone explain this Sinterklaas to me. I read about while I was in Holland, but I still don't understand why you guys get presents way before christmas... And what's with the black guy?

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Old 12-05-2003, 02:42 PM
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Sinterklaas is St. Nicholas who is the patron saint of children and he was born on December 6th. He is actually Santa Clause although the rest of the world incorporated St. Nick with Christmas some didn't and kept his birthday as the day children get presents. Sinterklaas lives in Spain and every year he comes to Holland by boat and stays in Holland (or Belgium) to give the good children presents. The bad children get taken back to Spain to work for him and they are taken by the Zwarte Pieten (Black Peters). They are St. Nick's helpers and very naughty and only want fun.

That's all I know really.

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Old 12-05-2003, 02:46 PM
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Aloha !

From the chatlog with Tom on MSN when I tryed to explain it to him on a day that my English was very bad :

Supersonic says :
Its a Dutch story. It's a man who's very rich and lives in Spain. He's got all sorts of Zwarte Pieten, which are his helpers. He's able to walk on the roofs from houses with his horse, and he throws the packages thru the "schoorsteen, don't know the English word" from your house
Supersonic says :
you know, the thing from your roof of which smokes come from
Tom says:
chimney
Supersonic says :
yes
Supersonic says :
On December 5th it's an evening he visits all houses and he brings the big presents, though a few weeks before that evening you can put your shoe at the tight and the next day you'll get a small present in it.
Supersonic says :
That's Sinterklaas
Supersonic says :
As soon as no one in your family doesn't believe the story anymore, you don't celebrate it with all this, but you make surprises for eachother and so on including poems.
Supersonic says :
Or you just don't celebrate it anymore.

That's about it, I hope you understand it now. Tom did. :P

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He was being polite Sebastiaan!!

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I understood that and I knew about as much about it, but why "Zwarte Pieten" and why does Sinterklaas give presents? What's the story behind the tradition? Why would he give presents to the Dutch? Why not Spanish? Iäm confused...

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Old 12-05-2003, 02:52 PM
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I understood that and I knew about as much about it, but why "Zwarte Pieten" and why does Sinterklaas give presents? What's the story behind the tradition? Why would he give presents to the Dutch? Why not Spanish? Iäm confused...

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I explained that didn't I....

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Old 12-05-2003, 02:57 PM
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I explained that didn't I....
Oops, sorry, I didn't see your post...

So you guys get presents on two days in December, that's unfair.

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