Ten minutes before starting our Sinterklaas party on Thursday 4th, i checked the email and saw that I have had the short-stay for going to Japan 3 months!! Wow… after that, the party was quite good, with all the fun of the poems, weird wrappings and mojitos, … Sinterklaas also gave me a nice poem, a tiny light and a pair of wooden clogs!!!

On Friday we went to celebrate the good news to a heavy-metal-hardcore Sinterklaas concert in Zeist, close to Utrecht. A colleague (actually, an ex-colleague) from the Institute played with his band, called Grindpad …and was fun!!   http://www.peppel-zeist.nl/

On Sunday, today, still celebrating Japan with my friend Terhi in the sushibar…we ate so much sushi and sesame icecream!! And i just realized, taking to her, that the excellent ‘glog’ in Stockholm is not made with wine… but with blackcurrant juice! that’s the reason i liked so much….