Maybe you have heard of the Dutch tradition Sinterklaas, that we celebrate on the 6th of December each year. Last week it was Sinterklaas week in the Netherlands. The celebration is about a tall old man with a beard, Saint Nicolas, who comes from Spain...
As I am sitting on my desk in my house at Sanchez Street, which is halfway on a hill, I have a beautiful overview over the city. I am looking at downtown area now, watching the towers in the city center with the Bay Bridge...
MURALS ARE AMAZING! This city: soo many murals! All so beautiful! Everywhere, you name it, different colors, different designs, different sizes, overlapping, at random places, as advertisement, political statement, out of boredom, telling a story, but all as beautiful art, thank you San Francisco for all...
My first Thanksgiving happened in Gillroye, California, with the family of my friend Anne Marie. Her father is from Illenois, her mother from Montreal. Interesting to observe the different backgrounds and ways they were behaving around each other. The mother of Anne Marie was incredibly conservative....
ARGH! I am so jealous of all those people that actually had the patience to learn to play an instrument when they were young. I tried the violin, the piano, and bought myself a guitar to force myself to learn to play it; my impatience...
Now that I have been living on Sanchez Street (Castro/Mission) for 5 months, I am kind of allowed to say that I start to know the neighbourhood. Of course I still have not experienced the place throughout all seasons, being at all different places and...
Since we are all not from here and we all want to share whatever we are doing and seeing here with our people back at home, we are all related to the question why we actually take photos. I have always been very excited in taking...
I am Dutch, I love biking. Stop. I thought that there was a correlation between the two, but apparently I am one of the only Dutchies in San Francisco that is actually biking. People are not living after their stereotypes, which is a shame because this is...
December is here, for all the J1 students the last month at San Francisco State University. Final exams coming up next week, last classes, many hours of studying. Almost no time to realize that it is going to be over soon, maybe you are already going...
Sunday morning, too many drinks on Saturday, you know it. Emma and I were to going to give in to our hangover, or let it at least be a Holy Hangover. Time to go to Glide Merorial Church in Tenderloin! If you feel like having...