Last month Promood celebrated the typical Dutch tradition of Sinterklaas with a whole bunch of its PhD members (and also one or two non-members who heard about the event through hearsay and decided to show up!) and it was a lot of fun! Every year Promood organizes the gift-exchanging event for Sinterklaas where everyone brings a small gift of up to 5 euro, which then gets thrown in a bag, shuffled with all the other gifts and distributed back to the participants. The gifts tend to be humorous and this year they ranged from pineapples all the way to collections of old classic books, complete with the tattered and stained look!

Whether you want to join next year's gift exchange or not (it's entirely optional, you can still show up without a gift, just don't expect one back), the party itself is still lots of fun and a great way to chill with your PhD colleagues before the Christmas holidays.

Wondering what the event looked like? Then read on for the photos!