Welcome back to another Student Blogging Challenge post.
What holidays do you celebrate? Is there a holiday that your family celebrates that others may not have heard of? (Let me know in the comments!)
If you didn’t already know, I was born in Leiden, Netherlands. Ik spreek een klein beijte Nederlands. (I speak a little bit of Dutch.) And when I went back to the Netherlands in 2018, I learned about a holiday called Kings day or Koningsdag.
Koningsdag is a national holiday in the Netherlands. Celebrated on April 27th, the date marks the birth of King Willem-Alexander. Kings day celebrations include partying, wearing orange, flea markets, concerts, and more!
Here is a really short YouTube video of Kings day in Amsterdam;
Here is a poem that I wrote about Koningsdag.
It’s April twenty seventh.
It’s Kings day, there is no work.
Orange, a colour so bright.
Partying till the day becomes night.
The celebration, oh so lively!
The pubs, filled to the brim.
The canals, flooded with boats,
With pure cheer, “long live the king!”
Here is the same poem but in Dutch:
Het is zevenentwintigste april.
Het is Koningsdag, er is geen werk.
Oranje, een kleur zo vrolijk.
Feesten tot de dag wordt nacht.
De viering, oh zo levendig!
De kroeg, gevuld naar de rand.
De grachten, overstroomd met boten.
Met pure blijheid, “lang leven het Koning!”
Well I hope that you learned something new and thank you for reading my post!
As always, Brooke.