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For this internship, I deliberately chose something far outside my comfort zone. I moved to Uganda. Alone. \u2018Why?\u2019 you may ask. Because I believe real growth and learning only happen when you step beyond what feels safe. The easy choice rarely teaches you anything. That said, it\u2019s not for the weak \ud83d\ude09
\u201cMzungu\u201d est le premier mot que j\u2019ai appris ici. Cela signifie \u2018personne blanche\u2019. Il faut \u00eatre pr\u00e9par\u00e9: en marchant dans la rue, les locaux te pointent du doigt et crient \u201cMzungu !\u201d. Tu re\u00e7ois \u00e9norm\u00e9ment d\u2019attention. Si tu as toujours voulu savoir ce que \u00e7a fait d\u2019\u00eatre c\u00e9l\u00e8bre, viens en Ouganda. Ce n\u2019est pas ma partie pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9e, mais c\u2019est quelque chose qu\u2019il faut accepter.
\u201cBanange!\u201d is a word I hear constantly at the office. It loosely translates to something like \u201cthis is not easy\u201d or \u201coh man.\u201d This one word reveals a lot about the culture: it\u2019s highly relationship-oriented, indirect in communication, and generally more laid-back when it comes to work. Besides working as an event coordinator, I thus also try to bring structure into the daily chaos at ViaVia by creating an event manual and an AI-based reporting system.
\u201cMatoke\u201d est un plat traditionnel ougandais. C\u2019est vraiment similaire \u00e0 de la pur\u00e9e de pommes de terre, mais avec des bananes. On en mange presque tous les jours comme repas du personnel. Mais m\u00eame l\u00e0, il faut \u00eatre rapide, sinon les singes peuvent voler ta nourriture. <\/p>\n\n\n
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Overall, being an intern here comes with significant responsibility. You are expected to support management, organize events from concept to execution, and introduce structure where needed.
Si tu es pr\u00eat \u00e0 travailler de longues journ\u00e9es vari\u00e9es et sociales, que tu as beaucoup de patience et que tu veux vraiment t\u2019immerger dans une culture tr\u00e8s diff\u00e9rente de la Belgique, un stage \u00e0 ViaVia Entebbe peut \u00eatre une exp\u00e9rience extr\u00eamement enrichissante.
The pearl of Africa is calling, are you ready to be ViaVia\u2019s next mzungu?
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Il est dix heures du matin quand j\u2019arrive \u00e0 ViaVia Entebbe, un caf\u00e9 et h\u00f4tel pour voyageurs o\u00f9 je travaille. Je prends un caf\u00e9 glac\u00e9 au bar tout en discutant avec de nouveaux voyageurs avant que mes coll\u00e8gues arrivent au bureau. For this internship, I deliberately chose something far outside my comfort zone. I moved … Lees verder “Mzungu, Banange, Matoke”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":951,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geen-categorie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pavQFa-1FT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.mm.ehb.be\/trm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.mm.ehb.be\/trm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.mm.ehb.be\/trm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.mm.ehb.be\/trm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/951"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.mm.ehb.be\/trm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6441"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.mm.ehb.be\/trm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6460,"href":"https:\/\/sites.mm.ehb.be\/trm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441\/revisions\/6460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.mm.ehb.be\/trm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.mm.ehb.be\/trm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.mm.ehb.be\/trm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}