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(Yes, number 301 to watch it!) One of Belgium's prides is taking over the US, as of the end of September 2013!

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International Workshop – USA 2013

USA 2013 - International Workshop

Two weeks of intense intercultural branding, experiencing and business gaming. 

That's what I'm going for.

More than 30 people from KHLeuven University College applied with a motiviation letter. Mine, which you can read down here, enabled me to end up within the last ten. Unfortunately only six people are allowed to go. Therefore I will have an interview with the responsible professor somewhere this week. #USA2013!

MOTIVATION LETTER : THIBAULT SCHROVEN - INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

After seeing the presentation concerning the business game and exchange in the United States of America, I knew right away I was going to apply for the program. It just sounds so great and instructive that I can’t imagine someone not wanting to experience a two-week exchange with students from across the globe!  I would be honored if I would be given the chance to represent our country and college abroad. Also, I am convinced that I will learn a lot during these two weeks. Not only about business and management but also about the United States, the American culture and lifestyle and the ideas, habits and experiences of students from other nationalities competing with us during this International Workshop.

Thibault Schroven: who am I?

I am a 22-year old student of Advanced Business Management, majoring in Marketing Communication (BABM). Last year, I graduated as a Bachelor in Marketing, also at the KHLeuven. During my previous years here, I have already represented our college in Finland, during the International Marketing Week in Lahti (2011), in the Netherlands, where our team was one of the finalists of the HBO Talentenprijs in Groningen (2012) and in France, during my Erasmus semester at the ESC Rennes in Brittany (2011). All these times I had the pleasure to represent our college and meet new people from all over the world. I think these experiences might qualify myself as an ‘Experienced (International) Business Game Participant’.

But it is not only thanks to the KHLeuven that I am internationally oriented. When I was only 16, I spent a semester as an exchange student with AFS Intercultural Programs in Austria and after my high school I went on another exchange to Argentina, where I lived for 10 months and learned Spanish.

Why I believe I deserve a place in the KHLeuven – USA team

I can be clear about the fact that for me, there is no issue to start talking with total strangers and to learn to live and work together with them. I enjoy facing the unknown, taking on new challenges and hoping for the best, which usually means living and feeling an extraordinary experience which enriches me as a student and as a person.

Whenever I am around a group of people, I easily adapt myself to their culture and way of living, without forgetting where I am from or who I am. I will easily connect to them and I am convinced that if I would be on board of the plane which is going to bring the KHLeuven students to the USA, all the participants won’t easily forget about “the Belgians”. I will ensure that by the end of our two-week trip, they will know all about our chocolate, beer, governmental system and our importance, as capital of Europe, for the European Union and the world itself.

Thanks to my previous experiences with (international) business games, I am already aware of how these work and where I need to pay attention. I am not only willing to go to the USA to represent our college, I want to go and perform the best I can in order to win this competition!

3 Positive points of myself

As stated before I am an active, motivated an life enjoying young man from Sint-Katelijne-Waver during the beginning of my years of maturity. My greatest motivation is my will to absorb (intercultural) business experiences and meeting new, interesting, open and broadminded people with different backgrounds than my own. In order to reach my goal, I enjoy using different languages and ways of living that I don’t always, but every day a bit more, master well. As stated before, I am very proud of being a Belgian and I am super motivated to perform well in a multi-cultural environment. We are living in a globalizing world but it is my opinion that we must never forget, nor neglect, where we are from.

Secondly I am very well at performing in groups. I have been active in the boy scouts and now I am a volunteer for AFS, which implicates organizing weekends for youngsters and work together with others to make these events the best. Another of my positive points is my multilingualism. Broadly taken I speak five languages:  Dutch, French, Spanish, English and German. This means that I’ll be able to speak to a lot of the students in their own language which will facilitate our communication and enable us to get to know each other faster in order to work better during the group work.

2 Negative points of myself

One of my negative points is that sometimes I can be very impatient. When I work, I want to work effectively and efficiently and for me there’s no time to fool around. I want to finish the job as soon and as good as possible.

Secondly I find it hard to critically evaluate myself. I have no problem with judging and evaluating the performances of other people, but sometimes I catch myself on critically evaluating co-students for doing things I do as well.

Ideas for a Belgian evening

One of my ideas would be to teach one verse of our Belgian national anthem (both in Flemish and French) to our fellow students. I would hand them out the lyrics and teach it to them. This will probably lead to funny and weird expressions on the faces of co-students, but will be very entertaining for  us all.

A second idea would be to present Belgian specialties, like our fries, chocolate, beer, the Atomium, Bruges, Manneken Pis,.., etc. by playing the world famous game of Pictionary.

I would be very delighted if I would be allowed to travel to the USA, a country I don’t know yet, and participate to this International Workshop. It would be the perfect opportunity to see if, after four years of KHLeuven, I am able to work professionally with a team of people whom I’ve never met and ensure that my knowledge helps to improve the final result of our team. Obviously I hope that this letter was able to convince you of my motivation to be a part of this trip to represent KHLeuven and Belgium in a foreign country. I sincerely hope to get to know the USA in a different way in 2012 because I am sure that this unique experience will certainly help me in my future career. As I state on my weblog (thibaultintheworld.blogspot.com):Experiences are the key to success.

Yours faithfully

Thibault Schroven

Marketing Communication (BABM)

Advanced Business Management

Intercultural experiences in the east – Warsaw

During our hunt for train tickets from Warsaw to Poznan, in the main train station of Munich, I suddenly got pushed by a (drunk?) Polish male, around 40years old. He asked me: “Why do you have a patch (=sticker on backpack) showing Che Guevara? We do not like him here! We do not like Communism! Take it off!” As I tried to explain him that I did not feel anything positive, nor negative, towards communism, but that I had only put it on because I had been to Argentina, he did not believe me and told me to take it off again. “We do not like communism here! You should know that we used to have communism and we did not like it.” He then walked off and luckily we did not have any other problems with anti-communist people afterwards. Except maybe, for a 60-year old drunk Polish guy on the bus in Krakow, shouting to the whole bus that some people facing him, no one of our group though, were communists, just as the mayor of Krakow and that they would destroy the city.

I understand that communism was overthrown only twenty years ago, while it overruled Poland for more than 40years, but I do think that some people, mostly elderly, still live with the fear that one day it might come back. Stop looking to the past, stop looking at what happened, but use that past, use that (negative) experience to deploy and develop yourself and your country to a bright new future! 

Ernesto 'el Che' Guevara

Cuatro años atras cambio mi vida

Escuchalo, que te va gustar!

Mi querido Fl. Ameghino,

Hoy, 24 de agosto 2012, hace cuatro años que empezé la aventura más grande de mi vida. Salí por la mañana muy temprano de mi casa en Mechelen, llendo para el aeropuerto de Bruselas, Belgica. Vía Madrid llegé a Buenos Aires a las 22.00 de la noche. Era las 04.00 en Bélgica y estaba muy cansado.

Después de un campamento muy lindo con AFS Programas Interculturales Argentina, con chicos de todo el mundo, y de siete horas de viaje en colectivo llegé a Florentino Ameghino, mi secunda tierra natal. Ahi me recibio la familia Liébana, la mejor familia del mundo si me lo preguntes, y ahi tamién empezo mi verdadera experiencia de ser un chico de intercambio en un pueblo chiquito en las pampas de América del Sur.

Fue un año inolvidable con muchos encuentros que cambiaron, o por lo menos, influenciaron, mi vida. En la escuela Mariano Moreno nro. 3, en el club atletico, en el gimnasio, en el campo, en conciertos, durante noches que a veces tardaban hasta las nueve de la mañana, en las casas de mis compañeros y sus amigos, en Media Luna Polo Club, en casamientos de personas que ni conocía en esta época, durante muchísimos asados y durante mis viajes hacia el sur, el este, el norte y el oeste de Argentina La Linda, me hice amigas y amigos para la vida que hasta hoy influyen mi manera de ser. Me enseñaron tantas cosas que ni si quiero podría escribirlas todas.

Os quiero agradecer, amigos argentinos, por todo lo que hicieron por mi. Y espero que de alguna manera o la otra, también aprendieron algo de Europa, de Belgica y de mi.

Muchas gracias y hasta pronto espero.

‘Chau che’

El belga barbaro

Motivatiebrief MICA (Lessius Mechelen)

So... last week I decided I might be interested into following the MICA-studies at Lessius Mechelen (Manager in Interactive Communication), a one year postgraduate.
Today, on the last day of the deadline, I sent in my CV and Motivation Letter and I thought I'd share it with the world. (Sorry, it's in Dutch)

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Motivatiebrief Postgraduaat MICA Lessius Mechelen 20 Augustus 2012 Thibault Schroven

Motivatiebrief MICA – Thibault Schroven

Als er iets is wat ik ongelooflijk moeilijk vind, is het wel het schrijven van een motivatiebrief. Uiteraard is het belangrijk dat iemand zijn sterke punten kan neerschrijven, en dat ga ik in deze brief ook doen, maar toch vind ik het ergens moeilijk om mijn kwaliteiten neer te schrijven. Mijn ijdelheid wat extra boosten is niet waar ik op uit ben. Ik wil namelijk straight to the point komen: zeggen waarom ik vind dat ik een plaats bij de 15 MICA-studenten van 2012-2013 verdien. In deze tekst ga ik uitleggen waarom ik, Thibault Schroven, graag aan de Lessius hogeschool zou komen studeren.

Deze brief is dan ook opgedeeld in twee delen: een deel waarin ik schrijf wat ik te bieden heb, waarin ik mijzelf voorstel en uitleg waarom ik denk dat ik beter ben dan andere kandidaten, en een deel waarin ik opsom wat mijn verwachtingen van deze studie zijn. Want uiteraard wil ik op het einde van deze rit, op het einde van het schooljaar, het gevoel hebben dat dit jaar een meerwaarde was voor mij en mijn toekomstige carrière.

Wat ik MICA te bieden heb

Als afgestudeerde Marketing-student van de KHLeuven, ben ik vertrouwd met alles wat met marketing en bedrijfsmanagement te maken heeft. Kotler kent voor mij geen geheimen meer en ook Microsoft Office en efficiënte bedrijfscommunicatie zijn zaken waar ik een meer dan gemiddelde kennis van heb. Het is de echte toegepaste praktijk van al die theorie die ik nu zoek.

Tijdens mijn deelnames aan het AFS-uitwisselingsprogramma, een trimester in Oostenrijk in 2006 en een jaar in Argentinië in 2008-2009, en het Erasmusprogramma, in Frankrijk in de herfst van 2011, heb ik laten zien dat ik mijzelf snel kan aanpassen aan andere talen, culturen en leer- en werkwijzen.

Ik ben niet alleen zeer internationaal gericht, maar heb ook verschillende malen succesvol deelgenomen aan verschillende marketing- en businessgames zoals: KHLeuven Business Game Award (finalist 2010), International Marketing Week: Environmental Marketing (Finland, 2011), HBO Talentenprijs (finalist, Nederland, 2012) etc. waardoor mijn kennis en capaciteiten van de marketingwereld drastisch uitgebreid zijn.

Tijdens mijn studies aan de KHLeuven heb ik ook de kans gekregen om aan een bedrijfsstage deel te nemen. Tijdens mijn twaalf weken durende stage bij het teleshoppingbedrijf XXXXXXXXXX, bekend van XXXXXXXX op televisie, heb ik de echte praktische kneepjes van het marketingjargon in de bedrijfswereld leren toepassen.

Mijn sterke punten zijn dat ik een sociaal persoon die verschillende talen, Nederlands, Frans, Engels, Duits en Spaans, vloeiend spreekt en deze ook actief gebruikt. Ik ben een goed planner en neem vaak het initiatief in de organisatie van kleine en grote projecten zoals weekends, evenementen, etc. Ik ben een vrijwilliger bij AFS interculturele programma’s vzw en help daarbij jongeren om zich voor te bereiden op hun uitwisselingsjaar in het buitenland. Verder ben ik actief bij een studentenclub waar ik al quaestor voor was. Dit bewijst mijn drang naar correctheid en perfect, de clubkassa is immers datgene wat al de rest beïnvloedt. Volgens mij blijkt hieruit dat ik een creatief en nauwkeurig werker ben die regelmatig en graag leidinggevende taken op zich neemt. Toen ik nog bij de Franstalige scouts zat, was mijn totem adjectief niet voor niets ‘zélé’, wat zoveel betekent als ijverig.

Mijn zwakke punten zijn wellicht uitgebreider in aantel dan mijn sterke. Maar ik denk dat het normaal is dat iemand zijn sterktes makkelijker en beter in de schijnwerpers kan zetten dan zijn zwaktes. Ik ben een ongeduldig en onrustig persoon die snel afgeleid is als het niet vooruitgaat. Ik kan andere personen wel snel en kritische evalueren, om bij mezelf hetzelfde te doen ontbreekt mij echter nog wat kritische analysedrang.

Deze zwakkere punten nemen echter niet weg dat ik enorm gemotiveerd ben om van mijn MICA-studies een uitstekende en leerrijke ervaring te maken. Ik ben bereid om te werken en te studeren om op het einde van het jaar een mooi rapport te kunnen voorleggen. Niet alleen voor mijn ouders, de school of het bedrijf waar ik stage zal lopen, maar ook, en vooral, voor mezelf. Want ik vind het nog altijd het belangrijkst dat ikzelf het gevoel zal hebben, na een jaar werken en studeren, dat ik iets bijgeleerd heb dat mij later in mijn carrière ten goede zal komen.

Wat ik van MICA verwacht

Meerwaarde

Het is logisch dat ik verwacht een meerwaarde te zijn voor een bedrijf na mijn studies aan de Lessius hogeschool. Ik ben ervan overtuigd dat ik dankzij MICA mijzelf zal onderscheiden van andere sollicitanten in een bedrijf.

De gedoceerde vakken interesseren me en ik ben ervan overtuigd dat de lectoren uit de bedrijfswereld, stuk voor stuk kenners van hun vak, hun kennis op een intrigerende manier zullen overbrengen. Het hoofdvak voor MICA is Project Management. Volgens mij is management één van de pijlers van een bedrijf. Het is essentieel dat het een team vormt met werknemers om op een efficiënte wijze een bedrijf goed te laten functioneren.

Ook sociale en interactieve aspecten komen aan bod. Beide onderwerpen zijn interessant en zullen in de toekomst een grote invloed hebben op de manier waarop bedrijven zullen communiceren met de consument.

Intens

Zeven weken les en maar liefst twintig weken stage. Het is duidelijk dat mij een intense en leerrijke ervaring te wachten staat. Hoewel ik aan de KHLeuven ook een stage van twaalf weken heb doorlopen, vond ik dat ik op het einde nog dat beetje meer ervaring miste om mij op te arbeidsmarkt te kunnen onderscheiden. Ik hoop dan ook tijdens deze opleiding een functionele en passende stage te lopen die mijn carrière een boost zal geven. Ik ben bereid om mij hier helemaal voor in te zetten en zal mijn uiterste best doen om een positief eindresultaat te kunnen neerzetten.

Concurrentie

Alleen de beste sollicitanten, de uitverkorenen, mogen deelnemen aan de MICA-opleiding. De eis van Lessius om een motivatiebrief en CV door te sturen en een sollicitatiegesprek te doorlopen voordat ik nog maar aan de opleiding kan beginnen, is een duidelijk voorbeeld van deze competitie. Het is voor mij een eer dat ik deel kan uitmaken van deze voorselectie, maar ik hoop uiteraard dat ik uitgenodigd zal worden voor een sollicitatiegesprek. Tijdens dit sollicitatiegesprek zal blijken dat ik over capaciteiten beschik die een voor bedrijf zeker positief zullen uitdraaien.

Ambitie

Hoewel MICA nog maar vier jaar bestaat, is het duidelijk dat Lessius, samen met de betrokken stagebedrijven, een duidelijk doel voor ogen heeft: jongeren een kans geven om in de toekomst een duidelijk verschil te maken als Young Manager in Interactieve Communicatie. Ik deel deze ambitie en wil graag deel uitmaken van dit project. Ik wil graag dankzij MICA nog meer ervaring opdoen, want dat is waar bedrijven vandaag de dag naar op zoek zijn: gemotiveerde jongeren met ervaring.

Zoals mijn eigen levensleuze luidt: Experiences are the key to success.

EEET2012 – Day 18 – Salzburg (Austria)

On the 19^th we said goodbye to our Argentinean friends in Tagmersheim and took the train back to Munich. We arrived there around 10P.M. and decided to have a bite near the train station. We bought a kebab, because we could AND because we wanted to try the Munich kebab. Sebastian, my German roommate in France, told us afterwards that kebab was originally invented by a Turkish guy in the seventies. People, be aware, one tip: do not ever eat kebab in Germany. Unlike in Belgium, where you can get around 10 different sauces on your kebab, here you will only get yoghurt sauce. (Dafuq?). Discusting as it was, we ate it anyway and headed to Sebastian’s apartment once more to rest out for the next part of EEET2012.

Where the F are we and what the F are we doing here? 

Day 18 was Austria-day. As we had failed to visit Brno in the Czech Republic we decided to go to Salzburg, Austria, instead as to ensure that we would visit 5 countries during our trip. We got up at 6.15A.M. (see mom,  I can get up way too early as well!) and took the 7.30 train from Munich – Salzburg. Once there, around 9A.M.-ish we put our bags in the lockers near the trains station. –Seriously people: if you have lockers and people can only pay with coins and none of the three closest bars/restaurant ‘have/want’ to change a note for coins, you should do something about it!- and hit the city centre.

Mozart and stuff

Around 11 we met up with Julia, one of my classmates from back in the days of AFS Trimester Program in Steyr, Austria! She had gone on AFS to the US and fell in love with the country. Toon and me were hoping she would show us the city, but she knew as little about Mozart’s birthplace as we did. That’s why at around noon we had figured out that we had seen everything of the city and we went to the park where ‘The Sound Of Music’ was filmed and had lunch. After some more walking around we decided to head back to the train station to maybe take an earlier train to Ljubljana, as this was our next stop on EEET2012. We said goodbye to Julia and headed back to the train station.

Unfortunately we were not able to change our travelling times, so we decided to stay in the McDonald’s next to the train station for 2hrs before we could set off to Ljubljana. To be able to get there we needed to change trains in Villach, Austria. On the way to Villach we were in a train full of Austrian festival-go-ers. Was nice to see that the festivalvibe is so strong in other countries too. But they were not going to a festival! They were all heading to ‘Grand Slam’ or something. Basically they would watch beach volleyball all day and drink while watching it. Not Bad I would say.

Once in Villach, and a few beers (and vodkashots given to us by these Austrians, who were almost forcing us to join them, but we didn’t) later, we got off. We decided to buy some more beers for ‘on the way’ and installed ourselves for another 2hours to Ljubljana. We were joined by a dutch couple and around 9P.M. we arrived at the Slovenian capital. What we did here will be for the next post!

peace out_

Toon&Thibault

EEET2012 – Day 15-17 – Munich and Tagmersheim (Germany)

On the 17th, day 15 of EEET2012, we were forced to get up around 7.30A.M., as our host, Sebastian, had to get to work early. We decided to go to Munich Hauptbahnhof and arrange our trip to Ljubljana right away. Which we did successfully, the seven hour trip would be done on Friday and we decided to do a six hour layover in Salzburg, to ensure that we visit five countries during our EEET2012. That was no problem. Unfortunately our search for free wifi failed there, so I was unable to update my blog before the next day.

Around 11A.M. we took a Free Walking Tour through Munich, hosted by a crazy Texan guy, called Austin (not joking you…). During a 2,5hour tour we got to see most of the historical city centre of Munich and learned a lot about Munich, Bayern and Germany. At noon we met up with Sebastian for a quick lunch on one of the many nice markets which Munich contains.

After lunch, Toon and me, decided to visit as much as was possible in one (short) afternoon. The English Garden, with its Chinese Tower, the Munich soccer stadion, Allianz Arena, the BMW-Museum and last but certainly not least, the Olympic village of the dramatic –remember the terrorist attack- Olympic Games of 1972. All these things were quite far from each other so after the Olympic Village, we decided to head back to the Hauptbahnhof and take our 1,5hr train ride to (train station: Dollnstein and then by car to) Tagmersheim.  

Allianz Arena - Bayern Munich

Chinese Tower - English Garden

Do not look to the back, as the future holds the answers

Why on earth would we go to a 700-people town in the middle of Bayern, you’re asking yourself? Good question! We went there to visit Segundo and Joaquin, two friends from Ameghino, Argentina! They are working there, together with three other Argentineans, as polo horse trainers. During six to eight months, they train the horses daily and play various tournaments, and in European winter they head back to Argentina to enjoy their summer holidays and play polo over there. Amazing place, where they are living at I must say. A completely renovated old Schloss and an amazing 25hectares of land surrounding it. I have to admit it, they have found themselves a good job for the next couple of months, maybe years!

After arriving in the train station of Dollnstein, Segundo came to pick us up and we went straight to a cheap and good Italian (and the only) restaurant in Tagmersheim, where we met up with everyone. Kate, Joaquin’s girlfriend, was also there. We had already briefly met in Ameghino in February last year, so it was nice to see this British Fraulein again as well. We had a good meal and when coming ‘home’ went straight to bed, sleeping until late the next day.

Argentineans, a Brittish and Belgians!

That next day was awesome. We had been travelling a lot the past few weeks, so two days of rest were more than welcome. And where better to rest than in a place, being hosted by Argentineans? At noon we had some delicious sausages with vegetables and potatoes (you see mom, we’re even eating healthy!) and of course the siesta was held as well. Next up was: horse practice. While the ‘big boys’ were playing polo, Toon and I each got a horse and we drove it easily and chill, with the occasional galloping of course, outside. A great day for horse riding actually. In the evening we chilled and enjoyed an evening outside in a pleasant summer temperature.

Next day was more or less the same story, although I would like to mention that we had (sort of) an asado (with hamburgers, so doesn’t really count), made by Segundo. Very nice indeed! Instead of riding a horse, I read a couple of chapters in my Lonely Planet - Eastern Europe during the afternoon, enjoying a mate or two. Around 7.30P.M., we said goodbye to Tagmersheim and my Argentinean friends –hoping to see them again sooner rather than later (except for maybe Joaquin, porque a veces es un poco boludo el pibe, jaja joda amigo!!) and took the train back to Munich, for another chilling night at Sebastian’s. Next stop: Salzburg (Austria) and Ljubljana (Slovenia)!

PS: in the 10 hours we actually walked around in Munich, we noticed not less than 34 Porsches. Those Germans and their cars…

peace out_

Toon&Thibault

EEET2012-inbetween

EEET 2012-update: Auschwitz: I am not usually speechless, but I really have no idea what to say about this... Hitting the pub now to forget the WWII-madness - vodkashots please ..

Anyway, Poland is coming to its end, flying to Munich (Krakow-Warsaw, Warsaw-Katowice, Katowice-Munich) on monday, meeting up with Erasmus & argentinean friends.

Biergarten here comes Belgium.

Supo Teevee: Café Doc goes international

The AFS Flanders head office was asked to come and talk about AFS during an interview for SUPO, a show made by journalism students of Lessius Mechelen. As the PR responsible couldn't make it out, they asked me to go over and 'do my thing'. Funny enough a friend of mine was the producer of the show.

All about AFS, London, the metalscene in Suriname, Bolivia and more in this (Dutch) show!

"Hoe verdien je een centje meer in Londen? Hoe ziet de metalscene eruit in Suriname? En wat is nu een typisch gerecht in Bolivië? Dit kom je allemaal te weten in deze speciale Café Doc met internationale toets."

Desde Belgica para Argentina

A mis amigos en Fl. Ameghino, y los en Argentina en general, les mando muchos saludos.

Lamento no poder estar ahi con ustedes este verano, pero no siempre se puede hacer lo que uno quiere. Ustedes saben que volveré seguro, pero ni yo se cuando.

Con este mensaje, os mando muchos saludos y os deseo un muy feliz Navidad y un prosper año 2012! Que el proxima siempre sea mejor que el anterior.

Ustedes cambieron mi vida, mi manera de pensar y mi manera de vivir. Ustedes son las personas que hicieron mi experiencia la mas buena de toda mi vida. Es bien y mal esto. Bien porque tuvé la suerte de vivir, trabajar, estudiar, festejar, viajar, reir, hacer deportes, llorar y todo lo demás con ustedes. Mal porque se que ninguna experiencia que viviré en mi vida; que aún no ya vivi -porque mi Erasmus en Francia también fue lo más- va ser tan buena como esta del 2008-2009, el año de mis años!

Muchas gracias por todo amigos ameghinenses, esta cancion se los dedico. Es de Selah Sue, una belga con mucha onda. Se llama Crazy Vibes, por los crazy vibes que me dan ustedes cada vez que voy por alla, o qu recibo alguien de ustedes en casa. Cuándo viene el proximo he?! Y esta cantante, lo linda que es!

Viva Belgica! Viva Florentino Ameghino!

Sunday afternoon

Enjoying the sun in the middle of November with Pablo, Argentina.

French Culture: To what extend do you consider your stay in Rennes as an intercultural experience?

French Culture: To what extend do you consider your stay in Rennes as an intercultural experience?

For the course of French Culture, I was asked to describe my intercultural experiences in Rennes. This is a hard question as I could easily answer it in a couple of phrases, but then I would not make myself clear and people who have never experienced a intercultural experience, wouldn’t understand what I am talking about. I could also write a book about it, but then I would start talking about all kinds of examples that, in the end, wouldn’t really matter as I would just put them in because I think they are important. Defining an intercultural experience is hard as I believe that everyone who has ever experienced it, will accord importance to different things than others.

A good quote I found recently might motivate people to have an intercultural experience. I found it on the website of the AFS Intercultural Programs ngo Office (www.afs.org):

-“Need reasons why to do an exchange year?

Here you go: I am an exchange student. How do you know what is a dream if you never accomplished one. How do you know what is an adventure if you never took part in one. How do you know what is anguish if you never said goodbye to your family and friends with your eyes full of tears. How do you know what is being desperate, if you never arrived in a place alone and could not understand a word of what everyone else was saying. How do you know what is diversity if you never lived under the same roof with people from all over the world? How do you know what is tolerance, if you never had to get used to something different even if you didn’t like it. How do you know what is autonomy, if you never had the chance to decide something by yourself? How do you know what it means to grow up, if you never stopped being a child to start a new course? How do you know what is to be helpless, if you never wanted to hug someone and had a computer screen to prevent you from doing it. How do you know what is distance, if you never, looking at a map, said “ I am so far away”. How do you know what is a language, if you never had to learn one to make friends. How do you know what is patriotism, if you never shouted “ I love my country” holding a flag in your hands. How do you know what is the true reality, if you never had the chance to see a lot of them to make one. How do you know what is an opportunity, if you never caught one. How do you know what is pride, if you never experienced it for yourself at realizing how much you have accomplished. How do you know what is to seize the day, if you never saw the time running so fast. How do you know what is a friend, if the circumstances never showed you the true ones. How do you know what is a family, if you never had one that supported you unconditionally . How do you know what are borders, if you never crossed yours , to see what there was on the other side. How do you know what is imagination, if you never thought about the moment when you would go back home. How do you know the world, if you have never been an exchange student? “-

When I read this, I was absolutely blown away as I just can’t explain my feelings about an intercultural experience abroad in a better way. I could totally find myself in all of these statements and in this paper I will try to explain why.

But to be able to make you understand why I agree so much, I have to start my story a couple of years ago. Before going on my Erasmus to Rennes, I had already participated in various exchange programs. During the fall semester of 2006 I lived for three months with a host family in Sierning, Austria. This life-changing experience, I was barely sixteen when I left my parent’s house, opened my mind and confronted me with the fact that there are bigger things than my own little town in Belgium and my friends and family there. It motivated me to, after finishing high school in 2008, go abroad for a whole school year. From August 2008 until June 2009, I lived with a wonderful host family in a precious but isolated little town in the centre of Argentina. During this year, in which I repeated my last year of high school with the local students, I learned more than just Spanish.

Just as in Austria, in Argentina I got to know the local culture and way of living of the ‘natives’ of the country I was staying in. I enjoyed to plunge into different cultures and get to know the way people think about me, as a Belgian, European, “first world” inhabitant, etc. as this not only helps me to form a view of myself but also of the way foreigners look at me and my fellow compatriots.

But it’s not only about talking and listening to local people from countries you’re staying in which is interesting, it’s also very instructive to talk with other exchange students who are living the same experience as you are at the moment you meet them. One of the best memories I have of my exchange experiences in both Austria and Argentina are the long discussions I had with other students who were experiencing more or less the same situation I was in at that moment. Their opinions about my culture, my way of living, etc., for as far as they knew anything about it, were very interesting for me to hear as it taught me not only a lot about me, but also about the way people look at my little Belgian country.

You can talk with these young stars about your countries’ culture, religion, sports, hobbies, habits, life styles, composition of families, politics, economies, history and so on, while they will tell you about theirs. Sometimes this might be very boring, but you will always learn from it and it will influence, and often enhance, your way of looking at how things are done in your own country.

All the above experiences made me want to go abroad again directly when I got back from Argentina. This is why I chose to go on an Erasmus. But this time it was different. I didn’t just leave Belgium to meet other people and cultures, although that is a big part of it of course, I also came to Rennes to study business. That’s why I think the experience I am having here in Rennes is not entirely comparable to my other intercultural experiences. Yes, I am here to meet people from all over the world and learn with and from them, and yes, I am enjoying it so much to be, once again, surrounded by so many wonderful people from totally different backgrounds, but I’m also here to prepare myself for my future life as a business man. This is why I believe that my purpose here should be to meet, chat and discuss with people, whom I have never even met before, about more than their culture, habits and ways of living. I should also talk with them about companies, businesses and economy to get to know their view about these subjects. I must emphasize though, that this doesn’t implicate that I am not having casual conversations with them. Because I am, as some of them have already become friends for life and that’s what friends do; they talk about what’s happening in their direct environment. I must admit that this kind of so-called ‘business’ conversations haven’t taken place often, as they still might be very boring for some of my companions, but nevertheless I’ve had some really interesting inputs on, for example, the economical crisis and the influence of the Arabian revolutions on the world economy.

My Erasmus here in Brittany is a unique possibility to get to know future business people and to build up a network with them that could help me as well as them when we are working. Nowadays, due to globalization and the high quantity of people that continue studying after high school, there is a non-negligible competition on pretty much every business market in the world. There are more people who study the same as me and that want to become exactly what I would like to become one day: a successful business man in a multinational intercultural company.

This is why networking is so important. I know that a lot of the people I am meeting here in Rennes are going to become successful business men and it would be foolish not to want to stay in touch with them in the future. It might sound very selfish but it’s true. The more people you know, the better. Of course this also implicates that when people I know ask me for help, I should do the best I can to help them. I would like to add to that that I am not here just to network. I am here in Rennes to have a wonderful experience together with marvelous people that I feel so lucky of having met. 

To come back on the business part of intercultural experiences, I think it is very interesting to have courses such as Project and Strategic Management because in this way one gets to know how people from other cultures work and what their view is on the way a company should work. It is obvious that people from Russia will approach a project in a different way than people from Spain. This could lead to good as well as bad results and that is why a project manager, for instance, should have some intercultural experience to be able to lead the whole project in a professional way. I already experienced these cultural differences in some group works I took part in during my stay at ESC Rennes and I must say that I’ve had some surprisingly successful experiences with Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Finnish, Danish, Polish and Belgian students.

But I don’t want to wonder off topic. I think it’s clear by now that I am convinced that this experience in Rennes is definitely an intercultural experience. I already said that the networking and studying is a reason for me to be on Erasmus, as I am getting to the age that I shouldn’t just be thinking about where to get drunk this weekend, but I will neither deny that the partying with people from all over the world isn’t a great part of being on Erasmus in Rennes.

I think that, because my past intercultural experiences were a longer time ago, I can better place those experiences in space and time, while the Erasmus I am living now here in Rennes is still ongoing. This is probably the reason for why I am not able to describe my thoughts and feelings about it in the way I would like to. Not yet anyway, but I am convinced that after I get back to Belgium in December I will be able to accord the correct importance to all my encounters and experiences I had here in Rennes and I will be happy to rewrite an essay about my Erasmus when it’s completely over.

I would like to finish this essay by using my own motto: “Experiences are the key to success” because I strongly believe that the more experience a person gains in his life, the more goals he will be able to achieve. To conclude, I am more than sure that my Erasmus in Rennes is an intercultural experience which I am enjoying to the fullest by meeting and interacting with extraordinary fellow international students who come from places I’ve never even heard off. 

Note: this course was teached by R. L. dit Arsène and this essay was written by myself, all copyrights reserved. This is only partly my opinion, as I had to slightly adapt it in order to comply to what I think he likes.. :)

R.I.P. Stevo

I know this is a bit out of date, as this all happened about two months ago, but I couldn't just let it pass.

On the 31st of August 2011 a friend of mine, Stevo Grisales, was walking home in London. I met Stevo in Argentina when I was there on my Exchange Programm in 2008-2009. We had a mutual friend and every time I went to Buenos Aires, we met up for partying of just hanging around with other international people. He was born in Venezuala, one parent being English and the other Argentinian (if I'm right), but lived in Argentina for about five years in total. He always wanted to go to London to study, he had told me several times we would then meet up in Europe when he would finally come over. This July it was finally the case, he got to London and from all I know he was having a blast, preparing to start his studies of Architecture.

Untill he was the wrong person on the wrong place on the wrong time... On the 31st of August he came out of the subway and some kids, 16-18year olds started throwing stuff at hem, just like they did at other people. Stevo told them, the gentlemen he was, to stop. But unfortunately they didn't as they were thinking they were superawesome doing what they were doing. An argument occured and one of them, a 16year-old if my information is correct, took a knife and stabbed Stevo in the brest. He was badly injured and died that same day of his unjuries.
La historia en Español     -     The story in English
I don't know what those kids wanted to make clear, but they destroyed not only their own lives, but also the Stevo's, Stevo's family and all his relatives, not forgetting the influence these actions had on Stevo's many friends and acquaintances, to which I believe I can count myself. Still today, more than two months later, people post comments, pictures and video's on his Facebook, trying to process what happened.

We all think it only happens to people we don't know. So did I, untill last August.

See you Stevo, we had fun as long as it lasted. Argentina was the best year of my life and you were part of it bro...

El Mató A Un Policia Motorizado - Chica Rutera

This really is a roadtrip song. That roadtripping... I really want and need to do that someday, a lazy summer or autumn week. Just with some friends, take the car, some good music and off we are.

Cabeza Flotante - band from Fl. Ameghino

Website: < Cabeza Flotante: Ningún Lugar LP (2010) >

El Noroeste de la provincia de Buenos Aires, fue ilustrado , por el primer escritor pop de Argentina Manuel Puig, como una zona donde las nubes y el aire pareciera teñirse de sangre, lágrimas, amor y fiebre, pudiendo tomar por sorpresa a cualquiera que habitase dicha zona para bien y para mal.

Cabeza Flotante es una banda originaria de esos pagos geográficos, (Ameghino), que van a influenciar su música y arte. El campo, el romance, la tragedia de la periferia y su felicidad emífera, al huir para siempre hacia la Ciudad.

Integrada por los hermanos Lamothe, (Manolo en batería, Nacho en guitarras, teclados, programaciones, voz y coros, Antonio en guitarras, bajo, teclados, voz, coros y melódica, y Marcos en guitarra y voz), su música migra por momentos al dream pop de  principios de los 90’, y por otros momentos a la actitud más campestre, del folk rutero de los 70, de bandas como Big Star.

Así, con programaciones y suaves teclados y en sintonía con las influencias antes mencionadas, arranca el disco con “Abro Mi Placard”, y esa suerte de boggie romántico que es “Tus Ojos”, hasta llegar a “Lejos del Sol”.

Dicha canción, comienza con una estructura acústica, que cuaja perfecto con la voz, conjugando una postal de sentimiento eterno, dónde amor, distancia, romance y tristeza, remueve la tradición de que el amor de verdad se construye en transición o movimiento, y no como creemos la mayoría de nosotros en un mismo y solo lugar.

Luego pasan “De Acero”, “Tiempo”, “Cuando estas Acá”, todas en una misma sintonía agradable hasta llegar a “En tu Cabeza”, una pieza musical con tendencia al nuevo rock americano de los 90’, de bandas como Brian Jonestown Massacre, en dónde “el aceite borroso de las noches”, es homenajeado como purgador de todos los males y tristezas acumulados.

Así en el final del disco destacan, temas como “La Dueña”, “Los Ruidos del Mundo” y “Las Canciones”.

Quizá “Ningún Lugar”, más allá de ser el nombre del disco, representa un estado de ánimo, expresado a través doce canciones, que entre la añoranza, (por el romance que no fue), y la esperanza, ( por el amor que vendrá), dan cuenta que lo único que sigue importando más allá de todo y todos, son los sentimientos profundos que conmueven como el amor, y obvio, la buena música.

El disco fue grabado entre el 2009 y 2010, en el home estudio de Cabeza Flotante, ubicado en Parque Centenario.

Tracklist

1. Abro mi Placard (4:42)
2. Tus Ojos (4:06)
3. Lejos del Sol (3:06)
4. De Acero (3:56)
5. Tiempo (2:26)
6. Cuando Estas Acá (4:31)
7. En Tu Cabeza (3:57)
8. La Dueña (4:59)
9. De Noche (5:01)
10. Los Ruidos del Mundo (4:05)
11. Los Chicos (3:13)
12. Las Canciones (3:49)

Duración Total: 47:57

Survived Pukkelpop 2011 - so stfu -

So basically.. I think you’ve all heard the story about the Pukkelpop festival 2011 drama.  I will try not to irritate you with just another story but I want to share my story with you, with a lot of links to articles I found online.

This year was my sixth time at my favourite festival. The alternative rock festival called Pukkelpop, located at Kiewit, Hasselt – Belgium ( www.pukkelpop.be ). And, just as last year, I was going to go with my Irish friend Gearoid, but because he had Argentinean friends coming over, I ended up going with Jonas Engels. My friend that went on an exchange to Argentina, the same year as I did.

I was going to go to Pukkelpop by car, but my dad couldn’t make it so on Tuesday evening, the day before leaving for the festival, I had to find some friends to do the trip to Kiewit. I asked around on Facebook and through Peter, I got in tought with his brother Stijn who hooked me up with the ‘Malinas Army @Pukkelpop” group.

All of them are 16-21 year old music- and festival lovers and were really excited about having a four day during blast. Nothing during D-0 could have predicted what was going to happen the first day around 18.15hr.
Stijn, Jonas, Céline and me had just gotten back from the camping and were watching Netsky at the famous so-called ‘Boiler-room’ when it started raining. At that moment, and thanks to our Argentina flag, we met up with Lieven and Maarten, two friends of mine. And also with Leen and Eva, the two sisters with whom Jonas and I went to Rock Werchter with as helpers for the AFS-stand there. When it started raining really hard we decided to take cover beneath the white cover tent which was located between the Boiler room and the ‘Dance Hall’.

The moment we got beneath that cover it started raining even harder and the wind started to cry like I’ve never experienced it before. Lightning struck in the north, east, south and west off us and the sky turned green and black… It was crazy. At a moment the cover started to fill with water. The shelter, that was at about 10metres high before the storm, started to lower because of the weight of all the water that was coming together at one point. At that point Leen shouted to all of us: “it’s going to collapse! RUN!” And at that point we all started running in different ways to literally save our own lives! At the moment we got out of that shelter, it started to hail really hard and everyone that came out of the shelter ran for the Boiler Room, Dance hall or backstage as the emergency exits were opened. Jonas told me afterwards that he had taken cover in a truck, together with about 20 other people. I ran for the Dance Hall, and hid for the hail and the rain. But once I got inside, a lot of people tried to get outside because of the discoballs that where about to fall. We were really lucky that they didn’t all fall.

In this article you can see the damage of the shelter where we took cover at first. If my information is correct, this is also where the couple died. (4people died at the festival because of the storm)

http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/1313/Festivals/article/detail/1306902/2011/08/19/Cijfers-van-extreem-onweer-Pukkelpop-in-20-minuten-evenveel-regen-als-in-maand.dhtml

After the storm, I went back outside, to the place I last saw my friends and started to wave with the flag. I refound my friends and, after hanging around at the festival site for about 45mins, we went back to the camping site. We were really lucky to find all of our compagnons alive and well, but our tent was totally wet. Then Leen and Eva offered us to stay at their place, as they live really close to Pukkelpop and so we went to spend the night there and dried our clothes. We continued to follow the news until 1.30 am and then went to bed.

The next morning, Jonas and I hitchhiked back to the festival site to find our friends, the few that remained, there hanging around as they’d just heard the news about the cancellation of the festival.

So we went back to Mechelen, by train and Stijn and I walked to the city centre, to a bar Called Panique d’O where we encountered Stijn’s brother and some more friends, who were delighted to see us alive and well!

- This article, written by the chief editor of De Morgen, is about who’s to blaim about what happened at the festival. I must say that it’s one of the few articles that really says who’s fault it is: NO ONE’S!

http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/2462/Standpunt/article/detail/1307240/2011/08/20/Schuld.dhtml#.Tk-RSSevChz.facebook -

- Some bands’ reactions were amazing. They offered help through Twitter etc. and e.g. Foo Fighters talked about the incident at their next gig in Austria (Frequency festival) and dedicated a song to Pukkelpop

http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/1313/Festivals/article/detail/1307646/2011/08/21/Aangedane-Foo-Fighters-herdenken-Pukkelpop.dhtml

- Some major festivals, like Lowlands (the Pukkelpop of the Netherlands), also remembered the disaster that took place last weekend:

http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/1313/Festivals/article/detail/1307668/2011/08/21/Bezoekers-Lowlands-steunen-slachtoffers-Pukkelpop.dhtml

That evening when I got home, I couldn’t stay inside. I had to go out and talk to people, be with people in order to be able to cope with all the things that had happened in the last 24 hours. So I got out and when i was about to ride away on my bike, my mom shouted at me ‘be carefull!’. Then I answered her: ‘come’n mom, I survived Pukkelpop. I’m not going to die this weekend…’ (I don’t want to be rude against the victims etc, but it was a funny comment right? J)

So saterday we met up with all our festivalfriends to go to Maanrock in Mechelen, the group of Dour festival, the group of Pukkelpop and the group of Lieven and his friends, which led to us being 25 or so, all united beneath the Argentina flag, which gave quite a good impression on national television here in Belgium: http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/mediatheek/nieuws/cultuurenmedia/1.1092950

As Stijn and me were wearing shirts saying ‘survived Pukkelpop 2011’ we got lot of attention and even got interviewed by several newspapers: The pictures are beneath this article. And the intervieuws:

-      http://www.mediawatcher.be/1/nl/4/49571/verdrietpukkelpopzindertdoortotinmechelen.html

-      http://www.nieuwsblad.be/article/detail.aspx?articleid=N53E9TCL

All the bands we saw were pretty good, except for one or two maybe and we had loads of fun at Maanrock festival, which was good as we were able to forget what had happened just 2days before and in this way we could rearrange our minds.

This year’s Maanrock, the first time in 7 years –if not in ever- that I went two days, was the best edition I ever had. Not because I went two days, but because the friends I was with were so awesome and because there were so much of us and because we had the argentina flag –which always leads to funny situations (and meeting Argentineans (met some at Dour, Pukkelpop & Maanrock!)-….
It was a pitty that some of my best friends couldn’t be there because of examinations, but I’m sure that they will study harder next year so that they can join me to –hopefully- a new edition of Pukkelpop and to a new edition of Maanrock festival!

Damn, appereantly it was a pretty long text I just wrote. Hope you readers enjoyed it. Only ONE MORE WEEK before my next big adventure:

ERASMUS SEMESTER IN RENNES – FRANCE!

Hasta la proxima amigos!

Het Nieuwsblad Op Zondag - 21/08/2011

De Gazet Van Antwerpen - 22/08/2011

De Gazet Van Antwerpen - 22/08/2011

A Brand - Maanrock 2011

A Brand - Maanrock 2011

CPeX - Maanrcok 2011

Ten slotte nog een artikel van een Lokerse festivalbezoeker waarin Chokri een hart onder de riem wordt gestoken...: http://www.nieuwsblad.be/article/detail.aspx?articleid=BLLCO_20110822_001