Category: KU Leuven

Johannes Rabie’s memoir of KU Leuven’s Summer Camp on Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Pre-Departure:

The summer camp is held in the European summer, which is a busy tourism time for the region. Accommodation is therefore probably the first thing that needs to be booked, in order to secure those bargains! To me, accommodation is a no-brainer – Hostels. One, they are the cheapest form of accommodation. Two – they offer everything you need as a traveller, and more! A bed, bedding and towels, breakfast, free Wi-Fi, lockers and laundry services (mostly at extra cost) are amongst the basic services that all hostels offer. But probably the most valuable is the experience. You get to socialise with people from around the world who, like you, are keen on travelling and experiencing different people from interesting places which they have only ever heard of.

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Tussen die boeke en die biere    

Before you jet off:

This will be a trip of a lifetime, so a bit of paperwork, is nothing to complain about.  Firstly,  it’s the dreaded Visa application.  Arriving early at the consulate goes without saying, but to strengthen this recommendation consider the following:  The Cape Town’s Belgium consulate has only two administrative personnel handling the visa applications and there is no appointment system in place.  Thus if you arrive to find Soccer mom and her gremlins in the waiting area you will have to wait while each of their applications and scans are done.

If you forgot something or you are still waiting for a confirmation letter from a third party, just ask them if you can e-mail that later. They will normally let you do this while just filing your application under incomplete.  Then you don’t have to go hurtling into that slow-moving Cape Town traffic twice.

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