{"id":1401,"date":"2021-10-03T11:27:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T09:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.servethecityleuven.be\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2025-08-19T08:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T06:43:23","slug":"1401","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.servethecityleuven.be\/nl\/2021\/10\/03\/1401\/","title":{"rendered":"Internship Experience 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Xiaozheng Song from China. I was an intern in Serve the City Leuven in the summer of 2021. This was not my first time volunteering, as I volunteered a lot in my home country, China. I like the feeling of being needed and helping people. It also offers me opportunities to be involved in the big exciting events happening around me by contributing my own efforts\uff01<\/p>\n<p>Last year, I came to Belgium to pursue my master degree. Thanks to Serve the City Leuven, I got myself an internship job during this summer vacation after one year&#8217;s study at KU Leuven. My major is business management (marketing). I applied what I learned from school to my daily work and learned new things by working as an intern with the help of our team leader Gabbie. I was in charge of marketing aspects of the organization, mostly creating social media contents. The working environment is quite free and chill and team members are very nice and open. I really enjoyed working here.<\/p>\n<p>As for my volunteer background and the non-profit attribute of our organization, I was very happy to contribute my efforts to the city where I lived. It made me feel more connected to our community. I tried a lot of new things this summer: transporting goods by riding a local bike trailer in the city, demolishing a house, putting posters and so on. I have never thought these could be a part of my study experience abroad.<br \/>\nMost importantly, I can see that deep friendships are formed among us through participating in voluntary activities and working together.<br \/>\nMoreover, I was very happy to be a bridge between Chinese community and our city.<\/p>\n<p>For the recent event Flanders 2021: 2021 UCI Road World Championships, almost half of the volunteers were chinese living in Leuven due to our marketing campaign and recruitment work. I am very happy to see this happening\uff01Serve the city\uff0clet&#8217;s make our city a better place together by volunteering and welcome to join our team\uff01<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 Song, Intern 2021, Serve the City\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1402\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.servethecity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2021\/10\/song1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.servethecity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2021\/10\/song1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cdn.servethecity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2021\/10\/song1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.servethecity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2021\/10\/song1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1411\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.servethecity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2021\/10\/song4-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.servethecity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2021\/10\/song4-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cdn.servethecity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2021\/10\/song4-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/cdn.servethecity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2021\/10\/song4-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.servethecity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2021\/10\/song4.jpg 961w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1409\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.servethecity.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2021\/10\/song3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"2560 by 1440 pixels\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Xiaozheng Song from China. I was an intern in Serve the City Leuven in the summer of 2021. This was not my first time volunteering, as I volunteered a lot in my home country, China. I like the feeling of being needed and helping people. It also offers me opportunities to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":1362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecityleuven.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecityleuven.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecityleuven.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecityleuven.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecityleuven.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecityleuven.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1920,"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecityleuven.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/1920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecityleuven.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecityleuven.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecityleuven.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servethecityleuven.be\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}