Undergraduate / THE BUSINESS BOOT CAMP -COMMONAPP EXPERIENCE THAT HAS SHAPED MY LIFE [8]

an experience that has shaped my life

THE INSPIRE AFRICA BUSINESS BOOT CAMP

I was experiencing my typical training session in the Inspire Africa project. Surrounded with cameras, yet another famed entrepreneur wholly captivated the east African cream in a business-minded tęte-ŕ-tęte; and occasionally lost me. I raised my hand up... again.

This was expected. I was among professionals, from a Rwandese CEO to a Kenyan consultant. Lessons of marketing or cost control were new to me and an occupation to them. A high school graduate at nineteen; I was "the spectacle". My success in the auditions dimmed. My confidence in waving the Tanzania underdogs' flag and my tourism business was crumpling. I was a weakening representative, watched by millions in a show similar to the Apprentice, with flair of local culture. Still, I wasn't deterred.

In delegation of roles, I chose risky, productive responsibilities. In the fruit selling task, it was negotiating. I plunged into the unfamiliar Owino open-air market. I squeezed between the sea of people to the fruit section. I chose a stand that displayed lush fruits coming into season. As the vendor briskly served her customers, I loudly complimented her dress. She gazed at me. I excitedly greeted "jebaleko nyabho". Evoking words from a guide, I bargained. With my amusing efforts I left with produce worth 82,000 less 48,000 Ugandan shillings. I'd mastered marketplace shopping, something so quintessentially Luganda. Since I recommended the cultural flavored brand, I lightly salted pineapples, as others packaged the fruits. Our group dynamics mirrored our sales. Gaston sang as I danced. We won by a 200% sale margin. I had engineered our success.

I tackled all projects, living the "Why" conundrum. Consequently, I made safe decisions. On the KCB bank task to create a loan-able proposal, I advised parking lots and big buses in Dar-es-salaam. We won owing to a stable security and solution to the transport problem. I also triumphed with unpopular decisions. Rwandair charged me to lead a route management consultancy. I chose Accra as the Sky interior's destination in the face of better cities. I relied on Ghana's security and our flight schedules in which departures molded into arriving times of air-traffic at Kigali and Kotoko airports.

Inspire Africa experience steeped me culturally. My teammates transformed me to an east African breed. Clairyce named me Ndagijimana in Rwandese and Ochanda taught me Luo. My experiences deepened with travel. In Kigali, a memorial centre transported me to genocide, opening the graves beneath me in films and displays of skulls. Still, my lesson was the daring spirit of a healing society through Omuganda- communal work. I led the Inspire Africa to join the Kimihurura residents in digging a trench. A spade struck down .The trench got deeper with my resolve to serve through service.

The exploration of careers has left me a better entrepreneur, and the unanswered questions, an interest in a business academic experience. I struggle my tongue around matoke with willingness to learn diversity. As the show airs I am a celebrated finalist representing hope of east African integration and gradual development of youth.

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Undergraduate / Colgate -VENE VIDI VICCI- DESTINATION TURKEY [10]

At Colgate we value global awareness and the diverse perspectives of our students. Through travel, students are able to experience different cultures and take advantage of new opportunities that can make our community richer when they return to campus. If you had the opportunity to travel anywhere in the world during your time at Colgate, where would you go, and why? (250 words maximum)

'Vene, vidi, vici'- 'I came, I saw, I conqured"- Julius Caesar
Civilization-Turkey, Divinity-Turkey, World War-Turkey...and the list continues. As a curious individual, the recurrence of turkey in my education and reads eventually sparked interest.
I came
For years, I literary travelled to Turk. Each swaying destination spurred another travel. Gobekli Tepe; a presumed Garden of Eden, Agri dagi;where Noah's ark landed to Istanbul, a capital where power transformations of legendary Roman empire are painted like a canvas on its architecture and history.

I saw
The reward of discovering Turkey is that its diversity is widespread that I and the world live it. I celebrate Christmas welcoming my celebrated hero, Santa Claus; a Myra birthed and lived citizen to my home. Our thriving beverage in Tanzania and the world was Turkey's original; coffee. As a Christian, I derive my identity from Antioch in Turkey, where we were first called Christian. Even writing was first done in Anatolia-Turkey on clay tablets. I write as Anatolians first did.

I will conquer
The varied and vivid Turkey is ambiguous to me. I'm caught in between extinct worlds and civilizations; such as Byzantine then Ottoman and present modernity. I yearn to experience the rich diversity of history and culture of people who passed, built civilizations or settled in it. Knowing Turkey mirrors the fact that it is a meeting point of Europe, Asia and Africa, with each Turkish origin I live, my passion to travel to Turkey grows. I am confident it is here I will merge the mélange that escapes me standing in Turkey's true form.

Undergraduate / 'Knowledge kept me under the stars' - BEREA ESSAY [4]

give us
1.An overview of your educational and life experiences;
2. What you plan to do upon completing your education;
3. Why you wish to return (or not return) to your home
country;
4. Description of ways you have positively impacted your

so this is for the first part, I would add up some three paraghraphs on primary and seconary education..so for a beggining is this okay..or shoulld i delve to academic start at primary school,though in a way i think it meaningful,bacause it gives them a depth into my character...HERE GOES

I was curious child. As my mum cooked, I would ask how charcoal burned, As my dad gardened, I would ask why the sand was brown. I would interrupt a prayer, to ask how God couldn't have a beginning. My parents were amused at first, but as my habit persisted, they found a way of deflecting my inquisitions. They bought me books...and forth my story began.

I embarked on adventures in Fables of Aesop, The bible, local folklore and fairy-tales. Knowledge kept me under the stars, trying to identify the Magi's, Mars, Jupiter or constellations. At seven, I mostly enjoyed but understood a little of what I read. I only grasped some facts like diversity of the world in communities like Greeks and Israelites, morals and some vocabulary in other languages. Still, it was this phase that left me with the most basic foundation of my life.I learned to seek out knowledge.