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<\/p>\nPeople from many different countries live, study and work in Eindhoven. Every week, Innovation Origins has a talk\u00a0with an international about what brought them here and what life is like in Eindhoven.<\/p>\n
Name: Kingsley Buseni
\nCountry of origin: Nigeria
\nWork: operations specialist at 50five<\/p>\n
For this interview, we head to Eindhoven Airport. Right across the airport is a business park, including the office of 50five, the company Kingsley works for. He welcomes us and leads the way to a space where we can talk. \u201cI\u2019m moving back to Eindhoven soon. I\u2019m currently living in Belgium, just across the border, because I couldn\u2019t find an affordable living space here in Eindhoven. Luckily I now found something close to the city center. It\u2019s nice Eindhoven is booming and all, but that means also there is more need for housing.\u201d Kingsley’s road to the Netherlands had Cyprus on its way. That is something we don\u2019t hear a lot. \u201cI wanted to study in England, but a friend of mine studied in Cyprus. He was very enthusiastic about it and I decided to join him. I really liked it too, although my friend left for a job somewhere else, a month after I arrived.\u201d Kingsley laughs out loud at the thought of this memory.<\/p>\n
While studying in Cyprus, Kingsley meets a Dutch girl. \u201cWe fell in love and after a while, we got married. When our son was born, my wife wanted to go back to the Netherlands. That is how I ended up in Deventer. Well, that was quite a shocker for me. There was not a lot to do and I worked whatever job I could get. I went back to university and got a degree in International Business and Communication. I have a European residence since I lived in Cyprus, and I\u2019m very glad I have freedom of movement in the EU and can work and study here. I hear very complicated stories from friends from other countries.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cEindhoven is almost like a small version of Amsterdam with all these nationalities that live here. I have colleagues from India, England, France, America, you name it. In Eindhoven is a small group of Nigerians, in Amsterdam, the community is much bigger. So when I need the African feel from back home, I can also find it here in the Netherlands, in some way. In Eindhoven you can do a lot of things. My French colleague goes to improve classes and invited me to come along. It was very nice to meet new people. I also went to the Philips Museum. It is very interesting to see how this big brand started in Eindhoven. I also like to go to the Catharina church and people really should see the church during the Glow Festival. It looks amazing. In my spare time I also like work as a model and as an extra in movies. I was an extra in the Dutch movie about the airplane crash in the Amsterdam Bijlmer neighbourhood of 1992. Being part of this movie was very intense.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFriends tell me I\u2019m starting to act as a Dutch person, I don\u2019t see it, but they do. Like for example, we are used to shopping groceries for a month, the Dutch don\u2019t. Dutch people do their shopping every weekend and a lot of them even day by day. I do that too now. I\u2019m getting better at learning how the Dutch system works. Before, my wife used to handle all Dutch correspondence, but since I\u2019m divorced I have to do it myself. My friends or co-workers help me translate when something a letter is not clear to me. I learned Dutch, but only the basics. I don\u2019t know what the future brings, I\u2019m struggling with the question rather I want to stay in the Netherlands. I have a good job here and of course, my son lives here, both very good reasons to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n
Photography: Diewke van den Heuvel People from many different countries live, study and work in Eindhoven. Every week, Innovation Origins has a talk\u00a0with an international about what brought them here and what life is like in Eindhoven. Name: Kingsley Buseni Country of origin: Nigeria Work: operations specialist at 50five For this interview, we head to Eindhoven Airport. Right across the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1617,"featured_media":504976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[10490],"location":[],"article_type":[],"serie":[],"archives":[],"internal_archives":[],"reboot-archive":[],"class_list":["post-149185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability-nl","tag-city"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":{"subtitle":"","text_display_homepage":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"Sabine te Braake","author_link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/author\/sabine-te-braake\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/kingsley2.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Sustainability<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Sustainability<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["city<\/a>"],"unlinked":["city<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 8 years ago","modified":"Updated 8 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on July 28, 2018","modified":"Updated on July 28, 2018"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on July 28, 2018 9:00 am","modified":"Updated on July 28, 2018 9:00 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149185"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=149185"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=149185"},{"taxonomy":"serie","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/serie?post=149185"},{"taxonomy":"archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archives?post=149185"},{"taxonomy":"internal_archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal_archives?post=149185"},{"taxonomy":"reboot-archive","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reboot-archive?post=149185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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