The Calm and Peaceful Town of Foix

Initially this French trip was more to a study trip rather than a holiday but let's just say that my batch was pretty lucky! Taylors and the University of Toulouse have been partners for many years and when we were in France, we're supposed to be at their University attending lectures and having exams. But guess what? Our whole trip here in Toulouse was on their semester break! Means, the university was closed and no EXAMS for us. 

Thus, when we were brought to Foix, instead of having a free and easy time, we were forced to attend a small lecture there.  The university in Foix is really small but really clean, peaceful and modern looking. We were brought into a hall and to our surprise we saw loads of test-look-a-like papers and went like "SHIT EXAM?! OMG WE DID NOT STUDY ANYTHING!!! :O :O :O". But it was just some silly quiz which was super easy. The tourism students of were presenting some of their assignments and we were suppose to find the answers from their slides. What a bore. It also took us quite some challenge to understand them due to their heavy accent. 

Right after that long hours of 'lecture' we had coffee break time! Who doesnt love coffee breaks? :P.

We were served with croissants (I've been having it for breakfast for almost every morning! Savour as much before I get back to Malaysia where there is no croissant as good as France's) and Milo. Somehow or somewhat, their Milo tastes like 100000x better than the ones here in Malaysia. It's really malty, chocolaty and very rich. Couldn't get enough of it either xD. 

Then, we were left hanging to do whatever we want for 2 hours to wait for lunch time. Seriously we were just wasting our time doing nothing at the dead university. So we just went and camwhore, admire nature, gossip and spontaneously came up with a couple photoshoot thing lol. 

Hmm, only me alone without Him :(. Been really missing him a lot. 

I realize that this whole trip, we never stop eating lol. Just right after a heavy coffee break (more like welcome breakfast) and in 2 hours time, it was lunch. The French were being nice thinking that we Asians would be missing home food a lot and so they tried to whip up some a simple curry chicken for us. But you know what, it's still best that they remain cooking what they're best at haha. The curry was no where close tasting like curry. 

Right after lunch, we had a cultural show performance for like only 15 French students by a total of 312 Taylor's students lol.  For my group, we chose to create a video instead of having a life performance so that our luggage will have more space for personal shopping :P. We left Foix at approximately 5pm back to Toulouse. Basically a waste of our day when we could do much more. Sigh!!