A Country Girl Moves to Toulouse by Vincent ROJON

I’m going to speak about a woman who’s sixty years old and who comes from a little village in the center of France.

This person was very shy during her childhood and she was used to living in the country. But one day, she had to go to study in Toulouse. Can you understand how lost she was at the beginning? The place where she was living was populated by less than a hundred inhabitants and in a week, she was dropped in one of the biggest cities of the country, inhabited byhundreds of thousands of inhabitants. Her first impression was that she wouldn’t be able to find her way in such a city. But she was wrong and in a few days, she knew Toulouse approximately. Indeed, she learned where all the places which were important for a student were: the campus, where she could find a library and the restaurant, and the city center, where she could find lots of shops. Her first week was a bit difficult, because she went back to school before most of the students. She was studying Spanish, and all her friends who were studying English, had a week’s more holidays. But, from the day her friends arrived in Toulouse, she loved this city and her studies. This farmer’s daughter enjoyed living in a big city and even if she had a small bedroom in one of the campus buildings, she told me she has very pleasant memories of her studies. She spent three years in Toulouse and she met a Spanish girl who invited her to go to Spain, at the end of her studies to visit. When she came back to France, she did like many people and she went to live in Paris to find a job but that’s another story!