Toulouse, Airbus, France

I just realize that I have never wrote anything about my time living in Toulouse, France. Well,given that I rarely write anything in blog since 2018, so I think now im going to tell you my experience living there as part of creating the writing habit I have tried to build during quarantine period.

I continued my education here in France and it's beyond my wildest dream to finally able to study in Toulouse. I always have this dream to visit France and interact with French people in French. I have never thought that dream will ever come true, even when I took a french course for more than 2 years. Therefore, when it's finally came true, I still needed to pinch myself.

Speaking about Toulouse, this city is the 4th biggest city and also the best city in France for student. It's full of young people which give more spice of this city dynamic.


In addition, AIRBUS has one of their headquarters here in this city. Therefore, there are many aerospace companies are also located in Toulouse. As a girl who was growing up in third world country and studied business, aerospace industry was a very foreign domain for me. It had been very difficult to imagine the way this industry works. I was very fortunate to have the chance to get the inside scoop about this industry and this particular company when I joined a competition from AIRBUS. I even got the chance to visit one of their factory, YES THEIR VERY OWN AIRPLANE FACTORY.  Yes, me, this business student who had never visited ANY KIND of factory, but got the opportunity to see a very big and complicated airplane factory. Im forever grateful with this experience.

I think my experience joining this competition needs to be written in separate post LOL

So if I may continue talking about my time in Toulouse, I believe I have learned more about developing myself as a person. I really learned about how to deal with ambiguity and manage my budget wisely. I learned the hard way about when I was in shitty situation, I have to think with my brain not with emotion. I really applied my mom motto which is "swipe your tears and think". Those words became my mantra to navigate during one of the hardest time in Toulouse. In addition, I've become more mature so that I can let go stuff that used to bother me as I know those are outside my control.

I think im not really succeful to explain any points about my time there HAHAHAHA

Maybe when I have more patience and willingness to revisit this and edit it then Im gonna share you more points

Maybe.

Raisa