Before the Speech Contest

On the day of the speech contest, we were supposed to visit another famous tourist spot - Okayama Korakuen.

However, this beautiful study lounge for the students of the university is where we ended up~ But no one is complaining because "We finally got WIFI!!!". Hahaha.......never knew that one could be so happy just to get wifi connections. 

Well, not that I think about it, we should've gone to the korakuen instead because the place is absolutely stunning! And, I'm not sure when is the next time I will get to visit this beautiful city again. I really hope that I will get opportunity to come again!

Lol, actually how we ended up here was because one of our members got sick so we made a stop at the clinic in the uni and also, it was raining....

But we're absolutely loving it.....see, we're all too busy with our phones to even bother with anything else.

hehehe....for days we've been trying to get our hands on wifi to contact our families etc.....but failed desperately! lol.... every single we enter a room in the university, someone will be trying their luck!

Wifi aside, you get some pretty good views from inside the study lounge. I wished that my uni had such a spacious and quiet area for us to study.

After the wifi party, they brought us to one of the main research facility in the university for an eye-opening experience. 

Some of the views along the way....

Really love how the 2 universities that we visited were located on top of the hill~ The view is just amazing!

Have you seen fresh-water and sea-water fishes swimming together in the same water? Well this is where it all happens in their special water! Who knew that later in the night we would be having fugu (that do not have any poison) sashimi that were reared from this very facility.

Really happy that I got to see 2 research facility in the uni. One was the chemistry lab from the day before and the other was this. I only wished that I could visit their biology labs too!

Then finally, it was lunch time in one of the classrooms. Love the bento!!!

Everything was yummy even though they were cold. hehehe.....talking about cold food, I'm reminded of Na-chan! She was complaining that ever since we arrived, all we've been eating were cold food stuffs! In a way it's quite true......except for the foods that I ate on arrival day and the bowl of hot rice at breakfast the next morning, everything else was served cold. Even so, they taste great!

Happy faces everywhere!

After that, we were brought to another classroom where we changed into our national costumes and did our make-up!