Zouk is a prata shop

Went for orientation at shatec today, made a couple of friends and they seem pretty nice. So we were sitting in the room with the students committee "ambassador" talking and they were asking us about our interests..if we like clubbing and if anyone goes to zouk. And this guy at the back just raised his hands (dont know for what purpose la) so the ambassador asked him "oh u go to zouk?" The guy was like "huh what zouk?" Then these few guys infront of me laughed and said "zouk is a prata shop, prata shop!" Haha okay i just thought that was funny.
Other than that, the tour around the sch was confusing. When we were walking along the corridors, for a moment i thought we were in a hospital. The walls at the side have this wooden plank-like handles that line the middle of the entire wall. There are plans for shatec to move to a bigger campus near town but it is not finalized yet. I certainly hope that my batch will be affected.