Exploring

I finished my second module this week and since I finished all my work on Friday, I actually had a weekend to myself. I would have liked to have flown somewhere to visit a new country but since I never know how much work I will have to do, it’s a bit risky booking a flight in advance and not knowing if I can go. Besides, right now flights are really expensive and I think that it is important to see this beautiful island that many people don’t even know exists! So with that, I decided to go to Mdina, the old capital of Malta, also known as the Silent City. It was really nice to walk around and take in the sites and also go to an amazing cafe to take a break and eat some chocolate cake--- diet starts Monday so it’s okay. Later on in the evening us girls got dressed up for Halloween. To be honest, I really don’t like the holiday, save for carving pumpkins, but I ended up deciding to be Bellatrix Lestrange from Harry Potter. (19 days and counting until the 7^th movie comes out!)

Today a bunch of us took the ferry to Gozo, and we hired a few taxis as personal guides to take us around the island. Normally I wouldn’t do that but because today is Sunday and everything is closed or operates on a reduced schedule, it would have been really difficult to get around and we probably wouldn’t have been able to see half of what we did. It was a great day and we were all exhausted by the time we got back to Malta to take the van back to the residence. Everything was fine and dandy until the van stalled and we were stuck. Thankfully it didn’t take too long for someone to come and help us. I thought that when the next van came to pick us up, we would all just switch from the broken down van to the other one; instead, we were “towed,” and by that I mean the vans were attached by a rope and we were dragged from Mosta back to the residence. Is that even legal?

 

And I know I usually have a good story about the buses, but the only one that I have this week is that the bus drivers here can sometimes be really hostile. Take for example when I tried to get on the bus just as it was leaving- probably not the best of ideas but for the record I was yelling and saying “wait!” - I literally had to jump on the bus to get where I needed to go and then when I was trying to get off, the donkey that was the bus driver, didn’t stop so I found myself jumping off the bus. At least I know that if my career in conflict resolution fails, I probably have a good chance at becoming a stunt double in Hollywood so I mean, I guess it’s a win- win sitch.

So that’s it for me for now, I’m looking forward to the next module which deals with Media and Conflict... who knows, maybe I’ll get in touch with my inner Robin Scherbatsky and start my career as a news reporter. We shall see.