I cannot believe that my course is halfway done. I only have seven more modules to complete before I head home to write my thesis- which I still don’t know what it will be on yet, suggestions would be appreciated. This week has not been overly eventful except for the fact that Thursday was a holiday to mark St. Paul’s Shipwreck in Malta. I thought it would be cool to check out what goes on during a ‘festa’ so a bunch of us headed to Valletta to see what was going on. I think it would have been better to go at night because all we saw was a band marching through the city. Yay for cultural experiences. I’m sure there is more to it than that but I couldn’t find an itinerary of events or anything so that was slightly disappointing. There will be plenty more events to come, I’m sure so hopefully those ones are better. 

There have been a lot of changes going on at the residence, specifically with the new residents having arrived for the second semester.  The overall mood at the residence is pretty mixed right now with a lot of people sad to see friends heading back home and a lot of people who are happy to start their time abroad. Obviously it sucks to see people leave but, speaking from experience, having met people on exchanges in the past it makes for the best excuse to travel and you never have to worry about paying for accommodation! So good luck to everyone who has gone back home and welcome to all the newbies.