Hiking

I know that I haven’t written anything interesting in the last little while but to be honest, my life has been boring. School has been busy, and still is, but this weekend I went on a hike to the Dingli Cliffs which is one of the highest points in Malta about 250 metres above sea level (thank you Wikipedia). We were gone all day and managed to cap off the day by watching a beautiful sunset. Anyway I’m pretty happy that the weather has finally become much warmer and the rain has (seemingly) stopped. We had temperatures around 18 degrees this weekend and while I wouldn’t normally consider that a scorcher, I managed to get a tan (read minor sunburn). I’ll be honest, the nicer weather has made it infinitely more challenging for me to convince myself to do my homework- I find myself weighing the benefits of vitamin D and passing my course.... I usually draw the line somewhere in between.  It seems crazy that March is almost over- didn’t it just start? Realistically I think that the next 3 months are going to fly by as well. I have 4 courses left until I’m done here at the end of June and until then I’ll be really busy with school but looking forward to my mini holiday in the UK over Easter break, 3 weeks to go. Hope everyone is doing well, love to all at home. Drop me a line to fill me in on your lives *cough* Corina Buligan *cough*

We Jammin'

I’m not going to lie I really don’t have much to talk about this week. Obviously some weeks are more exciting than others and this is just one of those weeks where nothing really happened aside from day to day life. One thing that did annoy me was that my online playlist got deleted- this seems to be happening more and more lately which is on the one hand annoying but on the other it forces me to find some new songs to listen to. So with that said, I forced myself to check out what songs are playing on bbc radio1, billboard 100 and radio stations at home. I even went as far as doing the 30 day song challenge that’s been floating around on facebook and exchanged my list with Kat (who has much better musical taste than I do) to use whatever we came up with to compile my new list to rock out to.  So since I’m not cool enough to figure out itunes and neither Malta nor Canada is up with the times to get Spotify, I’m asking you guys to hit me up with your fav song, or a wayback playback (Karen and Lorraine that is a hint) or even a song that reminds you of me (I already put Beyonce’s Single Ladies on the list so don’t go trying to be funny and hint that one)! Let me know by one of the 19 ways you can find me online either by commenting on the blog, skype, email, msn, facebook. Okay so maybe not 19 ways but there’s five. Thanks for your help. Big love to everyone at home, I miss you all dearly. 

I Can Gozo the Distance

When I was in elementary school, I used to look forward to Carnival days in the winter months because it meant that we got to play in the snow all day. Canadian Carnival is a tradition which takes place in Quebec every year just before Lent but I guess our school used the tradition as an excuse to expose the students to French culture. Realistically, kids are not going to complain to not having class and getting to play games and drink hot chocolate. Anyway, Carnival has been taking place in Malta for the last couple days and I decided to venture over to Gozo on Saturday to check it out. To put it simply, the day was an adventure and an epic fail but somehow enjoyable. Once we arrived in Gozo, we decided that it would be a good idea to walk to Nadur since it "wasn’t too far” and this way we’d beat paying for a taxi. After wandering around for a bit we then decided it was time to cave and get a taxi to the farmhouse where everyone from the residence was staying. Despite pointing on a map to the city that we needed to go to, our driver dropped us off in the wrong place so we were stranded for a bit until we were saved by Mike and Jess- typical Canadians going out of their to help others. Anyway good times were had at the farmhouse with people dressing up and getting their faces painted. I actually never saw any of the carnival festivities but I think it’s sort of a combination of Halloween (minus the candy) and Caribana; basically a lot of crowds and rowdy people and apparently dead fish on the street?  Despite all the confusion, it was a beautiful day- finally- with a clear blue sky and sun poking through the clouds. It was a welcomed change since the weather has been terrible for the last couple weeks. I’m really looking forward to the warmer weather, although everyone seems to want to warn me about it, but I hate being cold.

In the wrong city- oops

In other news, I’m very excited that I will have some visitors over the Easter break for a few days which will be really great because I’ve been a bit homesick the last little while and it will be nice to see some familiar faces and hang out and relax a bit. After that I’ll be hopping over to England again to visit my cousin Geoff in Oxford and spend Easter together and then meet up with a bunch of friends in London at the end of my trip. There’s a lot of work that needs to be done from now until then but I know that time will fly by as it always does. Only three and half months left until I’m back in Canada- so crazy.

On a random note, I just wanted to share this hilarious video with you, thanks to Lama for showing it to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMFpZRDYha4