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.
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| 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.
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