i just came to say goodbye

In the end, i arrived tired, but happy and healthy to Santiago de Compostela Airport.

A friend of mine came to drive me to my sweet home... :) and i arrived ok after 2 hours in the car.

So, this is the end of my trip to Malta...

This month have been one of the most enriching in all my life and i am going to keep the people and experiences i have lived in my mind forever.

In the whole, I really enjoyed the experience and if you let my to give you an advise, in my mind i believe that travelling and knowing new people, new languages, ... are a very good way to make our life worthy.

;)

I want to thank to all of you that have commented this blog anytime, sent me sms or emails, called me by phone,... in sum those who supported my during the trip...

And i want to say thank you to all the kind people i knew in Malta (students and teachers)... you know who you are¡ May be i'll see you somewhere, sometime,... the world is too small...

BYE BYE.

Galicia 2011/03/06----

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Cost living in Malta - February 2011 updated

At first i want to complain about the transfer to airport service of EF school. if you are going to use the transfer service of EF in Malta, please, think about it twice... 30€ is really expensive... it is better to pay for a taxi between several mates (a lot of people leave the island every saturday) otherwise, i f you use the EF service, you will be transfer in a crowded and small minivan and it is not a direct transfer, you will do a complete Malta sightseeing before you arrive to the airport, because the minivan pick up everyone in their acommodations... DON't use it¡

i am in madrid now, fortunately i have a cousin here and kindly he offers me his house to stay tonight.

Tomorrow i'll finish my trip, i'll leave Madrid at 9:55 and i'll be back in Santiago de Compostela in the middle of the morning... so now i am still in transit... ;)

In other matters, today i prepared a little spread sheet where you can see some prices in Malta than i colleted during this month.
In brief, i think the prices are more or less the same than in Spain, but you can check yourself...



Tomorrow i am going to get up early in order to take my come back flight... so, i'll see you¡

Leaving Malta

Finally i am leaving. It was a month while i was living abroad my country - Galicia/Spain -

My fligth will take off in a little hours time. I am preparing my luggage.

I came here almost without luggage, however i am coming back to Spain with a new bag for my new stuff (clothes, books,...) and with my mind full of memories, people and experiences...

All of these collected during only a month, while i was living in this little country called Malta.

I really will be missing some things because this month's experiences have made my mind change. This is not a goodbye, it is only a break, probably i will be back sometime in the future ...

Today is going to be a hard, long travelling day. I don´t have a direct fligth, i need to fly in several aircrafts... so at the end of the day i'll be exhausted, but i'll be in Madrid - Spain.

But i am happy, i am going to see my friends again. I miss you guys...

See you soon¡

Mission acomplished

Hi, i have finished my lessons today, and as today was my last day, i have finished my whole english's course in Malta.

Mission acomplished¡

My teacher gave me my level test results and i am really astonished. I got a C1 level mark¡

I know it is only a piece of paper... but C1 is a really good level, i am happy however i think they are cheating on me. I have seen another students in lower levels, and i know how they speak english... so may be i am a C1 level student, but i feel that i am more B2 than C1.

By the way, i dont know if i spoke before about the levels. There are 6 levels A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2 from starter (A1) to advanced (C2) ... This is an european framework, common used all around europe.

Anyway, i am shining like the sun... my mark is C1 and i need to make some amendments in my CV to include this¡

Now is time to enjoy my success and have a good time, may be some last minute tourism and of course i will have some farewell's beers tonight, too.

See you¡

Curiosities about basic services in Malta

What is a basic service in Spain?

May be the water and the electrical power in every house?

The central heater system, perhaps?

Do you think in the internet connection as a basic service?

In my humble opinion all of them are basic services in the 2011 world.

So i am going to talk today about this services in Malta. I'll try to compare their quality against the usual quality in Galicia / Spain.

At first, The internet service. Please look at this advertisement i found in pub's toilets everywhere. Is your pipe big enough?

The local brand is called Melita (the roman name for Malta) and they have a broad offer in speeds of internet...

http://www.melita.com/personal/internet/packages/

If we compare them with Spainish prices, i think we don't have in Spain a really cheap functional connection like the Melita's 5 Mb (13'85€)... and this is Malta, one of the smallest countries in Europe...

Why dont we start an uprising in Spain claiming for the right price for Internet?

We should do it, i think the prices in Spain are too high...

Second, the central heater system

where i life, in Galicia, almost all our flats includes some kind of integrated central heater system, mostly City Gas heating or electrical heating.

I know the weather here is temperate, but this last two weeks it is been really cold (between 6 and 12 degrees celsius).

As they dont need the heating system most of the time, i haven´t seen central heating in any place. The most usual, yet, even in our residence are the old (for us) catalytic stove or oil heaters...

And at last, the water and electric power

There is water - even warm water- in Malta of course.

And electric power... You must no be afraid about that.

;)

But you should remember that the plugs are different here...

And that was all ...

See you

My final test

It's done¡

I finished my EFCELT (EF Cambridge English Level Test).

It lasted 40 minutes, 50 questions, 4 possible answers (A B C D).

First exam part is a listening. There are 12 questions about this. It was a quite easy listening...

The second part are grammar questions - filling the gap style -.

All the rest of questions, may be the most complicated exam part, are about piece of text. You have to read it, make up your mind and then answer some questions about it. Most of times the response is not obvious, you must understand the text to know the right answer.

In my mind, i believe i did it quite well... but i really didn´t know the answers in most grammar points... so i followed my instinct, filling the gaps with my first thought ... i freed my mind¡

We will have our certificate and mark level next friday...

Let's see what happens¡

See you¡

A world of keyboards

Today only a curiosity, have you ever thougth about how many languages are in the world?

Have you ever thougth that almost every language needs a different keyboard in the computer?

Here they are some pictures for different keyboards and different languages around the world...

German one

Norweian one

Russian one

French one

and go on ...

Sorry for the short post but tomorrow is my final test...

See you ¡

Poop related curiosities

Poop in the toilets.

How are the water closed here? the handle is a little different but they work as is expected...

by the way, there are several polite ways to ask for the toilets location:

Excuse me, where are the restrooms?

Excuse me, where are the gents? (for men)

Excuse me, where are the ladies? (for women)

and a lot of sentences to tell about it to your friends:

i am going to send a letter

i am going to communicate with the nature.

or even thousands of unpolite SLANG expressions like:

i am going to take a dumb (voy a cagar)

Poop in public conveniences

There are a lot of public conveniences everywhere, not usual in Galicia. Once I had a lunch in Gozo and there were no toilets in the bar, i had to go out, cross the street and use the public convenience...

This is just a curiosity, i think the billboard is wrong because i was looking for the public convenience and the sign pointed directly to the sea ... (a cagar de campo? a cargar de mar?)

Pet's poop

If you have a pet you must collect its poop, this is the law. We have the same law in Spain. Fortunately the sign is not only in Maltese, we can read it in english too...

Sorry for the escathological post... ;)

See you¡

Maltese's cars and tuning

Hi, it looks like that quite a bit of Malta's young people are crazy about cars and motorbikes. It is funny for me, since they dont have any real highway and the speed limit,all around the country, is 70 km/h . So they can't really drive its machines fast... but they show off all its power in every roundabout.

I am sure that these guys must watch on tv the american show MTV tuning, because there are a lot of tuned cars and motorbikes.

The common element in all these cars are the rear spoiler, you can do your washing and dry all one's family clothes in one of this spoilers. Here some examples:

There are some differences with Spain for the newbies, first, they drive in the left, you know about this, but the have another color for the new driver signal.

And it is usual to see in some cars these suplementary antenna... what are these antennas for? i really dont know... :(

I have seen motorbikes too, a lot of new sport motorbikes with modified suspensions and transmissions in order to make the bike a bit longer.

As an example i have seen Suzuki Hayabusa sports bike with a long rear, may be 30 cm larger than its regular size (sorry i dont have photo of this).

The photo here is a vintage english motorbike... there are some of these around the island too. I had never seen one motorbike of these brand before... but i knew about them -Royal Enfield- (thank you Rob ;))

Of course there are tuning in Spain too, but i am not used to see as many tuned cars as i can see here, also I have never seen enlarged sport motorbikes in Spain's roads (may be in motorbike expositions) and i think it would be ilegal and dangerous because you are modifying the dynamics of your motorbike.

But here they live a relaxed life and i think the law is not too strict...

Ahhh mediterranean life¡

See you¡

Farewell and the big brother house feeling

I have been here for 3 weeks and i started to forge a relationship with some people, but this is EF Malta, the people come here for a short period of time and then leave the island to continue with their lifes.

Do you know Apocalyptica? it is an instrumental Finnish band and they have a song called Farewell. You can listen it and try to imagine how i feel now...

Anyway, i'll try to explain this in words... because today i am having strange feelings inside me. Some of my "two week's friends" are leaving the island. Obviously we will keep in touch by email (i am thinking about facebook and it is possible that i made an account ...) because we have to share our photos, videos and experiences, really a lot of them in a short time .

I am feeling sad, unhappy,... but three weeks ago i didn,t know anything about these people or even more i didn't know anything about their countries...

Nearly all here are suffering some kind of "big brother house's player" feeling, as if we knew so so much about the people that is leaving...

Also, the weather is not good it has been raining all the day, pouring sometimes. The day was dark since the morning and this helps me to feel more in blue... This is our life, you known worth people and then you lose them.

Tomorrow, new people are coming, another week here is going to start. Maybe i will make new friends, but these friends that have left the island today, all of us have left something of you in me.

I hope, we can meet again somewhere in time...

Take care of yourself and enjoy your life¡

I get my haircut

Hi everybody.

Finally i manage to get my haircut in Malta, another life experience in these mediterranean islands.

Yesterday i was looking on internet for some hairdressers vocabulary, because i didn't know how to say "rebajame de aqui" or "capeame allá". Now i know several words like gel, dandruff, curl hair, straight hair, fringe, ... but while i was looking the vocabulary i realized that it was better to look for a photo and show it to the hairdresser.

In the early morning, before my lessons i was wandering around St Julians and i discovered a hairdresser's called: "Jasmine Salon"

It is near my residence, the staff were 2 women and like all the maltese people, these women were speaking maltese.

I asked for a haircut to one of them and i shown her, the photo i downloaded from Internet the night before...



This was all our conversation in english until the final "how much is it?, please"

:)

are the maltese people talkative? i think so, but they speak maltese most of time and as far as i know they only use english in the academic and professional worlds.

Anyway, back in my haircut, the hairdresser couldn´t do miracles so my face is the same that it used to be, but i am really pleased with my new haircut. :D

Are you ready to know my new fashioned appearence? because at present i am a really goodlooking man :D, even more, i am a maltese gentleman¡

By the way, the haircut costs me only 10€, not to expensive, altough i know that there are some places in Valleta (capital city) when you can get your haircut by 3€.

That it is¡

See you

A night at Eden Cinema and other curiosities

i went to Eden Cinema yesterday, and i want to tell you about this new and "fascinating" experince ... not really fascinating, is quite similar to any other cinema in Spain... at least i think so. However i am going to talk about this :)

At first i want you to know where is the place, so here is the link.

Now i can talk about the prices, as far as i know, the prices are not always the same, they are different if the film is a newer one or an older one. So you have two prices, 7€ for the newest and 3 € for the oldest.

I didn't bother about the film i was going to see, i solely wanted to live a new Maltese experience... so we (a switzerland friend and me) decided to choose a cheap old film.

Our first candidate film was malta force.


I think this is the unique maltese made film in all the movie schedule, and i am sure that this film is not going to be broadcasted in Spain. :D

As far as i know, this is a maltese humorous film, something like Torrente in Spain... but it was a pity because they only broadcast this film in maltese, and i can not understand a single word in this language...

So, our selected film was unstoppable.

The film language was perfect american english and i realised that me english is quite poor, because most of time i did not understand anything... may be a 10% out of all the conversation...

anyway this was the typical american action movie, with Denzel Washinton as main star. The script is like all this usual american ones, a regular american guy that becames into a hero in order to avoid a catastrophe... , this time due to an unstoppable and uncontrolled train ...

The only curious thing during the film, was the "snack break", they stop the broadcasting 10 minutes to allow people to buy some snacks. A snack break in a film lasting only 120 mins?

In my humble opinion this is not too usual in Spain.

In other matters, i want to show you a curiosity... the internet knows about us... (the big brother is watching...) look at the advertisements that you can see in "la voz de galicia" when you are using the internet connection from the EF school.

There is a lot of russian people here and "internet" knows it, so russian ads everywhere¡

Be careful out there¡

See you

The bowling experience

Hey, i want to talk about my bowling experience yesterday.

We played in the evening , after a long day with a lot of classes, among 5 mates (EF students, students of another schools and other foreigner people working here too) in the Eden Superbowl bowling.

Before yesterday, I have never been bowling in a real bowling alley.... i had to rent one of this special shoes ... my god, Did you know this shoes? This may be the most unhealthy shoes in the world... how many bacterias are living inside them? I prefered not to think about that and just play... and surprinsingly i am not that bad¡

It was a really interesting match, because we were 6 people (2 french, 1 african -i can not remember the country-, 2 germans and me). I had met these people before and they are really good guys...

We were laughing most of time, and i really enjoy this time... and by the way, we spoke all the time in english, but, the funny thing is that mostly of time i didn't realize of it... It is easier to understand the english when it is spoken by Non native people.

By the way, i was able to reach the 3º position (bronze medal) with 84 points, no strikes but a very good average score for my first time...

When we left the bowling we had a good time in a PUB near my residence, we enjoy some drinks while we spoke about life...

I really came back late in the night, may be 1 am in the morning, and today i got up early again, i am tired of course, but this experiences are great, so the bowling experience worth it.

See you¡

Culture and manners

Hey, today i had a really hard day with lessons during 8 hours since 11:00Am to 7:20pm.

This week the lessons were concentrated in 4 days because the friday we are going to have a free day... tourism day.

The main issue to talk about today is the culture and manners of Maltese people. As far as i known, in this country is rude call a waiter shouting, whistling, or clapping your hands..., you should only up your hand and wait. Otherwise the waiter could feel that they are being disturbed on its work and do not attend you at all ...

To say the truth, this really dont happens here in St Julians, because there are a lot of foreigners and they are used to the Spanish way of life (a grito pelao¡)

I want to talk about my own experience, i am not really having too much contact with real maltese people,we are all foreigners here, but in my humble opinion, they are very zealous with his culture and manners and not too much openminded... Please, remember that this is a completely subjective opinion, may be i haven´t had enough experiences to say this.

As an example i want to talk about one "problem" i had the last night while i was at the monday party of EF school. A problem that really upset me:

I left my overcoat in a stack of clothes over a table, as usual. I had 2 small beers an then i decided that it was enough, i needed to rest at the residence.

When i went to the table for my coat and tried to take it, some Maltese guys, 2 mid-aged couples, (i prefer to think that they were a bit drunk), took my coat and looked at me as if i were a burglar... they review my coat, front and behind, i allowed them to do that because i knew perfectly that this coat was mine... when they finish its review, they were complete disrespectful and unpolite with its manners, and then they gave it back to me with contempt...

There wasn´t any apologize for its behavior, but they let my leave "alive"... i could see something in their eyes ... may be Xenophobia against the foreigners....

I don´t know, but i felt so bad and really angry, so i prefered going the residence and have a nice rest...

Today it is another day. May be it was all a simple misunderstanding, but i am too sensitive about this manners... then i will remenber it in the future - not all the people here is trustworthy-.

See you guys¡

The Malta bus service

Well this is a common topic for every foreigner in Malta.

The Bus public transport service. My first impresion was that the most of the buses are too old and now after 2 weeks here i can confirm that this is true, the most of the buses are quite old.

The buses themselfs are different among them, so is difficult to see 2 fraternal twins buses, altough all of them are painted in the same yellow colour (gray in Gozo island).

The elderly buses owns a string goberned bell to say the driver "kindly stop in the next bus stop". The more modern ones have the usual electronic bell button...

The bus marks are not known to me, i think they are english marks, it is difficult to see a Volvo, Man or Renault bus here.

When you are waiting in a bus stop and you can see your bus approaching, you must raise your hand and wave to tell the driver to stop and let you take the bus, otherwise the driver will not stop and you should be waiting for the next bus to come.

In every city there is a special bus stop called the "bus terminus", is just a "bus stop". You are not going to find there any building with confortable banks or any speakers system informing about the arrivals or departures, but you can find there the time tables (great) but unfortunately are a complety mess and nobody can make up its mind with that... moreover

you don't expect to have a time table in every bus stop, because this is not true, the best you can do is to ask for information to any kind pedestrian...

The main bus terminus is in Valleta, the capital city, it is just opposite the main city entrance door... this is really convenient for the tourist like me :D, by the way, it is crazy because let's suppose that now is the 20:00pm, all the buses wich its departure time is 20:00pm sets off at the same time¡ without any announcement, just start its engines and the race starts...

And i say, the race starts because the drivers are a bit mad here... i think they should be good WRC drivers... :D

But anyway, the service is really cheap, a trip costs between 0,47€ and 1,18€... (0,50€ and 1,2o€ really, you should no expect any change, and it is better if you pay with cash and no with notes).

And at short, to say the truth, the global service is good as far as you can reach every place in the island in less than 1 hour.

ps.- there is no railroad service here¡ the island is too small ;)

Gozo

This sunday i was in Gozo, it was a nice trip, i did it with two friends, a german classmate and a friend of him, really nice guys.
It is a quite long journey, that last almost 4 hours, 2 hours to go and 2 hours to come back to St Julians, but you can enjoy the seashore with grateful landscapes in the meantime...

Regarding the transport, we used bus and ferry.
The bus is always a difficult experience to talk about (i'll do it in another post, i am collecting information ;)),


The ferry trip is just a stroll, 25 minutes, Gozo is really close to the main island, Malta. I really loved the ferry, it was a sunny day, the blue sea, i put off my cap and i could feel the breezze ... ahhh Mediterranean life¡

mediterranean life ;)

Then in Gozo we went to the capital city (Victoria - Rabat) by bus. It is really a town, quiet, peaceful,... we saw the Ciutatella, another walled castle from where you could see all around, i think this is the highest place in the island,



Then we tried to visit the azura window, prehistoric heritage, i think, but we could not manage this, "mi gozo en un pozo", because we are out of season and there were no bus lines working to this destination, only taxi, i we didnt want to pay a taxi...
So, we had lunch in Victoria, we were speaking about of a lot of funny things, about Germany and Spain, joking, we were laughing most of time. I think that my humour sense can be defined as multinational...(my friends known already about my humour sense :D), but anyway, the main goal to be here is talking and we tried to talk as much as possible.

When we came back, i enjoyed the ferry again, we met some new people from France, we were all the time talking to them, and we could see a beautiful sun fall, from the ferry, the sun falling, the skyline of Gozo and the mediterranean see, it is a pity but i had ran over my camera battery and i couldn´t take any photo....

At last, i want to say thank you to the german guys. They were very kind, because they speaked all the time in english although they are german, and i could understand the conversation and be part of it... It is a bit frustrating when the people start to speak in their mother tongue and i can not understand any word...

Bye.

a day in Mdina

Saturday, i was in the residence until late in the morning, i had my lunch (several ham and salami sandwitches) and i made up my mind for going to Mdina, the former capital city of Malta.

Mdina rises in a hill so you have a wide landscape. You can see several other cities from here with the blue of the sea and the sky in the distance.

Mdina is the name for the old city inside the walls, It is a a complety walled city, with bastions and towers, plenty of medival ambient, with regal houses, churchs, museums, a cathedral...

The most of the streets are very narrow and there are some little squares too, you could think that you are living some centuries ago when you are inside Mdina, due to, it is really carefully preserved.

Beside Mdina, but already outside the walls, there is another city called Rabat. Rabat is a moderm city but with a lot of history too.

i visited the St Paul's catacums in Rabat, and you dont be afraid, nowadays there is no dead bodies, though they used to be there a long of time ago... :)

Regarding the heritage, really these islands had a very long history with a lot of influences, you can see something interesting everywhere you go.

Every city has its own history and vestiges, most of them are catholic stuff, the people here feels the cristiasm deep inside, really at heart.

I am here studing and to tell the truth i think i am not going to have enough time to see all this vast heritage, because i only do some tourist trips the saturdays and/or sundays... It will be a pity, but an excuse to come back again in the future ... ;)

In the other hand, it was not all tourism. Yesterday i attended a party in Paceville. the venue was the Havana Club. i did not like the ambient and went back to th residence early.

The problem was not the music, it was dance music as in every other pub here, so what was wrong with the ambient?,

Mainly i was intimidate by the security guys (more wide than tall) and the policemen (yes, the policemen inside a Pub, every 5 minutes ¡)

i think there were something wrong with that place yesterday...

By the way, drinking here is more expensive that to drink in other pubs around here (as a example, a pint of Cisk -local beer- is 4€ here vs 2,6€ in Native pub )

This is a photo of Paceville, upstairs you can find all the wellknown pubs here...

;)

See you

A rainy day for a meeting with an old friend

Yes, i know that this year Spain is suffering a cruel winter, with low temperatures, hail, snow and rain.

Here the weather is more stable, almost every day we wake up in the morning with a temperate temperature and a clean blue sky.
During all the days i have been here, only one day was drizzling, but it was just a bit in the early morning.

But today, my friends, today it is been the first really bleak day.
This morning when i wake up, it was only a bit cloudy and windy, but as far as the day was growing up, the weather has becoming more and more crazy.
In the middle of the morning we were attending our classes and it was raining cat and dogs out there... it was really pouring, this was not a simple drizzle¡

Regarding this, owning an umbrella is useless, because the wind blows too much, then you get your clothes wet whatever you do.
Furthermore, i didn't realize before, but there are not too many sewer (there are even streets with no drain at all), so, when it is really raining, like today, the streets become like little streams of water flowing freely everywhere and you get your shoes wet too.




Anyway, once our classes finished when i went back to the residence, i decided to buy some food at the Arkadia local food store...
And she was there, it was a shock, are you really here?, it has been a long time... i thought i was in a dream, but this was real¡
My former friend, one of my prefered in my childhood, i really loved her... i think some of my elderly friends knew this girl too... ;)
I want to introduce you my older friend MIRINDA (sorry, the photo is no too good).



Yes she is alive, and she is living now in Malta¡
XD

In the supermarket i found this guy too, he told me that he is my "cousin"...
I dont think this was the right name for a product if they want to sell it in Spain. Do you agree?
( come pudding PRIMO¡ XD )





Take care

Bye bye

Garage in use (Vados permanentes)

Hi, today just a curiosity.

In Spain we are used to see in the doors of our garages a signal for "vado permanente".
You have to pay a fee at your council every year in order to have this signal in your garage's door.

Here in Malta, i have never seen this signal, all you can see is a red square with white letters "Garage in use day and nigth. Strictly no parking"



There is no serial number and i dont even known if the garage's owners need to pay any fee to use it as in Spain.
Almost all the garages have its own red signal, with the "no parking here" advertise.
But here comes the curiosity, have you ever seen a garage without a door?
Look at his photo and tell me where the door is... by the way i took this photo in Sliema, the nearest city to St Julians, where i am staying...



Bye,bye¡

The Malta Experience

Hi there¡
Today i went to Valletta, the capital city of this little country called Malta.
It is a nice 40 minutes bus trip from St Julians, where my accommodation is, to Valletta Bus Terminus. I'll tell you in other post about buses...

Today in Valletta i was making my own way among its streets, when i found that place
http://www.themaltaexperience.com/
I didn´t known anything about these islands' history before i arrived here 2 weeks ago... so why not take a tour about the Malti History.


The "tour" is really a HD documentary film that last 45 minutes. You are able to hear the audio in 20 languages with his simultaneous translation system... but nothing more.
I think the price is a bit expensive, 6,50€ for a student or 9,50€ for an adult. It is just a short film... but anyway the documentary is interesting and summarize 7000 years of Malti history...

So, my pupils, today a lesson of Malti History (i apologize for the short lesson but i can not remember everything, furthermore, i selected to hear the english audio, so i didnt understand all the film neither :( )

At a glance:
.)7000 years ago there were prehistoric settlements in these islands.

.)5000 year ago these civilization collapse.

.)Since then a lot of civilizations colonize the islands by sea, bringing here their languages and manners,
-Phoenicians
-Carthaginians
-Romans
-Arabs (the local language is very influenced by this culture)

.)Cristiansm was introduced in the islands by St Paul... after a shipwreck¡

.)In the middle ages, cristianism raise and now most of the people here are catholics, the catolicsm is deeply inside the maltese's people.

.)The maltese cross, is the sign of a religious order, the order of St John. This order was first created to provide care for poor and sick pilgrims to the Holy Land.
It became a militar order and they fought agains Turks. It is famous how this order defended the island for more than three months during the Great Siege by the Turks. They won, and this is the main reason of the catolicsm here today... who knows about the main religion nowadays if St John Knighs were defeated by turks?

.)The time was corrupting the honorable order of St John, and Napoleon Bonaparte, take advantage of this to colonize the island of Malta.

.)in the 19th century the british came here to liberate these people from the bad manners that the french army had.
British people bring here his language and manners, too. Today everyone in the islands knows how to speak english and drives in the left. :)

.)in the 20th century, the 2º world war had Malta as a strategy point, due to, the island is in the geografical middle of the mediterranium sea.
Germans and Italians and allies have given to this land some of his manners too...

.) In 1964 the islands achieve its independence

.) In 1974 they became a republic

.) In 2004 they were included as another country in the european union.
...
And now i am here¡

That is it.

Remember to do your home work about this lesson :P

and please, be careful with the data in this post, because it could be not accurate...
:D

See you¡

Buying and Eating vegetables in Malta

hi, today i was a bit hangover. I didn´t know that word in english before, but i am doing my best to improve my language skills... :)
I really think that the alcohol drinks here are absolutely poison, it is no normal how bad i was feeling this mornig ... believe me, i did not drink so much yesterday... then now i know that i´ll take it easy the next time.
;)

But i had to get up this mornig because i had to attend my lessons... 6 classes of 40 minutes each... i felt like dying.... my god. But yesterday's party was my fault and i am here to learn.

Anyway, i have to post something interesting, i dont want to lose my loyal readers, ... so i am going to talk about these "little lorrys selling vegetables" that you can find everywhere all around St Julians.
As far as i know this is very popular in Great Britain, but i had never seen it before, so i tooked some photos.

And by the way, the vegetables here are good, you can find any kind of fresh vegetables and fruits, ... a healthy and tasty alternative for so much pizza.

You can find oranges, cucumber, onions, cabbage, apples, salad, carrots, pears, ... and so on. Always fresh and ready to eat.

It seems that the price is just a little bit more expensive than spanish price, but i think this depends on the season...

So let's eat some healthy food¡
(Mineralizarse y supervitaminarse)

XD