We celebrated Mexico’s Independence Day in Malta in a bar at the harbour (last year we were in Oslo at the harbour with some fireworks going off).

Our first module this semester is called Professional Reflections. We will have several teachers and guest lecturers. We just finished our first two weeks with Linda Mitchell from New Zealand and it’s been amazing. She not only looks like Natalia’s grandma, but is very inspiring and nice to listen to (because of her accent).

She has been telling us a lot about Centres of Innovations in New Zealand. The staff in these centres work with researchers from universities to investigate areas of their practice. I would love that job. I would love to be one of the educators inquiring into practice with my colleagues and a researcher, and I would also love to be the researcher who supports the team of teachers. Unfortunately, funding has been cut to these programs and I will not be sending resumes to New Zealand…

We took Oli out for ice cream. When we came back our house was filled with friends. SURPRISE! Happy 30th my pal!

got up with the sun. did yoga. ate breakfast on the balcony. walked across the street to the university. concentrated all morning. ate lunch in the shade. read an article. went to the beach with friends. floated in the Mediterranean. ate ice cream at the seawall. had dinner with roomies. wrote a postcard. thought of the beautiful people in my life.

We have the best life together, even when we are apart.

These photos were taken on our road trip in BC last month. Instead of turning right and heading home, we decided to turn left to have an adventure.

After looking at a few apartments we found the perfect one for us. We didn’t get our first choice, the huge huge huge apartment right by the beach. The landlord wanted someone to stay for at least a year… too bad, that would have been nice and some of you could have come over for a visit!

The 2nd most perfect apartment is ours though and we’re moving in tomorrow. I’ll post some pictures once we moved in. There will be enough space for you to visit as well. Please do!

With our biggest worry out of the way we can start to work on our homework and catch up on some sleep (if the church will let us).

…it’s a thunder storm keeping us awake at night.

The church is across the street and woke us up every hour on the hour and ALL OF SUNDAY morning. *Hahah, it’s ringing as I’m typing this. It’s calling me*

Last night there was an enormous thunder storm. I’ve never heard anything like it. The streets are flooded now and the bus didn’t show this morning to bring us to school. We decided to walk to school on the non-existent sidewalks. Back in Ireland you have bring rain boots, here you bring flip flops to walk through the deep puddles… It was absolutely crazy. We’ve never been so happy to see our university!

And, to cheer you up, some girls on walking down the street…

Hello all,
I’ve arrived in Malta 🙂 It’s hot and sunny.

Some of my friends are already here and we’re happy to see each other again. It’s funny to see everyone in new clothes… Looks like everyone had a chance to trade in their winter sweaters for their summer dresses.

We’re staying in student accommodation for about a week and will start house hunting right away. Cross your fingers.