Arrival in Malta at the International Aiport around 4pm
6:30pm Orientation Session about the Isalnd of Malta
7:30pm Dinner at the Lapsi Hotel with the whole group
After some of us did a walk around town to check out the night life! But there wasn't much going on considering the World Cup in France is in full effect!!!
8:30am We were on the bus to drive to the capital city of Valletta for a morning tour.
2:15pm First class at the University of Malta International Studies Location in Valletta
4pm First time to get some real sun in a bathing suit!!! :) One of the definite highlights of the day!
8:30am Bus leaves for our 9am class at the University of Malta
2pm Bus left for our tour of the Neolithic Temple Ruins, the Roman Villa Ruins Museum, and the Mostra Doma Church (a bomb dropped through this church ceiling during WWII into a congregation of 300 people, but didn't explode and didn't hurt anyone!!!) The tour was excellent and I have TONS of pictures for show and tell later!!! :)
6 or 7pm Dinner with a bunch of friends from the group! Again, MANY pictures to show later!
8:30am Bus leaves for our 9am class at the University of Malta
2pm Bus leaves for Mellieha Bay where we spent the day sunning and playing in the Mediterranean!!! I went ski-dooing for the first time and it was AWESOME!!! My friend Lori and I went for 20 minutes and we have been sore the past three days! Never thought you used that many muscles for ski-dooing, but then again, you do have to hang on tight! :)
9:30pm Bus leaves for a local Village Festa which celebrates the Saint's Day of the town. It was incredible! Talk abou photo opportunities waiting to happen!!! The church was fully decorated inside and out and the town itself had decorations everywhere! Plus fireworks were going off in the sky and later they had ground fireworks which were homemade! Beautiful!!!
2pm A bunch of us took a mini bus to Golden Beach and went swimming and sunning for the day! It's was beautiful! :)
8:30am Bus leaves for our 9am class at the University of Malta
2pm A bunch of us went down to the hotel pool to sun and swim
6pm About 10 of us went out to dinner at a really nice Italian restaurant. I got penne pasta with tomatoes and garlic...EXCELLENT!!!One of the best meals I have had hear in Europe! :)
8pm Some of us met in my room to study for Tuesday's quiz. (My roommateis Emily Larson from the swim team at Bradley!)
Bus leaves at 8:30am for our 9am class! Early, early as usual!
2pm A bunch of us went to the rocky beach by our hotel and sunned until 5pm. Then me and four of the guys on the trip went on a banana ride in the sea. (The banana is like a long inner tube type thing which gets dragged behind a speedboat.) It was SO FUN!!! :) I have photos to show that should be fun! :)
9pm My friend Bob and I went out for a bit to eat and then met up with the rest of the group to go out for a little dancing in downtown St. Julians!!! :)
8:30am Bus leaves for our 9am class! Yet again! :)
1:30pm A bunch of us went to the hotel pool to layout until 3:15pm. Camilla was able to where SPF 4 and not get burned!!! :) Can you believe it?!?!
4pm Emily (my roommate) and I and two other friends took a taxi to the airport in order to fix with Emily's luggage which got severly damaged while flying here on Air Malta. Then we headed to the University again to work on our web pages till 8:30pm.
9:30pm 6 of us went out to a local Italian restaurant to have dinner and then we headed back to the bar across the street from the hotel to sit and gab for a while! :)
9am Bus leaves for our field trip to the Malta Financial Services Center.
11:30am Arrive back at the University of Malta where we will have class until 4pm.