summer heat

hey!
these past 2 days have passed in a flash u wouldnt believe how fast!
today was SO hot and SO humid i thought i would die! i went to sliema today (shopping town in malta - the brand named shops eg, Zara, maxmara, mango, esprit etc are there) anyways whilst me and my friend were running around buying the stuff we needed, we died of heat! and we also discovered that contact lenses only exist in packets of 30 (15 pairs) for 40 euros! expensive when all she needed was about 7 pairs!
anyway later we went for lunch and i met one of my old flings... it had been a while since i last saw him adn i invited him to come with us for a drink! we enjoyed catching up talking and what not. it will b nice wen we start uni again so i can see all my friends again, summer separates us!
anyway tomorrow i'll probably b off to the cinema and friday probably swimming! we'll see.
good night! i have some work to do

good weekend!

it was quite a good weekend! I'm a little disappointed that i didn't get everything i had in my mind done but oh well! there's always tomorrow.
Well yesterday i went to the cinema with my friends and we watched mamma mia! and omg how we laughed! it's a pretty dumb film with a practically non existant plot but it was such fun to take the piss out of it with some good friends!
today was a quite sunday as most sundays usually r! i woke up late and had a late lunch, i studied, watched a DVD, went to mass and had fun with my sister!
quite a good weekend overall!
lets see wat the week has in store for us!
much love!

summer lovin'

today has been such a great day.. it started off really slow but picked up momentum.
i realised that i have so much to be thankful for! my lecturer accepted to be my tutor so that is a load off my mind!
i went to the beach straight after that news! i HAD to celebrate with some of my greatest friends in the world! we had such a fantastic time and the sea was beautiful because now all the tourists and the students who come here to 'learn' english, left and the sea is clean and clear and just lovely.
today was truly a great day. i clearly have so much to be thankful for and i believe that with every bad thing that happens to me, a good thing will happen! i need to b more optimistic lol.
anyways i have some stduying to do so i'll just sign off here and now! good night
xxx

quiet day

well today was relatively quiet.. my family and i just cleaned the house from top to bottom and enjoyed some just plain family time.
On the thesis front i am very glad that i finally have a plan! thank god! now i'm just waiting for a final reply from one of my lecturers and if she accepts i'll be home free.... and VERY glad!
ahhhh! the joys of being a student! but i must say that this is the best time of my life and i am SO thankful that i passed my a'levels and achieved my matriculation certificate! sooo thankful i am at uni and that it's free and i actually get paid to study.
Tomorrow shoudl be fun because i get to go swimming with some friends and just enjoy beign young and being in the sun!
and the moment life is looking really great hopefully it will remain that way lol
lots of love!

tired

Today was another good but busy day! first i went to university to study with one of my best friends :) and i'm very glad to say we got a lot done in spite of the noise other students were making whilst drinking and eating in the library (even though food and drink are strictly prohibited... the librarian was fast asleep so she couldn't stop them!) one sounded like a blocked gulley when he was drinking! but after moving around we finally found a quiet spot and got to work and accomplished 2 hrs worth of work!
When i came home my mum felt like walking to the shops on our street (we live on the main road of my town) so we went and we found some great bargains and a suit for my dad! it was a very successful shopping trip. on the down side i was wearing 2 inch high wedges and my feet are now KILLING me! but they looked so cute on my feet and i love them lol. i loveee shoes :D similar to these:

lol except mine wer Y shaped!

Anyway that was my day! tomorrow will probably quiet helping my mum clean the house!
good night!

university

well another day just flew by! i can't believe how fast the days r passing!
today i went up to uni to check some notices and some formalities for 3rd year! i can't believe i'm going to be in third year as of october! it seems like yesterday i was in 1st year.. and all the emotions new places bring with them!
Anyway wher as i got things done i didnt manage to speak to the thesis co ordinator regarding my tutor coz she wasnt around! oh well i mean it is august and it was a holiday weekend seeing as friday was the assumption! oh well i'm just praying and hoping she answers my email.... fingers crossed!
At uni the faculty was filthy! i mean im glad that they are renovating it but come on! there was a pool of water and students kept stepping in it and sliding across the hall.. actually looking back it was pretty funny!
Tomorrow i'm meeting one of my very close friends for a good studying session at the library and hopefully for lunch filled with girly gossip and giggles. lol!
Wait we had a funny episode during supper tonight.. my dad was making us spaghetti with octopus (we LOVE sea food and fish) and my mum kept giggling at the shapes of the cut octopus.. i was like mummmm you r 57 years old! i did dat when i was 13! and she was all oh well i'm young at heart! and dis made us all laugh hysterically. At the moment we are just trying to enjoy wat's left of our summer! seeing as both my parents are teachers and my brother is a school librarian and i am ofcourse a student we all find october much more as a new year than january!

Anyway i better get some sleep seeing as it is already 11 and i have to wake up early tomorrow!

my family

this is my family :)we are quite a bunch and although sometimes i feel like bashing their heads into the wall i love them all dearly: from left: my brother in law, my sister, dad, mum, me and my bro.
i can't believe that it is already the 18th of august! time is passing by tooo quickly and summer will be over soon! tomorrow i have to go up to the uni to see some lecturers and some notices.. hopefully i will get things done!
today was a quiet day, i did some studying, napped went to church and then out for some ice cream with my parents since they have just came home from their holiday in Belgium. They got me some great stuff: 2 pairs of shoes (shoes r SO expensive in malta and they got me two pairs for 25 euros! yipee!) 2 winter tops, slippers, ear rings, several ornaments and chocolate of course! hehe. I find it weird when they leave me and my brother in the house alone since we r not used to them not being here! my sister still finds it strange that she doesnt live wit mum and dad so i expect when my time comes to leave i will too find it strange! luckily in Malta no where is far so i have that as some kind of consolation! even though i think Malta is too small at times, i find comfort in its size and familiarity. I like it that when i meet someone knew somehow he/she would be friends with either a relative of mine or else with another friend of mine! ok i kind of went off topic here lol wher was i? o yea the family...
Family is a huge issue here in Malta, almost all fmailies are huge which go back several generations. My mum has 4 brothers and 1 sister still living but originally she had 5 brothers and 3 sisters so u can imagine how many uncles and aunts and cousins i have!
My dad on the other hand only has 2 brothers but his mother (my grandmother ... in Maltese we call her Nanna) is still alive and is 85 years old! my grandfather (nannu) died almost a year ago at 87 so as u can tell Maltese live to be quite old!
It is a custom in Malta not to leave home until you get married ... which people overseas would find strange i think! but in Malta it is strange if u leave before u get married! go figure!
My family (nuclear lol) is different because both my parents left Malta in the 70s (these were BAD times for maltese... more detail some other time) for Canada, and there they got to experience a different life... a life which I am very grateful that they led as because of it they have taught me about unity in the face of diversity. they inspire me to venture out of Malta to learn more about myself and to broaden myself .. to become more independent. They have different ideas to the majority of other Maltese and for this I am eternally grateful for!They have encouraged me to go to university and to follow my dreams! where as the mentality here is changing it still definitely needs improvement!
Ok i think I'm rambling lol. anyway i'm going to call it a day and get some sleep! bye guys!

my cats!

this is my cat ophelia! yes we love shakespeare!

this is my other cat Nero ... he is helping me study :) lol.

new blog

ok so i am new here... i've had a blog before but i was quite immature about it lol! but now i'm gonna use this blog to document my life experiences and events
so i guess i should introduce my self?
I am 20 years old and i live in Malta... very small island in the mediterranean sea for more information go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta but i was born in Canada.. we moved to malta when i was about 4 so i really don't remember much! why did we move? welll my parents are both Maltese and they were missing their families!
I am a uni student studying social work at the University of Malta, but since Malta is SO small (it only takes 1hr 30 mins to get from one end of the island to the other and back) i commute and therefore I still live at home with my mum and dad and brother and of course my 2 cats! I have a sister too but she got married ! :(.
Basically I'm a small town (well country lol) girl who gets impressed veryyyyy easily by small things .. for example when i went to england for the first time when i was 11, i was very impressed that soft drinks came in plastic bottles and aluminium cans.. in Malta (up to last feb) they came in glass bottles.
I want to use this blog to basically look back at my student days and remind myself of how much i worked for my degree! but also of how many friends i made and how much i grew as a person. i love studying social work i really feel as if it is my calling and i would love to meet other social work bloggers!
that's all for now!