gothikmaus | Jul. 19th, 2011

I'm back! I survived! Just barely, but I survived. Malta was the hottest place I've visited so far, some days it was 38°C degrees in the shade and, believe me, there wasn't much shade around. I have a hell of a cough and I lost my voice thanks to the ridiculous air conditioning from the restaurant at the hotel and I got a big purple bruise from slipping at the waterpark on Saturday. When I looked at it in the evening I got really scared, I've never seen such an ugly bruise in my life, it looks like someone beat me with a baseball bat.

What else? I walked around a lot (we had to practically climb a hill to get the students to school, with no hint of shade for most of the way, of course), I haven't been so tanned in ages, I made friends with some very nice people, ate the most delicious watermelon cooler ever and discovered I can drink a pint of cider and 5 vodka-redbull shots without getting drunk. \o/

The only really annoying thing about this trip was that a student's bag got stolen at school, he had his ID in it so we had to get a police report, which wasn't easy, because they wanted to see a document, but, hello, his document was stolen, so I had to tell his mother to send me a copy of her ID and a written statement in which she said the boy really was her son. Then we had to wait until the police computer decided to work and after that we could finally go to the embassy to get a temp document so he could come back to Italy. Another not so nice experience was when some students were caught drinking alcohol and risked being sent back to Italy, but other than that, everything was fine. But now I'm so tired I need a real holiday.

Here, have some pictures:

Statue of Queen Victoria in front of the library in Valletta