Malta - a Fascinating English-Speaking Island in the Center of the Mediterranean
It was a magical time for me, when I was 16 1/2, to go on a 3-week summer study program on the island of Malta - a pivotal moment towards my eventual bilingualism . My first time abroad on my own. To the astonishment of friends who have grown up in a world of digital cameras, I didn't take a single picture at that time. Ah, the days before handy digital cameras! Hard to explain to anyone who hasn't lived thru them! Teenage me didn't feel like lugging around a heavy, pricey camera that needed expensive film - film to carry, safeguard and later spend more money I didn't have on developing... Assuming that my dad would have loaned his camera to me in the first place! So, how to illustrate this grand adventure? Well, I managed to pull off the Internet a number of images that adequately match my memory of the place. Theses are NOT generic images - they are images that best approximate Malta, as close as possible to the way I remember it. The capital - Valletta I arr