Language trip - yes or no?

Have you ever thought about going on a language trip on your own or with your bestie - but nobody  gave you this last push to really do it? Well, here it comes.

Since the two of us took the plunge four years ago and went to Malta for two weeks, we’ll help you to overcome your doubts by sharing some of our legendary experiences with u. Totally truthfully and in full detail.

Okay, so let’s start from the very beginning:

- As you will discover soon our arrival didn't belong to our greatest moment -

After a two-hour flight, in which we read our first bravo-magazine, died of laughter and constantly boxed and bothered the poor boy sitting next to us (if u’ll ever read this, we are sorry!), we landed at the airport and waited for someone to pick us up. Unfortunately, nobody did. 

Imagine two 13-year-old girls in the middle of a tiny, fucked-up arrival hall with luggages half their size and no sense of orientation.  - Yeah that was us -  However, after a short crisis session since nobody seemed to care about us, we saw a group from the same travel-organization and joined in. The only problem was, that it wasn’t the right one, what we of course didn’t know at this point. Only in the bus we recognized just in time that it would go to an absolute wrong destination. Back at the arrival hall again completely alone, we finally encountered our driver.

-even though there’s much more to tell, we leave it here and skip to the next incident-

After a sleepless night caused by bingo-playing grannies in the court, we missed the bus going to Mdina. Once more, all alone with our backpacks.

Staying behind was no option, wherefore we ran down to the bus terminal, bought a one way ticket and hit the road to Mdina. Coincidentally we made acquaintance with a malta-obsessed family from France, who enjoyed guiding us around. Hence, we escaped the originally planed tour and met our colleges up again in a bakery selling giant cream cakes. :)

Seriously now. We didn't get lost every day. In order you can imagine how our daily program was like, we will tell you more about the "normal life".

The day started with four hours of language school followed by a lunch break back in the hotel -which wasn't our favourite so we mostly ate melons- and some freetime which we spent tanning at the beach or chilling at the cliffs. After dinner there were always evening activities for instance bbc at the beach, late night swimming or the movies. 

On weekends school was off and full-time excursions filled the time table. Once we drove to Valetta an other time we went to the Blue Lagoon by boat (from which we returned with a sunburn as hell). Don't worry, also partying didn't come off badly. There were enough chances to join parties or discos where you could shake it off -maybe Liz should have partied less hard, since she threw up after the foam party (without drinking any alcohol (?)) -.

Finally we want to conclude the reasons why ypu should do a language trip:

1. improvement of your language skills 

2. get in touch with people from all over the world

3. gain self-confidence and independency 

4. unique life-experiences

5. chance to travel without parents (as a minor)

6. cultural experience (everyday-life, food, people, language)

7. fun !!!

Bisous, 

Liz & Lou