I was selected as a facilitator for the Western Europe and North America Leadership Development Seminar (WENA LDS for short :P) which was hosted in Malta. We went a few days before the conference for touring around and for pre conference. malta itself is an interesting place. it is only 316 sq km and has around 450,000 people, so the size of a small city. you can drive across the entire country in 20 minutes but because of the traffic, its more like an hour and a half. malta has been invaded by pretty much everyone (english, italians, spanish, french, arabs) so the maltese language is half arabic and half everything else. you can also see the influences of the british in the slang the maltese use, the italians in the food and the arabs in the architecture. Usually its a balmy 20 degrees in the winter, but not when we were there. it was rainy everyday except for the last 2 days and it was REALLY cold. but the people were amazing - very warm and hospitable. they were willing to show us around, drive us around and of course brag about their food. another weird thing...each house had a name! instead of a number on the outside of the house, it was a name (one was named cockburn..i would not want to live there...)
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