Amazing how studying is taking over my life... well the job search is currently quite weak .. there seems to benothing for me out there to do part time and just rake in some cash to save up and live on..
M thesis research is getting to me. well I need a tutor and a precise cut to the subject! Foolish old Alba decides to do it on immigration right in the middle of the heat and therefore finds herself in a sticy situation....
So well, yes I want to tackle the rights of immigrants, or more precisely of asylum seekers... but here i seem to be surrounded by walls wherever i go. Looking forward to reading Zigmund Bauman's book Liquid Fear since I apparently am swimming in it! At least I' m comforted by a little activity that I'm aiming to put up with a friend based on promotion of cultural diversity amongst children - always a good starting point...

As for me, back to the study of secession and self- determination

9 days away from Malta
2 weeks away frm my Blog
and what's changed?

The Earth shook and took 290 lives due to careless building
around 6000 people left their homes to go support those that are left without
A hospital that was built in 30 years was cracked in less than 30 seconds

watching all this from Italy and then from Malta, from my sofa, doesn't make it any more distant
I'm heart- wrenched, and I think of my friend's family who live close by... who are lucky to havenot felt the quake.....

I put our lives into perspective, their comfort and the relative absence of worry we live in
... let me rephrase... the relative absence of worry of cataclismic natural disasters washing over our islands....

Our worries here are different... how different? Not at all ...they are the same as everyone else's (a few of those that everyone feels) Health, Money, Weather, Boredom, Happiness, Heartache, Partners, Children, Family, Loneliness, Friends... our cares are the same everywhere...ours?
Yes ours - as in those of Mankind are just the same.... but definitely lacking the fear of extreme dangers and problems that others face in their day to day lives...

The truth is, as time goes by, as I sit in Malta for over a few weeks after 4 years away I reiterate my personal reflection that as my grandmother would say tutto il mondo e paese.. wherever you go in the world life doesn't change too much....basic evils, ills and good of society are everywhere, but here we are safER, more Sheltered, maybe thanks to our waters.... but definitely also thanks to our size

A great consolation ... but also a little worry :) at least in the earthquake case, as many have said these days, maybe Maltese should start keeping an eye open and giving some insight into the fact that we too are on a seismic fault line....
for the rest of the things?
Let's just thank our lucky stars that one of the only differences Malta has is it is an island and its problems are the same, but with a different impact (e.g. the financial/economic crisis)

It's good to be home

But I won't stop thinking, or isolate my mind from the world around... I wish I could help other people open theirs