Books and Beans

Gozitan Pierre J Mejlaq is a writer/translator based in Belgium. He is warmly welcomed to the Maltese blogging community. This week his former lecturer Brenda Murphy is visiting him in Brussels:

Brenda Murphy is such a wonderful friend. She was one of my favourite lecturers at the University of Malta, introducing me to Semiotics and Cultural Studies. She was also my tutor while I wrote my undergraduate dissertation Exploring Identities: The Maltese Migrant in NYC in a Post-9/11 World, in which I analysed whether a group of Maltese migrants in NYC felt more New Yorkers following 9/11. I might blog about my findings one day.

Brenda arrived in Brussels on Sunday afternoon. She brought me a bag full of Twistees (Malta's very own crispy snack) and some delicious buns baked that same morning in Qormi, Malta's capital of bakers. I met her in the evening and went for a stroll around the old quarters. Dinner with Brenda at the Manneken Pis restaurant turned out to be very inspiring. We talked about my new academic adventure (as she wants me to describe it) and I slept thinking of how lucky I am to have friends like her.

Malta - Waterford's new baby sister - Brenda Murphy reports.

World Cup in Gozo by Pierre J Meilak