Winterpost:Josianne Zahra

Winter Festivals


In this season, in winter, we celebrate the Carnival. Many persons wear Carnival costumes for this occasion. We organize this festival at Valletta, our capital city. We make very different and colourful Carnival floats with many personalities from ‘cartoons’ etc. We also make one of the King of Carnival, which will be the most colourful and original Carnival floats. Obviously, these take a lot of time to be manufactured, about 10 months, because they are normally one or two storey high and about six metres as a width. Many persons enjoy this particular festival, but as usual there are those persons who don’t like it. As a winter festival we also have the Eurovision Song Contest. In Malta this festival plays an important part for Maltese citizens. Many Maltese singers take part in the Malta Song for Europe song festival, but only one singer must represent us in an other country. Although we are a small island, we had always done our best to have a good result as we usually have. The Eurovision Song Contest is a very important festival as it gives a great opportunity to the Maltese singer who represents us.

Winter Activities


At Sunday afternoons, usually a lot of families like to go for a walk by the countryside or by the sea-side. But when it rains, families usually stay at home watching television or a DVD. There are also some families who like to play board games when it rains. Teens and youths usually like to go out on Saturdays and go to Paceville (a village where there are a lot of pubs, discotheques and shops) or go to Marsascala to have a drink for there are a lot of pubs or to have a promenade by the sea side. When it rains, youths usually like to watch television or a DVD with their friends and have a good time with each other. I personally don’t like to go out at the week-ends, because I think that at week-ends I have to relax a bit. I don’t go out with my friends because I don’t have fun with them; I prefer to go out with more mature friends or with a boy friend.


Winter food

Green beans soup

Ingredients:

A spoon of margarine
Some garlic
300g fresh green beans
2 cups (500 ml) warm vegetable putty
A cup (250 ml) pasteurized skimmed milk
50g grated cheese
Some pepper
Some chopped fresh parsley

Method:

In a 3 litre pot mix the margarine, the garlic and beans together for about 3 minutes. Don’t cover the pot.
Add the vegetable putty and pepper, cover the pot and leave it for 15 minutes
Then as the pot begins to loose heat, add the milk and cheese.

Finally plate, and put parsley at the side of the plate.