I was sixteen and living with my friend’s family in Asturias, Spain for the summer. This early experience ignited a travel lust in me that has never since been satiated. I realized that the world was a placed I needed to see, smell, feel and be a part of in order to understand the complexities of life. The world opened up to me that summer, revealing an expansive wealth of opportunities that can only be realized through continued life experience.

Malta is a tiny island littered with archaeological ruins, age-old infrastructure, and melt-your-heart cute villages. Situated in the Mediterranean between North Africa and Sicily, it is one of the oldest inhabited places in the world. The ruins there are older than the Egyptian pyramids and the Maltese people have changed little about their lifestyle on their beautiful rock in the sea since centuries ago.