{"id":1451,"date":"2020-01-13T12:07:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T11:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2020-01-14T07:59:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T06:59:43","slug":"journal-writing-copy-copy-copy-copy-copy-copy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/?p=1451","title":{"rendered":"My first Christmas Experience as a Secondary School student"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:right\" class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em><strong>contributed&nbsp;by Jeremy Grech,&nbsp;Class 7P<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size\">This year\u2019s Christmas Experience was a truly successful one. I really enjoyed the way it was planned out. Everyone worked hard to prepare the products that each stall was going to sell. There were the traditional Maltese stalls which sold traditional Maltese food and sweets such as the delicious <em>ftajjar<\/em>, <em>imbuljuta<\/em> and <em>pudina<\/em>. <em>The dessert balls<\/em>, hot dogs, coffee stand and the Maltese table were quite a hit! Mince Pies and Chocolate truffles were also available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20191218_163542_Bokeh-e1578914464481-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20191218_163542_Bokeh-e1578914464481-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20191218_163542_Bokeh-e1578914464481-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20191218_163542_Bokeh-e1578914464481-203x270.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The art stalls were\nvery creative and they comprised string art as well as painting on wood\nand ceramics. Our students also made a beautiful banner which was displayed in\nthe canteen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20191218_165044-Copy-1024x484.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20191218_165044-Copy-1024x484.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20191218_165044-Copy-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20191218_165044-Copy-768x363.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20191218_165044-Copy-360x170.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Felt decorations and wooden decorations\nwere also being sold.&nbsp; Some of the felt\ndecorations looked like shirts but their purpose was to hold wine bottles. There\nwere also wooden decorations which were rather challenging to make. Other\nproducts such as handmade soaps were produced and sold from various\nstalls.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/received_510735059651779-Copy-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/received_510735059651779-Copy-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/received_510735059651779-Copy-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/received_510735059651779-Copy-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/received_510735059651779-Copy-360x270.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/received_510735059651779-Copy.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Religious activities such as \u2018Prayer\nSpaces\u2019 and the \u2018Live Crib\u2019 helped us appreciate the true meaning of\nChristmas.&nbsp; Beautiful nativity figures were also\nsold during the Christmas Experience.\nOne of the stalls wasn\u2019t selling things at all.\nThis was the stall named \u2018Message to a Stranger\u2019 which made crafts aimed at\ninspiring our visitors to embrace the Christmas spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/received_845633109221951-Copy-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/received_845633109221951-Copy-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/received_845633109221951-Copy-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/received_845633109221951-Copy-203x270.jpeg 203w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/received_845633109221951-Copy.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I would like to take this opportunity to\nthank the students and staff who helped prepare this wonderful event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>contributed&nbsp;by Jeremy Grech,&nbsp;Class 7P This year\u2019s Christmas Experience was a truly successful one. I really enjoyed the way it was planned out. Everyone worked hard to prepare the products that each stall was going to sell. There were the traditional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/?p=1451\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}