I have never been very comfortable in front of a camera or a microphone or especially when having to speak to an audience.  How can I ever forget that time in the mid-eighties, at the height of Malta’s political and constitutional crisis, when as a committee member of the Partit Demokratiku Malti (PDM) I was asked to be one of the speakers at a public meeting to be given in Pjazza Regina (Queen’s Square) in Valletta.  I was already in quite a state while waiting for my turn to step on the podium but the real trembling fit started the moment I began my talk on pluralism in politics.  No doubt the assembled group, which numbered no more than 25 curious passers-by plus the odd supporter and inevitable heckler, must have noticed my shivering hands in sharp contrast to the warm early summer weather.

So when I was approached to be interviewed on behalf of the school I work for (IELS), my initial reaction was to say no.  It was only on the insistence of some colleagues of mine that I relented.  There was no prepared speech or carefully thought out answers here, just a few minutes preparatory work with the interviewer and the camera started rolling.  This is why I am particularly chuffed with the result.

Hopefully my words or my looks will work their magic and attract more students to the school!