I’m positive that our dear Marlene Spiteri never ever made it to the doorstep of the Convent of the Sacred Heart (probably she does not even know where it is). Her writing gives her away.

I think the Sacred Heart Secondary School she insists so much on mentioning is the Marsa school. Someone in these comments made mention of the Rosary School which, in the 70s, I remember, was the annex which the nuns had rented for a junior secondary school.

I knew quite a bunch of girls there who used to come and borrow books from our library and use the labs and chapel. Most were really hard-working girls but I doubt there’d have been a Marlene Spiteri there.

Most of these girls (women today) have made it to top positions in banks, hospitals, hotels, university, teaching, etc. Our dear Marlene surely must have come from a different catchment area. The girls who came to the Rosary school were from Sliema, St. Julian’s and San Gwann. No girls from the Marsa, Hamrun, Zejtun and adjacent areas.

This reply refers to cat’s question: “U din lil min ser tbellahha li kienet is-Sacred Heart?”

Forsi, lil dawk kollha li ghandhom il-lanzit ghal dawk li xi darba kienu studenti, illum saru nisa ta’ stoffa, li dak iz-zmien kellhom genituri, li ghalkemm zghar, hadu decizjonijiet tajbin ghalihom u baghtuhom fi skejjel fejn l-ewwel haga li titghallem hu li tkun responsabbli tieghek inniffsek u ta’ kull azzjoni tieghek, l-ewwel u qabel kollox, u mhux twahhal fil-gvern prezenti meta tibda tgorr zaqqek.

…and when things go wrong, as things often do in life, they blame themselves not the government or his administration.

Exactly, unless she went to the one in Marsa.

She doesn’t sound like she did. Girls educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart do not stoop to that level.

“Indeed it was, but only academically and in terms of inculcating an attitude of independence and self-reliance. I’ve noticed that most St Dorothy’s ‘girls’ are, for want of a nicer word, ball-breakers.”

Indeed, they are.

It was one of the main aims of the foundress to impart education to children based on love and truth. Today the Sisters have two Kindergarten Schools in Hamrun and Zejtun and a Primary School at Marsa. They have a children’s Home at Zurrieq and a Day Centre for children in Zejtun and Mellieha. They also take active part in teaching catechism, academic and technical subjects to the children.

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This refers to the school in Marsa.

Unfortunately that kind of thinking is part of Maltese culture.

The last time I heard the word “immankat” in Malta was on the media by the “Maltese Father Christmas”.