A: AND YOU HAD TO MAKE A NEW ACCOUNT EVERY TIME FOR EVERY DIFFERENT UNIVERSITY AND IT WAS HORRIBLE BECAUSE I WAS THE ONE DOING ALL THIS AND THE OTHERS WERE JUST YOU KNOW LOOKING WITH ME SHARING THE SCREEN AND I WAS GOING INSANE BECAUSE YOU KNOW THEY ASKED ASKED FOR YOUR UM FOR YOUR DEGREE IF YOU HAD ANY OTHER DEGREE IF YOU HAD YOUR UH GRADUATION AND ALL THAT IT WAS HORRIBLE AND ALL OF THAT FOR TWO HOURS STRAIGHT JUST TO SEE THAT ALL THE APPLICATIONS ENDED ON AT AT MAY IN MAY FIFTEEN WHEN WE STILL HAD ACCENTS FROM OUR UNIVERSITY AND WE WAS HORRIBLE BECAUSE YOU THERE WERE A LOT OF PRE REQUIREMENTS AND HUH AND ALL OF THAT AND NOW AND I'M STILL WAY MORE EXHAUSTED THAN I THOUGHT I WOULD BE AND WAY MORE DEMOTIVATED I'M I DON'T HAVE ANY MOTIVATION TO DO ANYTHING RIGHT NOW YES AND THE ONLY UNIVERSITY THAT ARE STILL OPEN ARE IN MAL AT MALTA AND IN BELGIUM TWO UNIVERSITIES THREE ACTUALLY THREE BUT I STILL DON'T AND IN THEIR SITES THERE IS STILL NO INDICATION ON WHICH FORMS AND ANDOR DOCUMENTS YOU HAVE TO TO GIVE THEM TO APPLY SO THERE'S WRITTEN LIKE APPLICATION UH APPLICATION DEADLINES ENDS ON THE THIRTY FIRST OF AUGUST BUT THERE'S STILL NO INDICATION OF WHAT YOU HAVE TO ACTUALLY PRESENT TO UH TO TO GIVE THEM AS DOCUMENTS THEY ABSOLUTELY

B: HAVE YOU TRIED

A: MM HMM WHAT

B: HAVE YOU THOUGHT OF CALLING THEM LIKE LIKE UM CALLING THEM REACHING THEM WRITING AN EMAIL FOR EXAMPLE I CAN SEE THAT THAT LINE WHY THERE IS NOT INDICATION ABOUT WHAT I HAVE TO GIVE YOU WHAT DO YOU WANT JUST WRITE TO THEM I THINK THEY ARE WAY MORE EFFICIENT THAN HERE THEY WILL ANSWER OUR QUESTIONS

A: YES I WELL I WILL CERTAINLY I THINK ME AND THE AND OUR COLLEAGUES WILL MEET TOMORROW I GUESS I DON'T KNOW

B: ONLINE AGAIN

A: I'M TAKING A WILD GUESS YES ONLINE AGAIN AND WE WILL SEE WHAT WHAT TO DO UH WHAT TO WHAT TO SEE MORE BUT UM I THINK ALL OF US ARE REALLY YOU KNOW UNDER THE WEATHER AFTER SEEING THAT ALL OF THE THINGS THAT WE WANTED TO DO

B: YEAH

A: ARE NOT OPEN LIKE I FEEL LIKE I'VE LOST A RACE EVEN EVEN BEFORE PARTICIPATING LIKE I I'VE I HAVEN'T EVEN PARTICIPATED IN A RACE AND I'M AND I'VE STILL LOST

B: MM HMM

A: AND IT'S HORRIBLE

B: YEAH EVERYTHING RELATED TO WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DO IS HORRIBLE I THINK THERE ARE NO OPPORTUNITIES AND IF THEY ARE I IF THERE ARE THERE ARE VERY STRICT UM YOU KNOW SCHEDULES AND VERY STRICT YOU KNOW REQUIREMENTS THAT YOU MUST HAVE

A: I GET IT MM HMM

B: AND THEY'RE JUST IMPOSSIBLE AND ONLY FEW PEOPLE CAN JUST HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TRAIN WELL AND TO STUDY THAT

A: WOW I I DON'T KNOW UH ACTUALLY I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH TIME BEFORE YOUR ACADEMIC HERE ENDS YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT ALL OF THAT

B: I JUST HAVE NO TIME TO DO IT TO DO TO TO THINK ABOUT ALL OF THOSE THINGS BEFORE IT ENDS ACTUALLY SO WHEN IT ENDS

A: YES BECAUSE WE HAVE TO SO MUCH WORK TO DO STILL

B: YES WHEN IT ENDS WE JUST HAVE TO GO WITH THE FLOW AND WAIT FOR FOR ANYTHING TO BE CLEAR I DON'T KNOW HOW

A: YOU THINK IT'S THEY I THINK UM EVERYTHING WILL CLEAR UP I HOPE SO

B: WE HOPE

A: OKAY

B: IGNORE_TIME_SEGMENT_IN_SCORING

A: OKAY SO THAT'S ME

B: YEAH YEAH

A: UH SO

B: IT'S YOU

A: IGNORE_TIME_SEGMENT_IN_SCORING

B: GREAT GREAT OKAY UH I LIKE YOUR ACCENT YOU HAVE A UH A BRITISH ACCENT

A: REALLY ACTUALLY I THINK MY ACCENT CHANGED A LOT THROUGHOUT THE YEARS BECAUSE AT FIRST I WAS STUDYING IN ENGLISH IN THE UNIVERSITY AND SO I FELT THAT WAS MY BEST MOMENT IN IN <LAUGH> ENGLISH AND THEN WHEN I WENT BACK TO LIVING UH UH HOME YOU KNOW I'M SURROUNDED BY NATIVE SPEAKERS OF MY OWN LANGUAGE AND SO I I FEEL LIKE MY ENG MY ENGLISH ACTUALLY HAS WORSENED A LOT SO <LAUGH> THANK YOU

B: <LAUGH>

A: UM YEAH YOU KNOW BUT I STILL TRY TO WATCH LOT OF MOVIES IN ALL THE LANGUAGES I SPEAK SO THAT I TRY TO KEEP IT UP YOU KNOW BECAUSE I'M ALWAYS WORRIED YOU KNOW THAT I KNOW IT IT'S SO EASY I THINK TO FORGET A LANGUAGE AND SO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO TRY TO KEEP IT GOING ON SOMEHOW SO I JUST WATCH A LOT OF NETFLIX I GUESS <LAUGH>

B: YEAH A AND DO YOU DO YOU SPEAKS WITH MM OTHER PEOPLE IN ENGLISH

A: NO NOT AT ALL LIKE NOT AT ALL IT'S JUST YOU KNOW SOMETIMES I TEXT MY FRIENDS LIKE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS FROM THE UNI OR WHATEVER AND SO THAT THAT IS THE ONLY TIME I GET TO SPEAK ENGLISH OR MAYBE WHEN I'M TRAVELING BUT THAT'S NOT VERY OFTEN NOWADAYS UM SO YEAH BUT I YEAH THIS IS WHY UH I'M NOT PRACTICING AS MUCH AS I WOULD LIKE TO AND SO JUST PERSEVERING SO THERE'S THAT

B: I SEE

A: UM

B: A AND WH DIDN'T YOU YOU SAID YOU YOU WENT TO MALTA UH

A: YES YES

B: FOR HOLIDAYS

A: YES

B: WHEN WHEN WAS IT LAST LAST MONTH

A: I THINK SO I THINK IT WAS LAST MONTH IT WAS IN YEAH IT WAS IN MAY NOW IT'S IN JUNE SO LIKE YEAH ROUGHLY LAST MONTH BUT IT WAS LOVELY AND THERE PEOPLE SPOKE PERFECT ENGLISH LIKE AND EVEN THOUGH THAT THAT'S NOT THEIR FIRST LANGUAGE I THINK THEIR FIRST LANGUAGE IS MA MALTESE LIKE IT'S A WEIRD COMBINATION OF ARAB AND AND LIKE AND ITALIAN AND AND SPANISH SO THAT'S A WEIRD LANGUAGE BUT THEY THEY DO SPEAK VERY NICE ENGLISH SO IT WAS VERY NICE HAVE YOU GONE ON HOLIDAY ANYWHERE RECENTLY

B: UH NO <LAUGH> NOT RECENTLY

A: <LAUGH>

B: I THINK THE LAST

A: YEAH

B: TIME I WENT I WENT ON HOLIDAY WAS IN TWO THOUSAND NINETEEN

A: NO

B: WELL I I I WENT I WENT TO I WENT TO THE BEACH IN TWO THOUSAND TWENTY BUT IT'S JUST FOR A DAY AND YOU KNOW I HAVEN'T I HAVEN'T BEEN ON HOLIDAY UH SO WHEN WHEN YOU

A: THAT'S BAD WE CAN GO SOMEWHERE TOGETHER

B: YEAH WE WE WE CAN ARRANGE IT UM WHEN YOU WHEN YOU WENT TO MALTA DID THEY ASK YOU FOR A VACCINATION PASSPORT OR OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT

A: MM MM I THINK LIKE ONE MONTH AGO IT WAS YES YOU HAD TO MM YOU HAD NOT YOU HAVE TO COMPILE LIKE A FILE WHICH IS I DON'T REMEMBER THE NAME BUT IT'S A THING THAT YOU HAVE TO DO EVERY TIME YOU TRAVEL ANYWHERE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION STATING LIKE WHAT IS THE STATE THE THE STATE OF YOUR VACCINATION AND AND SAYING HOW IT WORK <BREATH> LIKE WHERE ARE YOU GOING BASICALLY SO JUST TO TRACK YOU DOWN WHICH IS NOT SUPER NICE IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT BUT ANYWAY UM

B: <COUGH>

A: AND THEN AND THEN TO GO ON THE PLANE ACTUALLY YOU HAD TO BE VACCINATED BUT THAT'S NOT A THING ANYMORE I'M NOT SURE NOW I'M PRETTY SURE YOU DON'T HAVE TO WEAR A MASK ON THE PLANE ANYMORE SO THERE'S THAT BUT I'M NOT SURE WHAT'S LIKE THE IF YOU HAVE TO BE VACCINATED TO FLY OR SOMETHING I HAVE NO IDEA OF ANYTHING ANYMORE

B: SO IT IS THIS FORM THAT YOU HAVE TO TO FILL IN IS IT UH IS IT AN ONLINE FORM

A: YEAH IT'S AN ONLINE FORM IT'S IT'S FROM THE WEBSITE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND IT'S CALLED SOMETHING LIKE A PASSENGER YEAH PASSENGER LOCATION FORM THAT'S THE NAME AND LIKE I IF YOU'RE GOING ANYWHERE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION YOU JUST MAY FILL THIS THING UP AND AND THAT'S JUST FOR THE EUROPEAN UNION TO KNOW LIKE WHERE YOU ARE AND WHAT'S YOUR VACCINATION STAT STATUS I THINK I THINK I'M NOT SURE

B: OKAY BUT UM DO YOU DID THEY DON'T ASK YOU THEY DON'T ASK YOU TO UH A PROOF OF OF THIS FORM WHEN YOU BOARD THE PLANE OR WHEN YOU HAVE TO BUY THE TICKET

A: NO THEY DON'T ASK

B: THEY ARE TWO SEPARATE THINGS

A: THERE ARE TWO YOU HAVE TO DO THIS THING UH I DON'T KNOW WHY THEY TELL YOU LIKE IF YOU GO ON ON THE WEBSITE OF THE PLANE OF THE PLANE COMPANY THEY TELL YOU PLEASE FILL THIS FORM AT THIS LINK TA DA DA BUT NO ONE CHECK THIS BUT EVEN IN THE WORST PERIOD OF COVID UH LIKE YOU HAD TO FILL SO MANY FORMS BUT NO ONE CHECKED ANYTHING I REMEMBER SO WHEN COVID HIT I I I WAS LIVING ABROAD AND I HAD TO GO BACK HOME AND A AND I HAD TO FILL WHEN WHEN I TOOK THE PLANE TO GO HOME I HAD TO FILL SO MANY FORMS SO MANY LIKE I HAD SO MUCH PAPERWORK AND NO ONE CHECKED ANYTHING AT ALL NOTHING AND IT IS JUST LIKE AND AND I REMEMBER LIKE HERE IN THE WORST TIME OF COVID EVERY TI EVERY TIME WE WENT OUT YOU HAD TO GO OUT WITH THE PAPER STATING THE THE REASON WHY YOU WERE GOING OUT BUT IT NEVER HAPPENED TO ME A SINGLE TIME TO BE CHECKED ON THOSE PAPERS JUST PAPER WASTE IF YOU ASK ME

B: <LAUGH>

A: BUT ANYWAY

B: YEAH UM SO WHE WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO UH NEXT IN VACATION ON VACATION