My ten favourite things about living in Dili, at the end of my fifth month here:

1. My first Australian visitor
2. A group-chat-official gang of friends
3. A new favourite coffee shop
4. Swallowing my pride
5. Coming home to Dili
6. Abandoning yoga for sunset beers and chips
7. Dry season colours
8. Recommitting to boot camp
9. Taking a different route
10. I can’t do this but I’m doing it anyway

My ten least favourite things about living in Dili, at the end of my fifth month here:

1. A tragic car accident and the world feeling less safe
2. Feeling uncomfortable with close people
3. Jealousy
4. Hot days
5. Homesickness
6. A flat tyre and too-hard to-dos
7. Forgetting to enjoy it
8. Abandoning boot camp
9. Losing Tetun words
10. Avoiding big questions