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The shortest way home
An instruction not to cut corners; to spend time to do something carefully and properly, and to find that to be the most effective pathway.
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My post-Timor planu
Most people I know here in Timor-Leste know three key geographical facts about my life: 1) that I’m from Perth; 2) that I lived in Melbourne before I came here; and 3) that Felix, my boyfriend, is currently studying in Melbourne. So it’s understandable that in most conversations about my departure, people are asking whether…
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What’s Dili weather like?
I grew up in temperate Perth, where we have four strict seasons and a near-total lack of humidity. For that reason, Timor-Leste’s muggy humidity has repeatedly surprised and totally confused me. As I head into my last week of living here, I’m thinking more than ever about the girl I was this time two years…
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New, new Dili favourites
At the beginning of this year I made a list of my new favourite places to eat and drink in Dili, a year on from my first round-up list. A hilarious and frank friend told me of that later list, “I thought you were going to say some new places, but they were they same…
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March thoughts
Inside a tumble dryer this month turned me inside out upside down flip flop round and round. Big long stretches of deliberate, generous quiet; mad long days and giddy shrill nights; endless working days and the few first how are you feeling about leavings building slowly slowly quivering piccolo notes and louder now, crescendo crush, heading…
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One day it’ll all be funny
Start your story with the words ‘loron ida’, one day. One day, loron ida, about a year ago, I was sweaty and mortified in the secondhand clothes shacks on one one of my first, over-confident OB shopping trips. I’d just tried to barter a $5 price down with what I thought was the Indonesian word for four,…
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Visible, vulnerable, vivacious: do I feel safe in Timor-Leste?
Do I feel safe in Timor-Leste? It’s a question I’ve been asked a few times, and a topic I haven’t addressed directly on this blog. After work at my regular office job today I had to finish some transcribing for an article, and I decided I’d walk up to Kaffe Uut from home to…
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Three quick pieces of advice
I received a lot of advice before I moved to Timor-Leste — advice that covered everything from what medicines to bring over, to where to do my language lessons, to how to deal with creepy bosses, to how keep busy when bored. Over the last two years, I’ve turned over, considered, accepted and disregarded these…
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Sophie Rai Liur 