Tag: expatriate
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Who tells Timor-Leste’s stories?
Felix and I were at Nari’s, the Korean restaurant, for dinner last night. We were eating dumplings on the balcony and catching up on our days, and I mentioned to him with not a small amount of pride that I’d had some good feedback on the freelance piece I’d written for the Interpreter about last…
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I forgot that it would be fun.
A confession: just over a year ago, when I was preparing to depart Australia for Timor-Leste, I let myself get very nervous, anxious, scared and worked up about my trip. I think that’s understandable: then, I was a solo 24-year-old who’d never lived overseas before preparing to uproot her life to work in a low-income…
Sophie Rai Liur 