Tag: home
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How it feels returning home to Dili
This time last year, I had just returned to Melbourne, where I was living, from a Christmas trip across Australia to Perth, where I’m from. I thought I’d be excited to be back in my own little space: to ride my bicycle up Wellington Street and chatter with red wines at book club and work…
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More things that feel like home
Running into students from my English class on the streets of Farol Finally mastering driving through Audian’s confusing one-way roads The call to prayer at the mosque as we exercise at the school on Monday evenings Letefoho baristas recommending me at-home coffee based on what I order in the shop Dili’s crocodile skyline The till…
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Things that feel like home
Learning that the Tetun word for mandarin is just tangerina Finally bartering taxis below $2 Knowing where the cereal and apples are in Centro Supermerkado Wembley op shop shirts for Dili heat “Mana Tetun mos!“ The staff at Letefoho Coffee no longer offering the sugar bowl when they deliver my coffee (upstairs, of course) Xefi teasing…
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FOMO for Fitzroy
Scrolling through old phone photos in a never-ending quest to free up my iPhone storage space, I ran into a trove of pictures I’d taken in my last few weeks living in Melbourne. Buried behind rows of Dili sunsets and sweat-streaked selfies sit neat shots of my Victorian terrace house; croissants captured halfway through a…
Sophie Rai Liur 