Tag: tourist
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To be a tourist in Dili
A short guide to being a tourist for two days in Dili, Timor-Leste. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been lucky to have both my mother and my sister visit me here in Timor-Leste. Neither could stay for very long, which in one sense was a very good thing: like the way I…
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What surprised me about Dili
In a few months’ time, as I head into the introspective slump apparently inevitable for volunteers here, I could forget everything I found quirky, exciting and energising about my first few weeks in Dili. So, to safeguard – and to gently remind myself, in one or two or three years’ time, when I’m reflecting on…
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A weekend in between
Between our arrival in Dili on Thursday, and beginning our language classes on Monday, we have nearly four days of time that, with the exception of a few short orientation activities, is completely our own. It’s unnerving for me having free time in a new place, particularly when I don’t really know what’s available to…
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24 hours in Timor
I touched down in Dili just before 7am yesterday – my early morning Air North flight the third and final in the journey that has taken me from inner-city Melbourne life to my new gig living and working as an Australian volunteer in Timor-Leste’s capital. While certain things about those two situations are similar –…
Sophie Rai Liur 