Tag: Work
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What’s your job?
A couple of days ago, I asked on Instagram what kind of posts people would like to see on this blog. “I’ll have a lot of time to write in transit as I return to Perth for Christmas,” I explained in an Instagram Story. “What would you like to know more about?” A lot of…
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Lunch in Lecidere
Most lunchtimes I walk the 10ish minutes from my office in Audian to the suburb Lecidere, which sits just back from the beach road. It’s a busier suburb than Audian, with more cafes and lunch options, and if I don’t make lunch plans with a friend I’ll often run into one anyway. Today I walked…
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I’ve totally got it this time
Two scenes. On Monday. My boss enters my office to let me know the English classes I had been teaching at the Universidade de Paz every Friday will resume from this week. They’ll happen every Wednesday at 12pm. To be honest, I didn’t love the classes when I was teaching them before — I’m not…
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Back in
Back in the office after five days off, with a smile on my face because of: A thoughtful first-thing email from an old friend A big piece of work sent off, finally Stomach butterflies for a lunch meeting I know is important Sneakers in my bag for boxing post-work Dili sunshine and a $2 taxi…
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How I deal when I don’t know what comes next
Late on Friday afternoon, I received an email from a colleague in our admin team, informing everyone about a staff meeting to be held at 9:30am on Monday morning. I asked my boss if I could spend a few minutes of it speaking briefly about my work; he said yes, and I sat for several…
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Some things that help
A couple of weeks ago, I published a post called “The Six-Month Slump,” in which I wrote about the apathy and melancholy I was feeling five-and-a-half months into my time here in Timor. I wrote it the day after I’d lost my bank card to an ATM, stumped home in a sulk with a bottle…
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A perfectionist’s guide to working in Timor
Last week, I sent a sheepish email to the old boss I used to freely accuse of micro-managing me. “I need some help,” I typed. “I’ve never had this much free rein in a job before, and I don’t know what to do. I’m feeling directionless and I need you to help me make some…
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The six-month slump
I’m about a week shy of six months of living in Timor-Leste, but I’m delighted to share I’ve continued my childhood tradition of being a total overachiever and have hit the dreaded expat six-month slump about a month ahead of schedule. I was warned about this before I left Australia, and have since had friends…
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Photo essay: Behau field trip
Last week, RAEBIA hosted a group of participants at our resource centre in Behau, Manatuto, for a field trip that was part of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation’s climate change conference. UNFAO showed conference delegates examples of work that local communities are doing to fight the effects of climate change – at RAEBIA’s…
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Everyday life in Dili
Whenever someone I know goes away, this bad habit I have of romanticising whatever it is I think they’re doing kicks in like clockwork. Whether it’s a mate backpacking Sri Lanka or an old colleague holed up in a Singaporean skyscraper, I immediately – and jealously – decide that they’re yammering fluently in an exotic-sounding language…
Sophie Rai Liur 