Tag: Work
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In the districts, #1
Several long-term Dili expats advised me when I first arrived here to go to the districts as much as I could. “Dili isn’t real Timor,” they explained, indicating, dismissively, the traffic-choked streets and air-conditioned Western restaurants and the gin tonics at Skybar on dusky Fridays. “And,” – knowingly – “you’ll go crazy otherwise.” From that […]
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Careering
I’m sitting in a linen-covered chair in the conference room of Timor’s fanciest hotel, listening to an American accent in a suit explain to me and 50 members of Dili’s agricultural industry the considerations required in shaping pesticide law, thinking, “how on earth did I get here?” (Not literally: my boss picked me up from home […]
Sophie Rai Liur 