lastdaysfirstdays.wordpress.com
Lisa | Last Days, First Days
https://lastdaysfirstdays.wordpress.com/author/jtrainer
Last Days, First Days. Leaving Dubai, coming to Dili. You are currently browsing Lisa’s articles. Last of the first days. March 26, 2007 in Dubai. I think that all blogs have a natural life-span. This blog’s life is over. I designed it to be about the last days I spent in Dubai, and the first days in Dili. After seven weeks in Timor, I think my “first days” are finished. There are dozens of stories I didn’t write here, and that makes me sad. This site is NOT censored. March 25, 2007 in Dubai. Although we...
lastdaysfirstdays.wordpress.com
About Last Days | Last Days, First Days
https://lastdaysfirstdays.wordpress.com/about
Last Days, First Days. Leaving Dubai, coming to Dili. I started this page as a way to capture my final days in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and my first days in a new place, Dili, Timor-Leste (East Timor). Liz Drachman on Last of the first days. Elsa on Last of the first days. Virginia on Last of the first days. On Last of the first days. On This site is NOT censored. An Emirati’s Thoughts. Read All About It. Return to Rai Ketak. Comments feed for this article. January 31, 2007 at 5:29 pm. Tom and Lisa,.
lastdaysfirstdays.wordpress.com
How the day goes | Last Days, First Days
https://lastdaysfirstdays.wordpress.com/2007/03/06/how-the-day-goes
Last Days, First Days. Leaving Dubai, coming to Dili. How the day goes. March 6, 2007 in Timor. It’s hard to say when this day actually began. I guess it was at 1:10 am, when I woke up, and Tom was awake, and my Bose headphones were still on my head but switched off so that the noise-canceling was not operating. So I could hear the generator quite plainly. But it’s just who I am. It’s my biochemistry, my blessing and my curse, to feel things so acutely. It’s the same physiology that makes me pron...Peopl...
lastdaysfirstdays.wordpress.com
Bloodlines | Last Days, First Days
https://lastdaysfirstdays.wordpress.com/2007/03/07/bloodlines
Last Days, First Days. Leaving Dubai, coming to Dili. March 7, 2007 in Timor. 9:35 am: There is a live chicken in my kitchen. Regina has bought it, at our request, and will butcher it and bring the pieces to us. I didn’t think she’d bring it to me before then, though so now I have the distressing thought of having to eat an animal tomorrow which is clucking softly in a box in my kitchen today. I get attached easily. Whenever a gecko flits into the house, I immediately greet it: Hi gecko! Somehow I figure...
lastdaysfirstdays.wordpress.com
Estadu de Sitio | Last Days, First Days
https://lastdaysfirstdays.wordpress.com/2007/03/06/estadu-de-sitio
Last Days, First Days. Leaving Dubai, coming to Dili. March 6, 2007 in Timor. Lest you think that I’m oblivious to what is going on in. East Timor, with all my pretty photos and prose, here’s a personal update.). We all think the Australian evacuation is a terrible overreaction, especially with several thousand police and soldiers bolstering the security from now to elections April 9. In Afghanistan, when the rocket attacks increased and the random grenades started, we tightened security and kept wor...
lastdaysfirstdays.wordpress.com
Where | Last Days, First Days
https://lastdaysfirstdays.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/where
Last Days, First Days. Leaving Dubai, coming to Dili. February 20, 2007 in Timor. I can’t believe I live in a country where:. Ash Wednesday is a public holiday. Dogs sleep for hours in the middle of the street. It’s perfectly acceptable to say to a woman in a job interview, “We heard that you’re pregnant. Are you? How far along are you? Will you work up until you deliver? Liz Drachman on Last of the first days. Elsa on Last of the first days. Virginia on Last of the first days. On Last of the first days.
lastdaysfirstdays.wordpress.com
This site is NOT censored | Last Days, First Days
https://lastdaysfirstdays.wordpress.com/2007/03/25/this-site-is-censored
Last Days, First Days. Leaving Dubai, coming to Dili. This site is NOT censored. March 25, 2007 in Dubai. Many apologies and much embarassment here…. It appears it was the local server blocking me (though I have yet to understand why…). Have removed the post in order to minimize damage from unfair lashing at TT. Not that they don’t deserve it for other reasons! Thanks to readers in Timor for pointing me in the right direction. Liz Drachman on Last of the first days. Elsa on Last of the first days. LaR...
lastdaysfirstdays.wordpress.com
Last of the first days | Last Days, First Days
https://lastdaysfirstdays.wordpress.com/2007/03/26/last-of-the-first-days
Last Days, First Days. Leaving Dubai, coming to Dili. Last of the first days. March 26, 2007 in Dubai. I think that all blogs have a natural life-span. This blog’s life is over. I designed it to be about the last days I spent in Dubai, and the first days in Dili. After seven weeks in Timor, I think my “first days” are finished. There are dozens of stories I didn’t write here, and that makes me sad. I’ve enjoyed blogging. Maybe I’ll start another one someday. Liz Drachman on Last of the first days. Hello ...
lastdaysfirstdays.wordpress.com
Foreigner price | Last Days, First Days
https://lastdaysfirstdays.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/foreigner-price
Last Days, First Days. Leaving Dubai, coming to Dili. February 20, 2007 in Timor. The currency in East Timor is the US dollar. That’s what you pay with at stores, and that’s what you get out of the cash machine. This despite the fact that there’s no strong American presence (they even still like us here), and there’s no significant American economic interests (the government owns the oil development in consortium with Australians). Meanwhile, an excellent salary. Working for a nongovermental foreign orga...
