what an amazing place! i have dorm bed on the first air-con room on this trip :) and there are some amazing people staying at the dili backpackers! there's also a shower there!! i hadn't seen one since the one and only since i started traveling - at lake toba in sumatra quite a while back now! but the shower is not what's making me the happiest... because the happiness i get from it is nothing compared with the jumping up and down today in the morning when i had pasteis de nata (portuguese custard tart!!) and a bica (expresso) down at hotel timor!! the menu also shows bacalhau com natas, arroz de marisco and other of my favourite meals :) and there is arroz doce for dessert!! yumm, what a paradise after 2 months of nasi campur and mie goreng!!!!!!
the people here are really nice :D and they are really fond of portugal! lots of people walk around with t-shirts of the portuguese team, cristiano ronaldo is a god, buses and trucks have the portuguese flag and stickers saying things like "love of portugal", "portugal in the heart" and such :) and they open up a broad smile when they hear i come from portugal! lots of people speak portuguese :) but tetun and bahasa indonesia are the most spoken languages. the portuguese in dili is simple and has a softer accent, some sort of lighter version of our sometimes harsh portuguese from portugal. everyone calls me "menina" :)
i got to the border of indonesia with east timor on a packed mikrolet (sort of minibus) with a cool driver who at some point screamed at me saying "hey rita, this is for you!", and he played a tape with bryan adam's hits!!! so i made it to east timor singing 'the summer of 69'!!!!! hahaha
today i got all i need to get a new visa for indonesia - quite a bothersome process actually! - which i should get sorted tomorrow. and i'm not sure if i'll leave dili right after that or if i'll stay around for another day... i hadn't been in a city for a long time and it's fun! there are traffic lights here!! hadn't seen those since i left singapore :)
as i head out of dili there won't be internet so i'll have to tell you all about this country on my way back xx can't wait to go explore it!!
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