I'm going to Baucau and Viqueque over the weekend. I leave tomorrow and will return on Sunday. I'm relieved to be getting out of Dili again. It's always refreshing to escape the little city and see a bit of the countryside. Hopefully I will have some interesting tales to tell on Monday.

This is a song that should brighten your day. It's by a Tucson band called Calexico.

The Dili carnival happened on Saturday. Several hundred people showed up despite the rain. Everything was going smoothly until an incident involving a Brazilian national and the Guarda Nacional Republicana of Portugal. I will have more on that later. For now, enjoy the good stuff.

I have another story up on the IRIN news website. It's called Women get WISE to self-employment. Although it's only a short story, writing it involved a lot of interviews in Baucau. I had great fun compiling the story and seeing something that is having a positive impact on people's lives.

As I mentioned yesterday, I’ve stopped smoking. You can’t imagine how hard this is in a country like Timor where everyone smokes. I’ve taken to chewing toothpicks after seeing such a tactic work for a buddy of mine whom I used to work with. I’m now four days into this and the dreams about smoking have started. I’ve also started …

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