Wet season is here
We have a list of schools on the “desperate list”, but can’t get to any of them for a look now that the wet season is here and the roads
Ostico School, Baucau District
Completed 2009 – US$80,000 New 2 Classroom Building, Refurbishment of 3 Classroom Building, Insulation and Ventilation of 2 Classroom Building, Renovation of Toilets and Connection of Water Supply
Leaving Timor
Timorese legend has it that if you drink the milk of a coconut in Timor you will come back. I didn’t drink any coconut milk, but I will be back.
Zoe… Asha…. Leah….
Bruce, Simon and I went back to Ostico School today. The children weren’t in school (I think an unofficial holiday had been declared to clean up after the previous days’
The official opening!
I had no real idea what to expect of the school opening. But it was an incredible day. Stephen and I travelled to Ostico with Kirsty – it was wonderful
A day in Dili
Simon took me up to Dare today – a little hamlet in the mountains behind Dili. It’s not far in distance, but took us about half an hour by car,
We are in Dili
Stephen and I are here. After over a year of thinking about East Timor, we’ve finally arrived. It was a glorious flight from Darwin, with the sun just coming up
Soccer balls and books on the luggage carousel
As a mother who has spent a lot of time on planes with small children, I have endured many humiliations. Today was a new addition to the long list however.
The school is finished!
Well Ostico School is finished and from all reports is better than we could have hoped for! It was looking this week like the Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmao, would be
Books for the school
I sent out an email a couple of days ago to my friends asking if anyone had books or soccer balls I could take to East Timor with me. It