Timor Leste

I have been in Timor-Leste for 5 weeks at this point. A month and one week. In that time I have taken rigorous classes in language, and the ideals of the peace corps. I currently am marked at the halfway point of training. In just a little over a month I have become conversational in…

Dili One of the Peace Corps staff once equated the word ‘Malai’ to be equivalent to ‘Beyoncé’ and I find the comparison the most accurate there is. If you saw Beyoncé walking down the street in full performance (western) costume you would run into your house to tell your friends to come outside to see…