Obrigado everyone I met, from Jorge to Anas and the boys at Dili Dirt Bike Tours/Adventures https://www.dilidirtbike.com/ to my new friend who is a teacher and awesome to chat to. There are of course more people. Esplanade Hotel turned out to be an awesome retreat and again people who were great to engage with. Cant wait to return and for all us Aussies out there, this is an island nation worth getting to. We as Aussies also need to lobby for gas supplies to return to Dili ownership. We may have helped end the genocide, but it doesnt mean we need to exploit a nation that remain poor compared to Australia.
Things got really tight for me here in Tim, East Tim to some of the Australians, Dilly, those places. I started selling things and look, I sold out one copy of my book left. Two elements of coffee where you can buy me as well, too. So, yeah, these are so good. I sold that. Okay, that’s it. I’m so sad. Wow. Wow. Wow. We’re good. We’re good. We have Mr. Billy in the back coming all the way from New South Wales. Guess what? He loves riding. [Music] Look down there. That’s the airport. Yeah. Oh, really? I know, man. Looks like it’s another world down there. [Music] It’s great. And doesn’t really look at the world actually come up really high and everyone everyone. So, most of these little businesses, they’re making things with the the trees and the roots and beautiful. It’s good. Nice family stuff. So, this is the reason why I stopped. Didn’t realize it was some stuff. I can see I can see that. Yeah. That background. So, there’s two islands. Which ones are they? [Music] I got [Music] black goat. Nah, it’s not dangerous. I know. I know it’s bashing that one, but you know, no, man. It’s all about love, man. It’s all about love. It’s like the father or something. They go strong. Like Zeus. Like Zeus. Zeus or Hercules? Which one? So So you said to me it it’s uh So we call them kati kaka in Greek. Katsi kaka. Katika. Kati kati kati kati. Katy kaka. Katy kaka. So that’s plural. Katyaki. So there’s many many goats. Many goats. Okay. Go. But in uh in Portuguese, fabrito. Fabrito. Yeah. Fabrito. Tabrito. Sounds like a football player, man. Tabrito. In in your local dialect. What was the name again? Bib. BB. Bi. BB. This is BB and the sheep. Uh BB Mallay. BB Malai. Yeah. BB Mallay is the sheep. Uh the goat. And just like just BB. Awesome. Yeah. and kati katika beautiful beautiful traditional house it’s beautiful I like normal coffee don’t worry So if you have to look if you look carefully Yeah, look, she was my girlfriend and then she just preferred gassing it up and, you know, we’re no longer together. But, you know, fond memories. Time to get the gasolina going. Oh, ACDs. [Music] Hello, little roosters. Bulldogs are going to beat you next year. They can take photo or something. No problem. It’s okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. Definitely. Good people here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know. Yeah. Definitely. This is the microlet. I don’t know. Awesome. And then that one is more of a bus which I want to definitely go have a look at. This is from from Tastor. You know the this place we we stop in Tastor. Yeah. This is go to Tastor. It’s brilliant. Love it. Love it. Love it. Bloody nice. That’s so cool. Just exploring the market. Rafa and this guy’s on the way. The reason he doesn’t wear the full gears today because he only rides scooters and it’s an easy ride. But Rafa is up. It’s beautiful. That’s good. Nicollet. Nicollet is a Greek words. This is manala. Manala. Now Andre Andre. And here we have beetlenut. For those of you who don’t know bit, this is a leaf of the beetlenut. This is the the nut and this is the lime powder. Why I want to show you this? This is typical traditional that belongs to Timo. Every traditional celebrations we have lum the bitter nut. Awesome. And you might see not in here and a couple of people have a red leaves. Because they consume the bitter nut. I I saw it in Papa Guini. Yes. And people say bitter nut is good for your teeth here. Hey, it’s the opposite what the doctor says. But people doing it, it makes you a bit high, makes you hard worker. So that’s why it’s good for te. So enjoy the bit. I don’t know if I will, but hopefully I was. Hello buddy. How are you? Good. Hello. Leo. This is Leo. Leo. He lives in a village called At. Oh, nice. But people like Leo and these girls, they come out here for fun, entertainment. It’s free entertainment. I I come from a village as well. Good. Last question if I could. Yes. If you can ask them how long they’ve been here in this market. How many years? [Music] She came here in 2016 and she’s still here. Thank you. I’m looking forward to some of these things. I’m kidding. I told her, “You made it to so you need to buy this for the in-laws.” Yes. Awesome stuff. I told him your wife is from Atab very expensive instead. We have to pay dary to get the woman. Oh. Okay. When are we going? When are we going? Let’s make it happen. You have to bring the bitter nut first to make the negotiation. I will buy as many as possible. [Music] This is actually a good road. Oh man, this is We actually crossed there was a river down there. It’s interesting. Um, we started this morning with a guy who walked into office and it’s like, “Hey, I want to book a day trip.” I was like, “Yeah, it cost you about 175 bucks.” And he’s like, “Yeah, Roger, let’s go.” And we got all the bikes ready. And then he’s like, “No, that’s not the bike I want to ride. I want to ride a scooter.” So, we ended up actually for the first time doing our our day trip with a scooter. It’s fun. You get it all the way. So, for those of you who out there and thinking that, oh, I can’t do the dirt biking. We got the full crew to support you, 175 bucks. We’ll take you out here with a scooter. How good is that? Come and ride. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Music] Gentlemen, where are we? Where are you leaving me? Ah, this is the one. But this is one of the remote area. You like when you said there’s going to be Wi-Fi. Well, there’s no Wi-Fi. Pretend like you in 1999. There’s no Wi-Fi in town, right? Have your cameras around. We probably 30 minutes away. Not even 30. 20 minutes away from the main road. And look, there’s Wait, wait. It just took us 4 hours to get through there. If you do it to the school. Oh yeah. So So met me that means that means day in my language. Ah see Greek Greek version or UB 40 version. A full profession. Look at that. He’s tuning it up, man. Not just the motorbike rider, man. No, no, no, no. The master. Well, we can even do lab bomba. Wise men say [Music] only fools rush in but I can’t help falling in love with you. That’s so nice. But I can’t falling in love. We do. That’s Yeah. [Music] I don’t want to talk about this. How you know when [Music] I say the reason [Music] my heart yeah this [Music] [Music] What? So, what did you call this animal? Barbie. Wow. I’ve never seen anything like it. Barbie. And this is not dinner for tomorrow. No, no, no. This is just a pet. So, we’ve come so Grego has come to a Turkish tortilla. Yeah. Restaurant in Di. Yes. And I’m having great food. Okay. Please say hi to me. No. All right. All right. So, I’m I’m very honored to be able to meet with you again. You’re a teacher and you’re telling me that your class has between 40 sometimes to 50 students. So, I I envy you and I appreciate that you’re my friend and thank you for coming. Um, so I want you to tell me a couple of things. So first thing a normal person in Timor le how many languages will they speak? Okay. Uh in uh we have uh three four language speak but another language local language we have Portuguese, Tun uh English and Mandarin and we have another local uh language 55 3 5 3 5 3 5 3 5 3 5 3 5 3 5 3 5 3 5 3 5 6 That’s amazing. Yeah, I I’m I’m very very very impressed. As I said to you earlier, most in most English-speaking Western countries, unless you’re like Latina or um you know, or Greek Australian, most people only speak one language. So, very I’m very proud, very proud, very proud of all of you. I have my language. Talk a little bit about your about the history. So, yeah. And you said to me um stuff that you know I I’ve studied as well, but the the different occupations. So 500 years of Portugal um the other t-mor occupied by the Dutch Holland uh Indonesia which was a very brutal very sad story long story and the Portuguese and the Japanese and the Poland occupation uh for Indonesia to 24 hours. I’m I’m personally very sorry about the occupations and I’m very very very sad cuz you lived in the Indonesian occupation. So I’m very very very sorry. Very sad. Very sad. Guess I lost my family in the Yeah. I I I’m Yeah. I have no words and what you said to me yesterday very sad. Yeah. So I appreciate you can talk. Thank you. And I hope everything gets I hope like Greece u and Cyprus things get better. Um, tell me tell me what you want in your language or in Portuguese or both. I’m I’m very happy to listen. Okay. Uh, I’m intimate. Uh, we have uh uh most famous uh president. Uh we have a local language by uh me have local linguist another Mumbai makasai uh tuner [Music] please. Okay. Uh but tell me in Gal in Gal. What? So this was that was tell me if you can this is the language of both your parents. Yeah. Wow. Okay. And my parents in di speaking. Wow. Wow. We stay in di but speaking. Where where are they from? From Dill. How far away are they originally? Where are you from originally? My origin is Manatuk. was [Music] but I live in Di. Is that Is that Is that in the mountain? Yes, in the mountain. Did I go there yesterday? Yeah. Yeah. Wow, that’s awesome. Oh, yes, I did. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. The boys took me there yesterday. That’s awesome. Like the Yeah. Yeah. Which is a Greek word Greek word. One district one district one district. I had a beautiful time. 30 uh 30 district uh in the district we have language local. You have all those districts but you only have a population have language local have language local. Wow. Wow. That’s so language local and cool. That’s amazing. So proper in 2002, but maybe 300,000 people. Yeah. Oh, okay. Oh, no. Uh uh uh were killed in the the war. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Again, I am very very very very sorry. So you guys should never have been through that. Yeah. Um Okay. I I really I I really appreciate I appreciate what you do. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. If you want to say anything else, please do. Okay, that’s finished. Thank you very much.