lysie

i couldnt sleep last night. i watched getaway and they had a bit about east timor on it....

i cried all the way through. i recognised some of the village people, because they showed the kids at the orphange i worked at, the hospital i worked at, the schools, and the teachers i met etc..

it was the best experience of my life so far, and also the most healing experience.
it was so amazing to see people who had nothing, yet they gave you everything..

for some of the village people... they had never seen white people before and they all wanted to touch us..

and they loved me because i have a small brown birthmark on my hand (which i have always hated and used to wear a watch to cover it..)
but the kids loved it and they used to rub it and say... look you have a little bit of east timor on you and you are brown just like us!

HOW SWEET IS THAT.

and some of the kids started piercing themselves with nails and pins. i guess that part of me was a bad influence!.

my best friend kira and i had lots of boys chasin us... which i will admit.. was soo good! they use to sit outside the place where we lived playing us love songs on their guitar.

we werent allowed to talk to the boys because girls are not suposed to associate unless they are married. and ecspecialy not with foreigners. so they had to meet us at the window at night in secret..

and the place we were staying at was guarded by dogs so it was very risky!.

obviously because we could not touch them.. it was kind of hard for us...

so the boys would take the glass out of the louvers in the windows....

and can i just say... right there through the louvers i had the best sexual experience of my life...

i even broke down crying...

after 'romancing' with one village boy.. Adje... he came to the window one night.. dressed in a fluro pink tank top that said 'I am genie the gymnast' (obviously from a goodwill shop) and he said 'I love you.. you be my wife' and he gave me a plastic ring that had holes in it where the little fake rhinestone diamontes had fallen out'

of course.. i said yes...
everyone thought it was ridiculous..

i was devastated when i came back home to australia and it was hard to keep in contact with him because there is no electricity in his village and only one person in the village had a mobile phone.. the same person who had attacked my best friend and i while we were over there... so when i rang, he wouldnt let me speak to Adje.....

i finaly got to speak to adje and he told me that he needed to give his government 77 buffalo (cattle) if he wanted to marry an australian woman. and he didnt have any buffalo.
so he said.. 'east timor girls are free.. but you.. my australian girlfriend.. you are too expensive'

that was 4 years ago...
and im still heartbroken...


if any one has any buffalo... hit me up!. im keen to buy!