Timor Leste 2024 Trip B Blog

We started the day with an amazing breakfast of omelette and rolls. On our way to the school, we were trying to understand our choreography for our dance and song that we have to preform in front of the school this morning. In the end the decision was made that we shouldn’t since the students had exams during that time, instead we walked up to a statue in Letefoto called Cristo Rei Letefoho. The stair case resembled a snake to represent sin, it was also the statues 22nd birthday on the 18th of July 2002.

Next we drove to a church in Letefoho and had a quick look inside. We ended up going to the school in the end and they showed us around their school which proved to be very different to schools in Australia. After our tour they had prepared a song for us which was outstanding. After the song and speech by Mrs Fisher, we had the opportunity to converse with students and teachers.

Afterwards, we headed back to the Bakhita Centre. Back at the Bakhita Centre some of us decided to rest after we ate our delicious lunch. The people who didn’t went down to a group of local kids to do some activities. At around 5:30pm, we went to look at a church funded by Tenison Woods College and Eddie. Afterwards, a small amount of us headed towards a cross that is on a hill nearby we where we followed by some local kids. We had a delicious dinner of chicken, chips, salad and pasta. To end the day after dinner, the hosts of Bakhita Centre held a traditional ceremony of giving us a tai and Timorese coffee inside of a traditional bag.