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Quick update

 New Things encountered in the last 2 months since my last proper update:

- A deep-end introduction to Human Resource Management

- Intense meetings in Tetun (I can follow and contribute but it is like holding a crunch for a long time)

- A really interesting consultative workshop on Aimoruk Tradisional (Traditional Medicine)

- Realisation (this surprised only Lois) that I avoid conflict and tend towards people-pleasing (All my close friends: Erm... I could have told you that.)

- Hence, decision to practice more assertiveness and nurture more indifference to dislike, anger, sarcasm or resentment.

- Completed and handed over the text content (non-exhaustive and imperfect as it is) of the Village Worker manual (Aiming for publication in May this year!)

- Attended a medical conference online (generously sponsored by A) and was very surprised at the talk that most moved our Clinician Educators by the end of the conference.

- Had my first-in-Timor encounter with (most likely) a conman

- Learned how to ride a scooter (in a walled compound)

- Saw winds so strong as to blow zinc sheets over walls.

For details, let me know which story you'd like to hear about.

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