10 November 2008
Our last week all together in Bali and I realise I still have not told you any thing else about the other member of our group.
Sam is a great guy who is very generous and would do anything for you - as long as he remembered. He has only ever lost his passport twice. He managed to leave his laptop in the hotel reception in Kupang and had it held to ransom. Here his foot is in a bucket of water as he managed to stand on a spent sparkler and burnt the bottom of his foot. He is however very knowledgeable about computers but not a bore with it - useful friend to know. He is an excellent linguist and has made us laugh a lot during lessons. He is working in the medical records /IT departments at the hospital in Kupang.
Dorothea - Doro or Thea - has overcome her apprehension about riding a motorbike despite burning her leg on the exhaust on her second day of training here. She is quite with a wicked sense of humour and I really enjoy talking with her. Unlike the rest of us she is only on a 12 month placement and will be based in the VSO office in Bali developing a database to match disabled people to job vacancies.
John is thankfully more serious and sensible than I am and will try to curb my more risky persuits. He is a football fanatic and follows Blackburn Rovers. He also likes watching a lot of films. So seemingly not much common ground for conversation - however we seem to be able to chat for hours. he enjoys analysing situations and is very astute. He has several feminine characteristis which with my masculine charactersitics mean we should be able to rub along quite well together on Rote.
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