Vicente shares his views on relieving stress

Exercise is better than drinking alcohol if you want to relieve stress

 

Personally, I believe that exercise is essential for relieving people’s stress and improving their health.  Exercise is one of the habits that people should consider. Today, many people are involved in sports as a way of exercises. For example, both sexes from different ages in Timor-Leste like to run every afternoon or morning. Nevertheless, some people prefer to drink alcohol after work to relief their stresses.

 In the first place, when people exercise effectively, like running, playing football, yoga and other exercise they can help to ease stress and improve health. As an example, running is an exercise that enables blood to flow smoothly to all organs in our body. In addition, it helps people’s heart rate to pump normally.         

Nevertheless, some people claim that drinking alcohol can help to reduce their stress.  In Timor-Leste, some people like to drink local wine or whiskey after spending long hours at work. This habit can be a good one as long people don’t drink excessively. Because alcohol causes serious damage to your brain as it can affect the way the brain looks and works. 

Despite the arguments above, I would say that playing football, running and yoga are the best exercise.  People can easily get sick if they don’t.

  

How to make a katupa basket - Cecilia

 Cecilia tells us how to make the baskets to cook our katupa

Meals without rice aren't complete, so Timorese people eat it everyday. We eat many types of food to give health and energy. There are many types of katupa you can choose and make by hand.

Step One

To prepare the fresh coconut leaf, take out the rib.

Step Two

Open a coconut leaf over the left hand between your thumb and finger and wrap the front of the leaf around the back of the leaf. Fold the back leaf and pull it up.

Step Three

Put the leaf behind the loop at the front and do the same with the back.

Step Four

Continue to pull up the coconut leaf from the front to the back again and put it in the hole at the top and do the same with the other end of the leaf.

Step Five

Continue to pull up the leaves through the hole at the top continue to weave the the leaf through the end holes and then the bottom holes. Do the same with the other end of the leaf at the back.

Step Six

Take the coconut leaf off the left hand and make sure the the two leaves are wrapped the opposite way and continue to weave one line over the other line.

Step Seven

Finally make sure you pull each one so that there are no holes.



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How to make Fried Rice - Aida

Step One

Prepare the rice, onions, butter salt, tomato sauce, ketchup, cooking oil and eggs.

Step Two

Put the rice on the plate and mix it with a spoon to make sure it's cooked and ready to fry.

Step Three

Prepare the stove and put kerosene in it.

Prepare the pan and light the stove. Put the pan on it.

Step Four

Put the butter or cooking oil in the pan.

Chop the onions and put them in the oil. Wait until they are dry and smell nice then you can put the rice in. After that you have to put the salt and other ingredients in it. After you add the ingredients you use the spoon to mix the rice until it's dry. When the rice has dried, you can add eggs and some carrot that you have prepared and some peas that you have dried before.

Step Five

Add tomato sauce and ketchup to the rice as well and mix it.

Step Six

When the rice is fried enough, put it on the plate and the fried rice is ready to eat.

Step Seven
Enjoy your fried rice with your family at home for breakfast.

Development of Timor-Leste - Leonor

Timor-Leste is a new country in Asia, that received independence thirteen years ago, so there are several things needed in order to develop the country.

Firstly, if we want to develop the country more, we have to maintain good trade relations with neighbouring countries to maintain exports and franchises.

Secondly, we have to build good infrastructure. As we all know, here in Timor-Leste, there aren't many special buildings that can attract visitors except Timor-Plaza. So, we should build some attractions such as shopping centers, malls, big stores and even an airport. I think that these could be a good idea because through them, we could attract many investors. Not only that, it could also minimize unemployment in this country.

Lastly, tourism spots. Through these we could increase our country's economy.

In short, good trade relations, infrastructure and tourist spots are good ideas for developing the country.

WF 2 are starting to think about writing essays.

The Writing Fundamentals 2 class has been working on opinion essays. Here they are hard at work getting the structures right.

WF 1 students writing short stories with their new teacher - James

We have some great photos of the Writing Fundamentals 1 class writing short stories.

Welcome to James, their new teacher!

How to make fried noodles and egg - Noemio

How to make fried noodles and eggs

These days people are busy with work, they have no time for cooking. To prevent this happening to us and to reduce hunger, light meals can make the difference. Fried noodles and eggs will give a light lunch.

Step One

Prepare the entire ingredients on the table, like chopped onions and tomatoes, cooking oil, eggs, seasoning and the noodles. Prepare a clean frying pan as well. Light up the fire ready to start cooking.

Step Two

Open the noodles. Crumble them into pieces and put them onto the plate. Put the frying pan on the fire, add some cooking oil and heat it up.

Step Three

After the cooking oil is hot enough, just put all the chopped onions and tomatoes into the frying pan. Leave them there for a while and stir. After some time add the crumbled noodles. Stir it for a while.

Step Four

Add the seasoning that came with the packet of noodles and a pinch or salt or more according to your taste. It will smell good. Stir it up again. And now add a little bit of water to it.

Step Five

Keep it in the frypan until all the water soaks up into the noodles and then put them on a plate. Now wash the frying pan and put it back on the fire to dry. Add some cooking oil in it while it is heating up.

Step Six

Smash the eggs and put them into hot oil and add some salt. The eggs will be ready in several minutes. Take them out of the frying pan and put them on the cooked noodles.

Now you are ready to serve the fried noodles and eggs. Enjoy them.

Noemio

How to make DIli a better place to live - Avelino

Some of the big problems in Dili are high unemployment, gang violence and poor building regulations.

Firstly, in order to deal with the problem of high unemployment, the government needs to support small companies. If more people are able to start and develop businesses, this would help people to find jobs. The government could do this by providing grants or low interest loans. By doing this we would see more local people working and earning money.

Secondly, gang violence is a big problem among young people. The situation could be improved by helping young people to find jobs, non-formal training or other healthy activities like sports. This would give young people a better way to use their spare time.

Finally, the problem of poor building regulations is a serious one in Dili. It would be a good idea for the government to provide clear rules and guidelines for people to follow so that they don't have problems in the future. If the government could enforce the rules the result would be better buildings for the general public and the government will save money when building and maintaining public infrastructure.

How can we make Dili a better place to live? Aida

Litter, dust, and animals are the most serious problems in Dili nowadays, what can we do to help people live in healthy environment?

First of all, it would be a good idea to help people and educate the children through campaigns at schools or universities. So that, children and adults might be able understand and know how to put rubbish in the bins.  Also the Government should put rubbish bin in the streets, at terminals or bus stations. To make sure everyone can throw away their rubbish when they have finished with it. The result would be good; there would not be rubbish everywhere. If it is in the rainy season, it would not cause floods in the streets or on the roads.

Secondly, in order to make Dili the best place to live, we should ask the Government especially through the Ministry which is relevant to the public works to build drainage next to the road and fix all of the roads. So that, it can minimize the dust.

Finally, it would be better if we made an animal law so that, the animals can live safely in one place instead of walking around the streets and not crossing the road. The result would be to minimize the accidents for people who ride a motorbikes or cars.

To sum up, educating people through the schools or universities, build good roads and putting the animals in proper places it would create a good environment for people to live.

How to make a coconut jelly easily! - Leonor

Jelly is a type of semi-solid dessert that is a preserved mixture of fruit, juices, or sometimes with sea grasses. Making and canning your own coconut jelly is extremely easy.

Here are the few steps to make it:

Step One

Collect all the ingredients - sugar, water, coconut juice/coconut, I package of jelly powder, milk

Step Two

Boil 300ml of water over a medium heat.

Step Three

Pour one package of jelly powder to the boiling water. Then continue to add 150ml of milk and 2-3 tablespoons of sugar together into the pot and mix them together.

Step Four

Prepare one bowl and pour 400ml of coconut juice into the bowl.

Step Five

Once the jelly has boiled, remove it from the pot and pour it together with the coconut juice and mix them well.

Step Six

Once it is mixed well, put the jelly into the refridgerator for 2 hours and then your coconut jelly is ready to serve...!

And now you can make your own homemade coconut jelly....

Leonor

Writing, writing, writing!

Welcome to Matenek Hakerek in English at LELI

Matenek Hakerek is a group of Writing Fundamentals students at Lorosa'e English Language Institute in Kampung Alor, Dili. We are the first students to have the great opportunity to learn writing in English for work and study.

Writing Fundamentals runs every Friday for two hours in the evening. Students are from different occupations and are different ages. The course includes writing essays, reports, articles and emails.

We have classroom activities. We do individual and group writing. We edit our work to improve it and we do homework to practice.

It is a window of opportunity to enhance our English writing skills so as to enable us to apply for any future scholarships that are offered and also to improve our report writing, essay writing and emails in the workplace.

We would like to share what we are learning with others around the world, in particular Timor Leste


Vicente