The Adventures of Takako the Danger Librarian

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Once upon a time, there was a Short Asian Chick Librarian named Takako. Through luck, fluke, and circumstance, she landed at the United Nations Dag Hammarskjold Library to work at the External Collection Reference Desk, chasing answers and footnotes, finding pesky, elusive documents, and doing many a happy dance over questions conquered.

Then one day, she decided to go off to the other side of the world to help build a little country named East Timor by doing her Librarian-ing there. Thus was born....

TAKAKO, THE DANGER LIBRARIAN!

And these... are her adventures....

• 18 October 2001: One Week (not the one sung by Barenaked Ladies)
• 25 October 2001: Men, Moving and Mosquitoes
• 4 November 2001: Unexpected and Unprepared plus Postcript, 6 November 2001
• 17 November 2001: Visiting Darwin (the place, not the dead guy)
• 23 November 2001: Thanksgiving in the Tropics
• 5 January 2002: The Holiday Vortex and the People Who Help Me Cope

Photographs

Some Ocean Views

• Dili's shorline.
• A boat in the bay next to the Amos.

Loro Sae Dili Hotel

(popularly known as the Resende, because that's what it used to be called)

• My two closets. I only use one (on the left).
• My meager attempts at interior decoration.
• Desk (which also serves as the bookshelf), the fridge and TV.
• My bed.
• The spare bed, currently used for clothes storage.

Amos Warf Hotel, aka "The Boat"

My former abode.

• The bunks.
• The porthole. (See, I know all the correct terms!)
• My stuff in the corner.
• The TV and even more stuff.
• The door to the corridor.
• The head.
• The sink, etc. Kinda icky but manageable.

Work

• View of UNTAET Headquarters from the Amos.
• The Kobe House that houses the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA).
• Inside the Kobe House.
• My little nook.
• A few of my charges.

Friends I've Made So Far

• Yasmeen, the administrative assistant and all-around mother hen.
• Hiro, who has now gone back to Japan.
• Hiro with Xavier, he who had the sign with my name on it at the airport.
• Tahir, Yasmeen's friend, at dinner at the Central Maritime Hotel, aka "The Big Boat"
• Magda, my "partner in crime" and all-around Cool Australian Chick ™.

Thanks (?) to K for supplying the title.

Takako Nagumo
Updated 7 January 2004