{"id":687,"date":"2025-08-04T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/giracatavento.pt\/2025\/08\/04\/tebe-tebe\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T20:53:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:53:19","slug":"tebe-tebe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/giracatavento.pt\/en\/2025\/08\/04\/tebe-tebe\/","title":{"rendered":"Tebe Tebe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">Tebe tebe is the traditional dance of East Timor, bringing together young and old in a lively circle.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:36% auto\"><figure  class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img data-dominant-color=\"7e7d80\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #7e7d80;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_20230515_155433-scaled.webp\" class=\"wp-image-688 size-full not-transparent\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_20230515_155433-scaled.webp 2560w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_20230515_155433-300x225.webp 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_20230515_155433-1024x768.webp 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_20230515_155433-768x576.webp 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_20230515_155433-1536x1152.webp 1536w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_20230515_155433-2048x1536.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><video controls src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Tebe-tebe.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>On the Sacred Heart of Jesus holiday in 2023, there was a big celebration in Maliana. After lunch\u2014a shared meal with everyone present\u2014I was taught tebe tebe.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The universe willed that I be gifted in dance, and after 10 minutes, I had tebe tebe in my entire body, with the same naturalness as a local. On this day, by chance, I wore the dress seen in the video: red, with a very Timorese pattern, which I bought several years ago. In short, at a certain point, the only thing distinguishing me from a Timorese was my skin color, and the people at the party spoke to me in Tetum, assuming I had lived in Timor long enough to know the language!  <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<p>This is one of the essential qualities in those who do international volunteering: the ability to be a chameleon.<br\/>WE are the strangers, WE are the ones who must adapt to the people who welcome us, WE must necessarily respect the local culture, setting aside judgments and prejudices. I feel that I impacted the lives of all those I had the privilege to meet in Memo because in Timor, I was Timorese. <\/p>\n\n<p>Aware that being a chameleon is not a skill everyone possesses, all GiraCatavento volunteers with the desire to go on a mission will undergo a psychological &#8220;assessment&#8221; process. <\/p>\n\n<p>Why? First, we want to ensure adaptability in our volunteers, thus minimizing cultural shock for our volunteers and ensuring a positive and enriching volunteering experience. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tebe tebe is the traditional dance of East Timor, bringing together young and old in a lively circle. On the Sacred Heart of Jesus holiday in 2023, there was a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-timorese-beauty"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/giracatavento.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/giracatavento.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/giracatavento.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giracatavento.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giracatavento.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/giracatavento.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/giracatavento.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giracatavento.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/giracatavento.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giracatavento.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giracatavento.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}