Welcome to the reconverted www.cyberbali.com web site. I originally
created the cyberbali site years ago as one of my first web pages.
The idea was to write about life in Bali as a guide for tourists.
However, Bali has changed and there are so many web sites about
Bali now that this one seemed redundant, especially with the changes
in my life over the eighteen years that I have been living and
teaching overseas.
I first started working overseas in 1989 teaching second grade
in the Indonesian province that was, at the time, called Irian
Jaya and is now generally referred to as Papua. A year and a half
later I married an Indonesia woman, Suhanah, and since then we
have had four children.
Over the years, I have taught in two schools in Papua, a school
in Lahore, Pakistan, and am now teaching on the Indonesian island
of Sumbawa. I still have a few houses on the island of Bali, but
the focus of my life has shifted to Sumbawa. As I have been thinking
about my original site and how outdated much of the information
is, I’ve been trying to figure out what the theme of the
last fourteen years has been. Well, duh, teaching and living overseas.
So the new cyberbali.com will be focused on just that theme.
There will be pages here about teaching, both general and especially
geared for overseas teachers, and there will pages about life
overseas, specifically about those places that I have been living
in: Papua, Bali, Pakistan, and now Sumbawa. For more information
about Sumbawa try my new domain at sumbawa.org. You can contact
me at one of the following address: bruce(at)cyberbali.com or sulaiman(at)cyberbali.com.
By the way, I converted to Islam in 1999 and regularly use use
two names; Bruce Pohlmann and Sulaiman Jamal - just so you don’t
get confused as you move through this site
Thanks for visiting and feedback is always welcomed.
May
4 ,
2008
Down to
six weeks and you can see the boat moving at the bottom of
the page as I know more than a few of you are watching. We
are still in the process of getting ready for the move. Actually,
I'm in the process; the rest of the family is acting like nothing
new is going to happen. Curious. We've updated information
on the house over on the Sumbawa site. We are now willing to
rent the house for a year or sell it. Actually, we'd rather
rent it, but if we had a solid offer...So far we've had a few
people interested but nothing definite yet. You might also
want to check out the blog on
international education which has been doing quite well since
its launce a few months back.
Updates - May
4 ,
2008
Writing
Resources has
a great new link for the writer. The Technology page
has a link to a site with free software, and there is a very
cool site with movie sound bites. There are also a few sites
with some Photoshop tips. The Anthropology page
has a link to anthropology glossaries. The Writing
Resources page has another link
to a site with a long list of resources for the writer. The
Indonesian Links page has a link to a site on Flores and
Komodo. And
if you want to listen to the Life
in the Tropics podcast just click
on this.
Click on the button for an rss feed.
A Sunday at the market for the overseas teacher.
