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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 As I have been thinking about my original site and how outdated much of the information is, I’ve been trying to figure out what the theme of the last fourteen years has been.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.

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A Sunday at the market for the overseas teacher.