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about my original site and how outdated much of the information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.
July 12,
2008
The
new school year starts for my former school on
Monday which means that I'll really feel retired.
(I still have this feeling that I'll be going
back to work soon, and I'll be happy when that
passes.) We are working at getting the house
put together before guests start arriving, but
it's a bigger job than we expected. My wife is
over on the island of Sumbawa dealing with issues
arising from still having a house there, and
I'm working on the book, cleaning, cooking, and
taking care of the kids that are here.
As
I mentioned a few months ago, I want to put some
new things on this site which is really my first
love - the blogs that are listed below are new
loves, but not as dear to me as the cyberbali
site which has been around now in one form or
another for 14 years. I finally found an internet
provider here in the north which gives me fairly
good speed so I can carry out some of my new
plans (what are they? More next week.), but it
comes at a slight increase in costs which has
taken me over my retirement budget for internet
access. With that said, I have decided to reformat
cyberbali with a slightly new look, and I'll
be adding some Google Ads to hopefully help pay
for the costs of maintaining this site and the
others that I have. So when you click on a link
to a topic here, you will soon be seeing some
Ads. If they are of interest, click away.
For those of you still on vacation -
enjoy your well deserved rest.
Other Sites
by
Dr. Bruce
