Dave Pommier
I am a homeschooling dad with a wife and two boys. I'm not quite sure what I'm doing, so I feel compelled to write it all down. In my spare time, I work as a manager for the local health district, drink too much coffee, and am an overenthusiastic martial artist.
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Category Archives: Geography
Pemuteran and what happened next
We are in Bali at the moment, and have returned to Ubud from the north coast. We have just spent five days in Pemuteran and in a sense they marked both the high and low points of this whole trip. … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Life experiences
Tagged bali, bloke, homeschool, life experience, ocean, Pemuteran, travel, ubud
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Across Bali to Pemuteran
We have been spending some time in Pemuteran on the north west coast of Bali. I meant to post this a few days ago, but the internet connectivity was not up to it. Going from Ubud to Pemuteran, we spent … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Life experiences, Nature
Tagged bali, bloke, homeschool, learning in context, life experience, nature, Pemuteran, travel
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The opening days of Bali
So we are over at Bali. Simply getting here was an adventure in itself. It was an eighteen hour day of driving, hanging out in airports, and a six hour flight. Despite a few dramas, the boys handled it a … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Life experiences, Nature, Teaching and learning
Tagged bali, bloke, homeschool, learning in context, life experience, travel
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We are going to Bali
For a long time, I had no great desire to go to Bali. It seemed like the place to see drunken Aussie bogans on full display in a foreign country. Not a pretty sight. I have had a number of … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Life experiences
Tagged bali, bloke, homeschool, life experience, travel
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The things we find
My dad was a cartographer. A whole lot of my childhood drawings, right through into my teenage years, were drawn on the backs of maps. I love maps. As a kid, in the days before GPS, I would always … Continue reading
Posted in Geography
Tagged bloke, drawing, homeschool, imagination, learning in context, maps, math
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