User:PaulM

I love Bali and feel the need to know some Balinese and Indonesian so I can stop being just another tourist. I would love to retire there and get involved in some meaningful way with the Balinese community. My work skills don't necessarily lend themselves (IT), but I have a good grasp of mechanics and physics, so I can build practical "stuff" without it falling apart or being over engineered. I don't believe that "giving back" in a first world country is necessary as anyone who stands up can be counted and embraced in some way. I don't want to appear patronising, but the third world can do with some help, and maybe it does have it right in a lot of respects; and the first world can learn from that.