"When opportunity knocks, make sure your door isn't locked" Julian Hall
This year, I started my first online learning course about “Management And Leadership”. I strongly believe that these skills will help me with my future plan. What I want to do right now is business management which requires a lot of management and leadership skills. Moreover, these skills are what we all need in life. Even right now I worked on so many projects in need it.
As a Liger student, we want to make possitive change in many different ways. We all came together to host the first-ever Khmer Literature and Cultural Festival, which is an event aims to leverage Cambodian literature and culture among students and authors through engaging activities, booths, traditional Khmer games, workshops, and panel discussions. This event went really that the school suggested us to put this event into the calendar that will happen everything year. My main position in this event is to invite schools to come to our event. So are so happy that we got around 300 students participate in our event.
In math, I’m taking an AP statistic class which we are learning about statistics and probability. Even though I’m not taking the AP exam but I’m still learning from it because it does help if I’m doing research in the future. This also helps me to work harder and help me with my reading skill because it’s a difficult concept. In these few months, we were studying about sampling distributions, normal distribution, and confidence intervals. 
“Girls play sports too? Girls are slower than boys! You will get tired easily; if you play sports your skin will get darker! Sports are not for girls!”
In Cambodia, when people hear the word “Kei La” (sports) they immediately think of boys. Vicki Chan’s article in 2014 about Ultimate (Frisbee) Cambodian Women declared “I notice that it is exclusively dominated by men, even though my school is 75%, women.” During recess, girls often sit under the shade of a tree and chat. The boys would use that time to play volleyball and soccer based on Vicki Chan.
The question is “Is this the girls’ fault?” I bet it’s not, this is because of the Cambodian history of how it shaped the girls. During this era, girls had strict commands, one of which they had to “go under the shade”, which is referred to in Khmer as “Chol Mlobb”. Girls would Chol Mlobb when they hit puberty. They would always linger inside the house and take care of their beauty. Furthermore, those girls had to learn various rules that get them ready to become wives. On the other hand, there also girls that in this society that passion in sports but feel frightened to ask the boys to share the field.
As a young girl lives in a typical life in a rural area, where that’s a lack of understanding about gender equity. One of them is sports if you were to walk to the sports field the boys dominate it. Is this because girls don’t like sports or because the field is dominated by boys?
This young brave girl named Horl Sokra has joined the first women frisbee league in Cambodia. Sports is apart of her life because this young athlete’s girl believes that sports would her to be a bolder person, more confident, healthier, lose weight, and fresher after playing. She plays soccer which is very common in Cambodia for boys. She repeats again no one forces her to play sports it starts from her
Horl Sokra expressed, it’s a huge struggle to coax the boys to share the field or play with them. The boys would respond to Horl Sokra: “Girls play sports too? Girls are slower than boys! You will get tired easily; if you play sports your skin will get darker! Sports are not for girls!”.
Horl Sokra angrily express her feeling toward the boys “We have legs and arms the same as the boys too; girls also have their own passion for sports same as the boys too.”
People can’t just make assumptions and judge a girl by her cover. We need to understand the situations they’ve been through and put yourself into someone’s shoes; one should understand how the other feels. This is only one single girl’s story and there are many Cambodian girls also have to confront these struggles as well.
Sreyneang Oun is 16 years old, Liger Leadership Academy student, if she was Horl Sokra, she would say “Don’t look down at the girls!” then she would walk away; she will form a team with other girls with the same passion and train themselves so one day they prove boys that “She can do it”. It’s much better than having conflicts with the boys.
If Cindy Liu, Liger Leadership Academy facilitator, is Horl Sokra she would respond that “there are no biological differences that women can’t play sports. I can choose what to do. There is no law said women can’t play sport!”
As a boy, Vuthy Vey calmly mentioned: “As a boy, we don’t really know what are the girls’ struggles unless they tell us.” Vuthy wants to clearly know that girls actually love sports and tell him reasons why they want to play. Then I asked him if he is a girl in this situation what would you reply or react? He paused then takes a moment to think. I could see it’s hard for him to think about what to response. A moment later he suddenly said, “If I would be a girl I would say, I play sports because it’s fun and it’s food for my health”. An hour later he gave me another statement “If I’m better than you what do you think? When you started to play you think you did well? Let me tell you nobody is perfect when they begin to do something! ”
I asked several students and staff from the Liger Leadership Academy what they would do if they were in the shoes of Horl Sokra. Bunthan Un, Liger Leadership Academy stated: “People have their own passion and have the right to play sports”.
Kangnaneat Sophea quickly responded with confidence: “I don’t want to be the girls that shape by the society, I want to be different. It does not affect anyone, if they stop me in a bad way I won’t stop following my passion.”
Puthea Kimhan would response: “Sports it’s not only for boys but it also for girls, girls can help to develop sports too, there are fewer girls in sports in Cambodia , so we need more girls to participate in sports”
So let me ask you a question if you were her in that situation what would your response?
A group of Liger’s students implementing the first Cambodian frisbee league, we want to empower rural girls in Cambodia and challenge stereotypes through the facilitation of a more gender-equitable environment in sports. Our frisbee league will bring sports for girls in Cambodia in the next level, changing that reality for hundreds of girls in rural Cambodia to participate in sports. There will be more girls on the field, boys will see the power of girls in sports.
Literacy is everywhere. We can learn from everywhere. Even though you’re an adult or children, books can teach you literacy, as well as entertain you as a reader.
The British author named Roald Dahl published at least 35 books. One of his books, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, was the continuation of the unforgettable Charlie and Chocolate Factory.
The book starts with the conclusion of what’s happening to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the previous book simultaneously, introduced characters. The whole family came into the Great Glass Elevator for Charlie’s celebration to become the new ownership of the Chocolate Factory. Grandpa Joe is one of the grandparents, he is willing taking part of Charlie and Willy Wonka. adventure. The glass elevator has the special function that nothing can go through it. Moreover, the Great Glass Elevator can bring everyone back into the Chocolate Factory. The adventure to get back into the Chocolate Factory, they have to go up very high until arriving the space. Unfortunately, Charlie’s grandma distracted him, and he did not pull the elevator back in time. This made the Great Glass Elevator get stuck in space, while they are in the space they noticed the Space Hotel “U.S.A” which later got attacked by the evil aliens, the Vermicious Knids. Wonka, Charlie, and Grandpa Joe collaborated to help those people, and finally, they saved the spaceship full of hotel employees commuting there. Again they also find strategies to get back into the Chocolate Factory. At the Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka offered pills called Wonka-Vite which made the grandparents younger. Regrettably, the grandparents took too many pills and what happens?
Roald Dahl created strange and unusual words in this book. Some words do not exist in this world because he created them by himself. For example, Minusland, Gettysburg, cantankerous, snozzwangers, whangdoodles, dumpery, etc. These new words helped Roald Dahl to clearly express each character’s behavior especially with the phrases the characters spoke. Those funny words help people to have fun with reading and it is silly to pronounce those words.
The readers not only learning literacy but also learning life’s lessons. The person that have well-being behavior is rewarded, and unacceptable behavior is punished. Charlie is very kind, brave and friendly. Additionally, Charlie would always endure all the trials because of that Charlie inherited the Chocolate Factory upon Wonka’s retirement. Moreover, Grandpa Joe is a pleasing person and worked flexibly hard with his mission especially, when he helped Mr. Wonka to fight against aliens. This is why nothing dangerous occurs to these characters.
On the other hand, the other three grandparents of Charlie are disrespectful, annoying, bad-tempered, and nasty. They are unwilling to work or use energy. They always stay on their bed (never want to get out). Most of the time they always have negative thoughts and act too headstrong. This is why throughout the book they always face hazardous situations. For instance, all of them selfishly took pills called Wonka-Vite from Willy Wonka to reduce age. Unfortunately, because of their egocentric nature, two of the grandparents became a 1-year-old baby. Another grandparent was minus age which made her disappear from this world and send to the Minusland.
Roald Dahl not only intentionally teaches the readers life lessons, but teaches us through settings as well. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator include the Space Hotel “U.S.A” and the Great Glass Elevator. The author tried to explain to the readers that current technology is rapidly developing. Inside Space Hotel there was a swimming pool, fancy bedrooms, dining rooms, gymnasium, etc. Also, the Great Glass Elevator can be able to travel to the space, which currently there are inventions that make people can travel into the space safely.
The Great Glass Elevator serves two target audiences: there are adults and children. Roald Dahl used strange worlds throughout the book, including aliens as the characters, and adding politicians in the book. Additionally, he used different types of people: lazy people, coward people, genius people, and hard working people. In order to make this book convincing and entertaining he used funny phrases as well. For example, Willy Wonka expressed, “We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it!”. Personally, I recommend everyone to read Roald Dahl books because you can entertain yourself and learn life lessons at the same time!
I am one of the organizing members of the second Cambodia Youth Film Festival (CYFF). So CYFF main goal is to contribute to the growth of our national film industry, allow students to open up their minds to different ways of expressing their thoughts and addressing different problems in society. This is open for students aged 15-20.
In order to make this successful, we, the organizers will be going to several different schools to host a film workshop. The workshop will last for three days, and the attendants are required to submit their film during the workshop. The top 4 films from each school will be showcased during the Youth Film Festival with those additional films from Phnom Penh.
We went to schools in Kompong Spue and Kompong Thom. We can see the students already got some skills since Cambodia have developed so much even though we are still developing. We got two films from KPS and 2 films from KPT. The workshop itself is only last for two days but we can see the whole process everyone was very productive with their work. Most of the team got the film done in two days: writing script, shoot the movie, acting, editing, etc. Basically, we took one morning to explain them all of the processes and then the rest of the time students were working on their short by themselves and we were there just to help them a little bit and wait for questions.
Do not sit there to hide.
Because one day you’ll die.
Being indifference just like you’re faint for the rest of your life.
People will just take the knife to cut you.
You might say OU. It hurts.
But the blood still keeps bleeding.
Because you’re still sitting.
Indifference causes suffering to continue.
You never want it to stick with you.
Just glue it to the wall.
Make sure it won’t fall back to you.
Because pain will sue you.
I’m serious. I’m not kidding.
You need to refill your pen with ink.
And start painting.
With colors, baubles, pictures.
Structure your own life.
So you know why you should survive.
To strive all tragedies.
This is the key to set you free.
Confront the fear.
It won’t get nearer.
End the life of being indifference.
To break the silence.
To stop the violence.
To end war.
Because we are all warrior.
The warrior that have choice, voice, and joyce.
I am strongly believe education is very important for everyone both boys and girls. The number of students that dropout is really high. But there are no recent research to figure out reasons why students dropout. This year I am doing the research about reasons why lower secondary high school students (grades 7-9) drop out of school in Siem Pang district, Steung Treng compared to Phnom Penh, 7 Makara district. Overall in Cambodia, in 2010, the dropout rate was higher for the lower secondary school (19.6%) than that of the primary school dropout, 8.7%, and upper secondary dropout rate is 11.8% (USAID From The American People). Phnom Penh has the lowest dropout (9.1 percent) and Banteay Meanchey has the highest rate (26.2 percent). I’m going to survey both parents and students that had drop out in one of the districts in Banteay Meanchey and Phnom Penh to compare the differences.
One challenge that I’m trying to overcome is to figure out ways I can find people that had dropout to interview. As you know we can’t find students and parents that dropout at school. They might go to other country. So some solutions I found are to interview those people during Khmer new year (this is the time people gather) and interview people at the factory (there are a lot of workers at the factory which didn’t require any education level).
Most of the time in class I worked on the statistic number of how many parents and students I could survey to make a valid data. Also, in order to convey a good survey is the wording of the questions. So most of the time I’m trying to figure out questions I should asks and how to ask the questions (the wording of the questions).
Literacy is everywhere. We can learn from everywhere. Even though you’re an adult or children, books can teach you literacy, as well as entertain you as a reader.
The British author named Roald Dahl published at least 35 books. One of his books, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, was the continuation of the unforgettable Charlie and Chocolate Factory.
The book starts with the conclusion of what’s happening to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the previous book simultaneously, introduced characters. The whole family came into the Great Glass Elevator for Charlie’s celebration to become the new ownership of the Chocolate Factory. Grandpa Joe is one of the grandparents, he is willing taking part of Charlie and Willy Wonka. adventure. The glass elevator has the special function that nothing can go through it. Moreover, the Great Glass Elevator can bring everyone back into the Chocolate Factory. The adventure to get back into the Chocolate Factory, they have to go up very high until arriving the space. Unfortunately, Charlie’s grandma distracted him, and he did not pull the elevator back in time. This made the Great Glass Elevator get stuck in space, while they are in the space they noticed the Space Hotel “U.S.A” which later got attacked by the evil aliens, the Vermicious Knids. Wonka, Charlie, and Grandpa Joe collaborated to help those people, and finally, they saved the spaceship full of hotel employees commuting there. Again they also find strategies to get back into the Chocolate Factory. At the Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka offered pills called Wonka-Vite which made the grandparents younger. Regrettably, the grandparents took too many pills and what happens?
Roald Dahl created strange and unusual words in this book. Some words do not exist in this world because he created them by himself. For example, Minusland, Gettysburg, cantankerous, snozzwangers, whangdoodles, dumpery, etc. These new words helped Roald Dahl to clearly express each character’s behavior especially with the phrases the characters spoke. Those funny words help people to have fun with reading and it is silly to pronounce those words.
The readers not only learning literacy but also learning life’s lessons. The person that have well-being behavior is rewarded, and unacceptable behavior is punished. Charlie is very kind, brave and friendly. Additionally, Charlie would always endure all the trials because of that Charlie inherited the Chocolate Factory upon Wonka’s retirement. Moreover, Grandpa Joe is a pleasing person and worked flexibly hard with his mission especially, when he helped Mr. Wonka to fight against aliens. This is why nothing dangerous occurs to these characters.
On the other hand, the other three grandparents of Charlie are disrespectful, annoying, bad-tempered, and nasty. They are unwilling to work or use energy. They always stay on their bed (never want to get out). Most of the time they always have negative thoughts and act too headstrong. This is why throughout the book they always face hazardous situations. For instance, all of them selfishly took pills called Wonka-Vite from Willy Wonka to reduce age. Unfortunately, because of their egocentric nature, two of the grandparents became a 1-year-old baby. Another grandparent was minus age which made her disappear from this world and send to the Minusland.
Roald Dahl not only intentionally teaches the readers life lessons, but teaches us through settings as well. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator include the Space Hotel “U.S.A” and the Great Glass Elevator. The author tried to explain to the readers that current technology is rapidly developing. Inside Space Hotel there was a swimming pool, fancy bedrooms, dining rooms, gymnasium, etc. Also, the Great Glass Elevator can be able to travel to the space, which currently there are inventions that make people can travel into the space safely.
The Great Glass Elevator serves two target audiences: there are adults and children. Roald Dahl used strange worlds throughout the book, including aliens as the characters, and adding politicians in the book. Additionally, he used different types of people: lazy people, coward people, genius people, and hard working people. In order to make this book convincing and entertaining he used funny phrases as well. For example, Willy Wonka expressed, “We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it!”. Personally, I recommend everyone to read Roald Dahl books because you can entertain yourself and learn life lessons at the same time!
