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I go to an unusual school

Name: Sovannou
Group: A
Date: 04.09.2015
English Writing

I go to an unusual school. This school is called The Liger Learning Center (LLC). Liger is located in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in Southeast Asia. Liger is a non-profit school. Liger has a different style of learning model. Mostly the government schools in Cambodia don’t try to make change agents of the students. Liger, the learning model is different from the government schools and there are 11 different change agents characteristics. Liger uses change agent characteristic to help students to think about themself and changing themself to have a brighter future and become professional person. Liger provides one laptop for each student. This year Liger has essential classes which include literacy, STEM and math. There are expertise classes and many types of big projects. There are many topics that Liger students have been doing in school to help change Cambodia. The main idea of what Liger students are doing right now is called Exploration. This means the project that we are doing has a main idea of learning for seven weeks. In exploration we do some research, experiments and explore the real world outside of the compos. This will help the students benefits from outside experience and to learn about their topic. When we finish an exploration (project) we have a sharation, which means to make a celebration of sharing information of what we have studying in class. The reason that Liger had this type of learning policy is because of Liger wants to help the potential of a kid and the ability of the kid to be a stronger and better person, which is very unusual for a school.

This is my favourite school ! Even this school is an unusual school I still feel very happy to enjoy studying. Liger give me an education, best study theory and explore real life and this thing is never been my experience. Liger take me to be who I am today. I want to develop myself and my country. So even I walk slowly but I never walk backward.

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Weekly Journal about KPC Trip

Trip to Kampong Chhnang
   On 11th March 2015 I and my friends in Poverty group when to Kompong Chhnang
to study about the Poverty, to interview community people and to learn from the other expert about their project and some of the history about the stupa Bades. On the way to Kompong Chhnang everyone was excited and happy. They all are laughing ,singing in the bus and some are sleeping. Then when we arrive between Phnom Penh and Kandal province I, my friends and teacher stop the bus to buy some snack for our self. On the way there I saw lots of plants, lots of houses and  saw the people construct the road. At about 11:00 am we arrived at Kompong Chhnang then we went to one organization call CPR ( Cambodia Poverty Reduction). Then at about 12:00pm we ate lunch at CPR with yummy pork. After we finished eating our lunch we played some games like frisbee and football. Then at 1:30pm we met together with our team to discuss about what we’re going to do with group when we interview to the community people in the next half hour. Then after we meet together we went over the bus then  we left to the community people’s house to interview them about their livelihood and ask them about their family. Then after that we when to Stupa Bades at Krangloav village. When we arrived at there we learn about the stupa Pades from the village’s chief. He told us about all the history that happening at there and about Bades and the determan grandmother. Then at about 4:30 pm we leave that pagoda then we continue our ways to go to Visal house.When we arrive at Visal house we went to take a shower then we went to ate dinner at the restaurant near Pongro Market. After we ate dinner we went back to Visal house then we all was working on the reflection about the day then at about 9:00pm everyone go on the bed to slept. At the morning we all woke up fast then we take shower and prepare to go to York waterfall. After taking shower we went to ate breakfast at the same place as we ate at night. When finished our breakfast we went to York waterfall at between the border Pursat province and Kompong Chhnang province. Then after played at the waterfall about 3 hours we went back to Visal house then we went to CPR to interview them and got the presentation from them either. What I learned from CPR group is that CPR start in 2003. First they start only in Kompong Chang then they started to open in Banteay Meanchey. There group most focus on PLHIV. PLHIV is a type of a disease that bad for people. They making this program to helping communities people and helping the kids who live with the family member that have a PLHIV disease. In Kompong Chhnang there are 4 teams that do saiving groups. As they explain us they said that in Kompong Chhnang there were 586 people who have a PLHIV problem and there also about 1200 people who have a PLHIV problem in Banteay Meanchey as well. Also what I notice about CPR is that this project can work because they got the donate or fund from KHANA. Then after we interviewed we came to the river side to see Neang KongRey mountain. It was very fun to saw the environment at there. After we went to KongRey mountain we came back to Visal house then get changed to get to dinner. Then when we finished ate dinner we went back to Visal house after that we right our reflection about CPR presentation but at that time I was stomachache and I cannot stay still I need to move all the time because it really hard but then when I got the medicine from nurse I was better than what I have before. Then at about 9:00pm every went to bad and everyone was quiet and I see a really beautiful star in the sky when I looked out of the window then I felt slept. In the morning everyone was woke up and when I looked to all of them look like they are so tired but then everyone go to take shower. At about 6:40 am everyone was prepare their stuff to go back to Liger then everyone packed all of their bag and group stuff into the bus, then at 6:45am we said goodbye to Visal grandmother and grandfather. Then the bus wheel started to go then at 6: 50 am we arrived the restaurant . When we ate breakfast finished we went to CPR to get one woman that she work at CPR to take us to go to the saving group place. After 7:50 am we arrived at the saving group place. Then everyone just prepare their stuff for presentation and interviewed. At about 9:00am we have a interviewed with the saving group members to asked them about their saving group. Then after we interviewed the saving group people we called the saving group member to go and learned about first aid, we have prepare two lesson to teach them one is temperature and the second one is ankle sprain. After we taught the saving group people we all ate lunch at there and relaxed and some boys were playing football after they ate lunch. Then at 12:30 pm lots of kids from the community came to play games with our group, first we thought that their were only about 20 kids were come but it not it ways more than what we thinked after that we have fun with the kids and played a lot of fun games with them. At about 1:45 pm we clean up our place then say goodbye to the kids because we need to came back to Liger. When we ride on the bus about 45 minutes we were arrived at the border of Kompong Chhnang and Kompong Speu and everyone was go out of the bus to bought some snacks. At about two hours later we arrive Liger. I was really happy to go and studied at Kompong Chhnang and getting new experience also to visited knew place in Cambodia.

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Who I am?

I
am
Sovannou.
I’m 13 years old.
I am from
Takeo province.
I am passionate
at writing stories.
I love to learn about business.
A lot of talking, dancing,
singing and playfulness
are part of my natural
personality.
Travel and Visiting
places are
my preference.
All I want is
friends and happiness.
I<3 my family.
I
am
Sovannou.

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Dragonsitter – 48-57

Name: Sovannou
Date: 28.5.2015

1. What does it mean to be bad-tempered? Have you ever met anyone like that? Tell me about it.
Bad-tempered mean the general emotion that you do everyday. I have one friend that have a bad tempered, she is always mean to the other girl and always play with girl that have the bad tempered like her.

Dragonsitter Disaster

2. Why didn’t Morton check his email? What made him finally read his mail?
Uncle Morton didn’t his email because he don’t want to destructed his holiday time and he want to spent time only play not to thinking about the work or something else. Something that made him finally read email is he heard the rumor said the Lower Bisket that near his island was flood so he worry about his friends then he go on the phone and checked after that when he find out it was the Upper Buskett Island is flood.

3. Why did Morton change hotels?
Uncle Morton changed his hotel because the first hotel that he want to stay is have the chief that he want to eat the food from that chief but then that chief was having a problem with the owner of the hotel so he moved to the hotel than uncle Morton also go follow the chief because uncle Morton want to eat the food that the chief cook.

4. What present does Morton give to each member of the family? Which one would you want? Why?
Uncle Morton give the monkey to Emily, cheese for Eddie mother and French book to Eddie.
I would prefer the French book. I choose that choice because if I have French book it help me to learn more about it and know how to speak French.

5. What is Mom’s idea about Uncle Morton’s instructions list? Do you agree with her? Why or why not?
Mom’s idea about Uncle Morton’s instruction list is that she think that Uncle Morton just put the instruction list under the sofa when he came to take the dragon because when before Uncle Morton came to take the dragon mom never saw that instruction list.
I think I agree with her idea. I agree with her idea because if Uncle Morton put the instruction list under the sofa he would tell mom already or Eddie already but he didn’t tell so i would guess that Uncle Morton just put it when he came and took the dragon.

6. Make a prediction about what happens next.
My prediction about what happens next is that I think Eddie’s mom will tell Uncle Morton to take the dragon back because mom have the instruction list about the dragon so it will be better for her to look after the dragon.

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Chapter Five (Cassidy The Costume Fairy)

Name: Sovannou

Date: 26.3.2015

1. What does it mean that the goblin was “protectively clutching” the tiara to his head? Cassidy

Protectively clutching the tiara to his head mean that the goblin is trying to protect the tiara from the fairies and and hold it on carefully don’t let the fairies take it from the princess goblin head.

2. Why do they think the goblin may have gone back to the Throne Room?

They think that goblin may have gone back to the Throne Room because the goblin had enjoyed sitting on the throne earlier, and kirsty had to waiting for the goblin to go out of the throne.

3. What is the plan to distract the goblin? While he is distracted, what will the girls try to do?

The plan to distract the goblin is that Kirsty going to be turn back into a human and being a court jester. While Kirsty is distracted the princess goblin Cassidy and Richel try to get closer on the princess goblin head to take the tiara back from the princess goblin.

4. What does glee mean?

Glee mean to be excited or to be happy.

5. What does it mean to “duck,” which the guard goblin yells at the end?

I think in this sentence the word duck that the guard goblin yells at the end mean he said to the princess goblin that there were a duck a blow at behind him.

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Third Wheel

My idiom that I have working on it call “Third Wheel”.
Third Wheel mean two people are connected and want to be alone together, but a third person joins, who is not welcome.

My idiom poster
My idiom poster

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Setting up the goals

When I studied in Cambodian Economy exploration I felt really excited to studied new things about Cambodian Economy also to studied with Jeff my teacher. In class Jeff taught us lots of things about the economy in Cambodia and the things that is related to the economy in Cambodia. In class I studied about the corruption in Cambodia and discuss with friend about the corruption in Cambodia. Venghour my friend said that in the past he had a problem with the corruption with his teacher in government school and I ask him some questions back to know more about.Then I told him back about my experience when I was studied in the government school that my teacher has a corruption. I really like to heard about Venghour experience and also to know about Cambodia’s people. I felt not happy when I saw that Cambodia is in 157 rank out of 177 rank country in the world. For me I already know little about bit about my country that it might have the corruption but it lots of corruption in Cambodia. If in the future I can be a leader to control Cambodia I would not make Cambodia have lots of corruption like this I will change my country to be one of the brighter country in Southeast Asia and I hope in the world too. In Cambodian Economy class I got a new things from Jeff and also I really like to study about Cambodia economy and because of my teacher Jeff is a good teacher and explain us also give advice to us so it help me and all of my friends understand about Cambodian Economy. In Cambodian Economy class we went to two places in Cambodia there are 1. Men Sarun company ( Agro-Industry) 2. Koh pich. We went there to studied about the import and export and also to collect the data to put it in the our book and to help students in government school to understand about Cambodian Economy. At the end of my exploration I am not so happy to end this exploration because I want to get more information and experiences to help myself and friends to understand clearly about Cambodian Economy. In my new exploration I study about Poverty in Cambodia I felt so happy and I waiting for the time to study about it. When I heard about that I will study about Poverty in Cambodia. My goal for this exploration I want to collect all the information as I can to help the people in Cambodia and also help to teach Liger students about it.

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Khmer Social Class Work 7-8 (Sovannou)

សំណួរនិងចំលើយ

ប្រធានបទ: សុភមង្គលគ្រួសារ

តើអ្វីទៅជាសុភមង្គល?
សុភមង្គលមានន័យថាមង្គលល្អ សេចក្តីសុខ សេចក្តីចំរើន។

តើសុភមង្គលក្នុងគ្រួសារនោះមានន័យដូចម្តេចទៅ?
សុភមង្គលក្នុងគ្រួសារមានន័យថា គ្រួសារមានសេចក្តីសុខនិងសេចក្តីចម្រើន ហើយគ្រួសាររស់នៅមានភាពសុខដុមរមនាគ្មានអំពើហិង្សានិងគ្មានការរើសអើងចំពោះកូនប្រុសនិងកូនស្រី។ ជាទូទៅសេចក្តីសុខមានពីរប្រភេទ គឺសេចក្តីសុខផ្លូវកាយនិងសេចក្តីសុខផ្លូវចិត្ត។សេចក្តីសុខផ្លូវកាយគឺសុខនូវរាងកាយ ការគ្មានអំពើហិង្សានិងការគ្មានការរំលោភបំពាន។ ចំណែកឯសេចក្តីសុខផ្លូវចិត្តគឺចិត្តស្ងប់ មានអារម្មណ៍ល្អ គ្មានការប្រមាតមើលងាយពីអ្នកដ៏ទៃ។​​

១. ចូររៀបរាប់អំពីសុភមង្គលក្នុងគ្រួសារ។
សុភមង្គលក្នុងគ្រួសារគឺការរស់នៅក្នុងគ្រួសារជាមូយកររួបរួមគ្នានិងាការសាមគ្គីគ្នានៅក្នុងសមាជិកគ្រួសារ។ គ្រួសារនីមួយៗសិតតែចង់បានសុភមង្គលសំរាប់គ្រួសាររបស់ខ្លួនហើយក៏ចង់បានសេចក្តីសុខក្នុងគ្រូសារខ្លួនផងដែរ។

២. តើអ្វីទៅជាសុភមង្គល?
សុភមង្គលមានន័យថាមង្គលល្អ សេចក្តីសុខ សេចក្តីចំរើន។

៣. តើយើងគួរធ្វើដូចម្តេចដើម្បីអោយមានសុភមង្គលក្នុងគ្រួសារ?
ដើម្បីធ្វើអោយមានសុភមង្គលក្នុងគ្រួសារយើងត្រួវ
១. រស់នៅក្នុងការចុះសម្រុងក្នុងគ្រួសារ
២. ស្រលាញ់គ្នានិងត្រូវអោយតំលៃដល់គ្នាទៅវិញទៅមក
៣. ផ្តល់អ្វីដែលកូនត្រូវការឬប្តីឬក៏ប្រពន្ធត្រូវការ

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Weekly Journal about Sunrise Performance.

On October 24th I went to the Sun Rise performance at Chaktomuk theater. When I went into the Chaktomuk theater I feel like the ground is smooth and smell like the aromatic perfume of the people use. Then when I went inside the theater to see the performance I saw the people walked around and talked with each other. In there I smell like the BBQ that the people make and I felt hungry. Then I walked on the ground I felt that the ground is soft and cold. Then I sat down on the chair I felt comfortable and easy . Five minutes pass the Sun rise student start to perform it’s so cool and the sound like quiet and everyone at there was focus to the performance. In the performance they talked about 3 empire 1. The Angkor Empire 2. Khmer rouge 3. Phnom Penh now.
When they perform they put a lot of feeling in the perform and show us that how Cambodia is important. When they show us about the Angkor Empire it was so amazing because they show us when the time that Cambodia was developing in that time but when they show us about Khmer rouge they show us how it’s difficult and what it look like. Then 1 hour later they finished the performance so we all cleaning up our space then we go back to Liger.

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Chapters 5/6: True Gentlemouse/I’m Leaving

Name: SovannouI'm too fond of my fur!!
Date: 6.12.2014

  1. What does Geronimo tell his sister and cousin is important to him? How does his presentation to them make him feel?

Geronimo tells his sister and his cousin that Professor Von Volt is really important to him. His presentation makes Geronimo feel sad and makes him feel like he doesn’t want to go because he doesn’t like to travel. Great!

2.What sort of things does Geronimo pack to go to the Himalayas? Why?

He took a wool scarf around his neck, suitcase, few sweaters, warm pants and heavy winter jacket.

Geronimo took a lot stuff to there because he knew that at the Himalayas are cool and it’s on the top of the Everest mountain.

3.Why does little Benjamin start to cry?

The reason that Benjamin started to cry is because he said to Geronimo, “Please don’t go, Uncle,” and Benjamin said, “Or take me go with you. I can help you,“ Benjamin said.  Yes, that is what he said, but WHY. What is he feeling and why?

Benjamin’s feeling is he feels worried about Geronimo and he doesn’t want Geronimo to go away.

4. Do you think Geronimo wants Thea and Trap to come or does he want to go alone? Why?

I think Geronimo wants Thea and Trap to come because Geronimo said that he always  went on adventures together. If Thea and Trap do not go with him it wouldn’t be the same without them. Great!

5. What are some of the things that Geronimo is scared about having to do on his own in the mountains?

He thinks that his tail could freeze right off and he is headed for a dangerous territory.