December is a pretty name, and in this month I got to do something I always wanted to do for along time! Finally, I got selected to be one of the volunteers on an eye-sight mission with the collaboration from the Khmer Sight Foundation. We went to a village around Kondal province. When arrived at the scene, I saw many old people and I was feeling happy that they really care about their eyes/health. Through this mission, I get to learn how to do eye-test using the E strategy, and help those elders. It feels amazing to have helped those people because with this project, those elders would be able to see clearly again.
On a Sunday afternoon I did a Photoshop workshop with one of our facilitators. I learned how to do basic photo editing using white balance, photo filter, curves, exposure, saturation and other tools! Here are a few photos I edited!
This is year on November 10th, we were celebrating the Liger Independence Day 2017! This is the 2 years anniversary of the day the Cambodia ministry stated that Liger students will pass automatically without taking the grade 9 and 12 exams. That day we played so many games and having a bike tour from the Bike Business Exploration. At the end of the day, everyone were so tired and I was so glad to learn more about rural Phnom Penh from the Exploration.
Basketball is one of my favourite sports. I practice basketball every Monday from 4:20pm – 5:20pm. Often, in a game, I am the passer or the shooter. I let my other teammates dribble the ball because they have a better control. In this ASE, the coach (Jeff) help us to practice our passing, shooting, and dribbling skills. At the end of the practice, we would have a game together, usually it’s 5 on 5. Sometimes, we have a competition with other school at the end of the year or on Parents Day.
It’s that time of year again, where the ISPPMUN returned. This year, I wasn’t one of the delegates though, I was a part of the press team. I took this opportunity to practice my photography skill and to meet new people. I spent most of my times walking into different committees to take pictures and to see the debates. I also created a short film summarizing the whole event, and it got shown at the end of the ending-ceremony. It was hard for me to make the video because I have to record everything every day and edited it at the same time. However, I was happy because I get to share my creativity and my passion in filmmaking.
Below are some photos I’ve taken at the conference.
One of the main topics that we were focusing on in Literacy class is Coming of Age. Students were able to write something about themselves in approximately 7 weeks. It was hard on what to choose, but I decided to write about my family. In this lesson, I got to write about what I felt and read some of my friends’ stories. It was truly inspiring and I found out that everyone has a unique story. This essay is kind of personal to me, and I hope you won’t criticise this. Please click here to read my first draft.
I was in a group of 4 people to do a navigating project around Phnom Penh. Our teacher set up 3 missions for us to complete in only 3 hours. We were out in the city without any adult with us. These are the three following missions:
Waseem need two ‘mpu6050 gyroscopes with 3-5 input voltage”. Find and purchase them.
Take photos/videos of Boden/White Building
Matt would like to be able source raw chickpeas beans. He is having a hard time finding them. Every store sell canned chickpeas, but it much harder, to find raw chickpeas. Figure out where they are sold and what the unit cost is.
Through this experience, I felt more comfortable walking around the city without any adult with me. I know how to bargain better with my friends than if I were alone because my friends could help me with negotiating the person. Walking around the city, to find stuffs isn’t easy. I learned to do more research, talk to people face to face or contact them by making phone calls. Another thing that our teacher taught us that I found interesting was the pattern of the street in Phnom Penh. At last I also know a little better on how to use the map to find our destination and where we at. Another thing I was really happy about was that, we get to give those material/information to our learning facilitators that needed it. I also get to make a video since I love making videos! I think doing this had help me a lot and it’s a great way of teaching because the students were able to face real life challenges/situations.
If you wanted to read a little bit more about our process/adventure, please click here!
The first Exploration I was participated in year 6 of Liger was a “Dinosaurs in Cambodia” Exploration. In this class, we were trying to discover whether there are dinosaurs footprints in Battambang. It was such an exciting topic because we are the first Cambodian students to do research about the tracks. I wasn’t available when the team went to Battambang but there were a few activities that they did to examine the tracks. They did casting with clay and plaster of paris. They walked around the site to see more footprints and they also did a small interview around the village to know whether Cambodian believe in dinosaurs. In class, we tried to identify the footprints by measuring the size, looking for traits that match with the real dinosaur footprints, making hypothesis, and sketching a rough draft of the footprints. At the end we sent that report with those possible information to paleontologists from different countries. After many research and analysis, we think it’s possible that those footprints are real. The Exploration is ended but we are continuing it during the expertise time which is one hour per week. We hope to go back to site in order to deeply examine the tracks.
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This is one of the classes that I was participated in the first round of Expertise. I got to learn how to use the recording material and different types of sound effect. In this class, we did some filming, and then using the recording material afterward to create an audio and then add it to the video. Please look at this to see one of our samples.
