It's Raining

Today 31st May 2011, two in the afternoon I was at Zaman Library waiting for Chhay Hak and Meta to go somewhere with them. I said; it is a raining, but they still ignore my sentence. I saw the rain in the other region but arrive our region soon. I don’t like raining seasons and I hate being wet in the middle of the rain. I feel more comfortable and warm at home or in the car when there is raining. My friend, Hak said to me today, are you salt that melt because of water. I’m not salt that melt because of water. However, I’m the one who afraid walked through the rain and made myself wet because of rain. There is the story behind, and I’m going to share this story:

In 7th grade, there is a classmate studied at Chinese school with me. She also studied at Khmer high school at the same grade with me but different class. I often walked with her when leaved school as her home is at the same direction to mine. I liked to walk with her even though it rained, and it was fun. Although I, my text books, and my note books are wet, I still wanted to walk with her through the rain. As time pass by, I began to change. I’m not walked her home anymore in 8th grade. I have other friends, and I enjoyed riding their motors. I was foolish or crazy to leave that girl, and I would never knew that it was the end as I have no second chance to walk with her in the rained.

After 9th grade, I leave my Chinese school also Khmer public high school to an international school. I began to miss that girl, but I still forgot her when I met new friends. One occasion that I shocked when I received a message from my old friend, he told me that the girl had died. In the age of 18, she died because of cancer. Now, I realized that I miss it; there is no second chance, for me to walk in the rain with her. So this is the reason that I hate walk through the rain because I don’t want to walk alone, and I’m going to miss someone.

This is not involved to any of my opinion that I want to share, but this is an ordinary story about me and a mysterious girl, and it’s the honest story I want to share. It all about the feeling I have toward rain.

My 10th Grade Teacher, Ms. Bo

My 10th grade teacher was Ms. Bohlender Heather. Although, she just a volunteered teacher but she is an example of the ideal teacher because she had struggling through her life in a very hard time. She is a Seventh-day Adventist Christian. I like to read her blog, and it inspired me because she shared the honest things, about her story. She was an English and Drama teacher, and she appointed me to act like Jesus Christ. After that, all my classmates laughed and teased me, a little eyes jesus. I still remembered the happy time that we shared in class, and sometime she sang and danced for us. I feel no pressure at her class; instead, attended her class is the most relaxed in all subjects. There is an accident occurred while she lived in Cambodia, Phnom Penh city. She met a terrible time, and she got hit by a car. She still not giving up but continued to go on to the future. I still remembered the day at Chapel; she gave her speech with her tear about Cambodia. She told all students about what is going on to her in Cambodia, and I quieted and listened. I feel the story that she talked is very touched my heart. She said that the time that I feel safe is being with all you guys. Finally, she wrote a book, Honestly I’m Struggling. This book is the book that I want to read I have no chance to read this book yet because it printed in United State, but I will in the future.

 

Bible and Me

I have a book called Bible or Holy Bible. Some of my friends think it is ridiculous because I’m not a Christian. Many friends still suspect and keep asking me, are you a Christian? The answer is no. The next sentence that I want to continue is I’m not a Christian that read Bible. Now I want to talk about what is bible, and why I read it.

According to Christian, they believe Bible is the Holy Scripture or the words of God to people from the day that God created the earth. The holy bible divided into two parts, The Old Testament and The New Testament. The Old Testament had 39 difference books, and The New Testament had 27 difference books. Therefore, the whole Bible had 66 books differently that refer to God. The actual matter is the story behind the mystery book, at first Bible is in Hebrew language. It was forbidden to translate into English or other languages by pope. In history, there are many people tried to translate the Scripture to English so that more people can read and understand by themselves. However, some people got killed because of translating the bible such as John Huss and William Tyndale. The suffer persecution does not threaten people from translating the words of God into English; instead, it’s inspired people to translated this book into English.    

Reason that I read this book first is just to learning English. I’m poor in English, and my teacher suggested that I should read the Holy Scripture. I did not know about the Holy Scripture at the time. However, I didn’t hesitate to buy bible. Moreover, I bought two books of bible, in Khmer language and English. In recently, I found the interested of this book because some of the topic taught us to have faith in God. At this point, it also taught us to have faith in others too. Moreover, the meaning of this book is to keep us to be simple and humble of what we have. Being proud, arrogant or haughty just jeopardize a friendship, or a relationship that we ever build. So far, I have learned these things from the black and mysterious book that some people think I shouldn’t read it.    

To wrap up, the black and mysterious book is the book of knowledge, and is full of wise advices. I don’t think that we have to be a Christian to read this book as I found it a good book to read.       

Rewind to My High School

            I study at Bak Touk high school at first, but later I transfered to Cambodia Adventist School. I feel nothing in Bak Touk high school, no memory that I want to mention. But Cambodia Adventist School is very different, it means a lot to me. I met new strangers there, they grew as my classmates, and leave as my friends.

Let begin with, I had done something wrong in Bak Touk highschool, and my parents decide to transfer me to CAS or Cambodia Adventist School. CAS is a very different high school that I ever knew. First of all, I thought it going to be a ridiculous idea to put me in a private Christian school while I’m not a Christian, but my parent didn’t hesitate to put me in this school. I began studied at 9^th grade, I met strangers in here and I never think that these strangers mean a lot to me in the future. After 9^th grade, I seem to get along with my classmates and some of us became friends already.

In 10^th grade, as a transferred student I am behind from other student in many things like English and Computer. They are expert in typing and writing in English, but I am still poor. However, some of my friends are willing to help. I can follow all of them in the mid of tenth grade as I began to have a good grade in class, I believe so. Although, some of us are became friends, but our class is not in one group. It seems like a class with differences groups because we aren’t cooperate with each others.

I don’t want to mention about my 11^th grade, so let go to my 12^th grade and it was my senior year of my high school. In my class, all of us aren’t friends yet, we just normal classmates as we still far apart from each others. But I can tell that after a trip to Jom Bok Hos, at January 2010, we are like a strong team, a group of best friends. We cooperate and help each others. That trip is very unique to me, and it was the happiest time that I have with all my friends. There is no specific reason beside that training center at Jom Bok Hos, help us to care once another. Inside a place like forest, I believe it help us to become a team players. It like a Khmer proverb said, “In home difference mothers, but in forest the same mother.” Later on, we win the school’s Olympic game. At first, some other class look down to my class as most of our classmates’ physical appearance is weaker than them. But we win and have the champion as we cooperate, we just like a group of ant that never afraid of an elephant. That’s because we learn to become one team, at Jom Bok Hos.

Cambodia Adventist helps me to meet my friends that I never forget. Although, I have argued or stop talking with some friends but so what, they are still my friend in my heart. We already shared our happy and sad time together, it can’t be changed, it already gone or pass, but it stills an unforgettable memory. Finally, we are the real CAScade for Cambodia Adventist School.  

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Portfolio Projects

     As a student of Zaman University, I have to join in a portfolio project that I interested in and would work hard for that project. Therefore, in this prep school period I have to join four portfolios projects. The four portfolio projects that I joined are English Literature, The News, Famous People, and Blog.

     

     My first project is English Literature’s portfolio, it all about English, how can I learn to write, listen, and read English. The instructor that I have been working with was Mr. Lance Chase, from United State of America. I remembered that I had to write an essay that asking eights question and a final presentation inside the class. The eights question asking about, my background of English learning, my old school, activities, what I like about the activities, what I dislike about the activities, my strategies of learning English, what types of learner am I and why. These eights question in the final presentation made me received 98%. I aim 100% when I doing anything but I feel satisfy with this score as I had done it perfectly but there are some mistake that I made in the Powerpoint. One remarkable thing is that when I present about my strategies, it draw the attention of all the people inside the classroom because my strategy of learning English is reading the Bible, instead of reading other books I read Holy Bible while I’m not a Christian.    

     Second portfolio is The News; I would describe it as the hard task that I have involved in all the projects. As I have to research about the news every week and present it at conference hall with my Powerpoint design about the topic that I choose. Moreover I received many hard questions from the audiences especially my instructor, Mr. Terence Mallon. He always asked a hard question at the end of the presentation, but it helped me to be well preparing before I presented my topics. On the other hands, I am nervous when I was standing alone on the stage of the conference hall and lecture about the news that I have chose. First topic that I choose is BRICS, the association of five countries. 

Second topic is about Facebook, risk or useful. I explain the term of use of Facebook and several law suits that people have done wrong by post something on Facebook, in this topic I also recommend other students to choose their privacy setting, and the term of uses.     

Third week, I talk about Facebook but the title: "Is Facebook Worth $50billion?" In this topic, I had answer the question of my own title and the answer is yes, because Facebook has support from Goldmanch Sachs Bank, and Digital Sky Technology, the biggest investor in Russia. This is the best title that I had done.  

Fourth week, I present about China and raise the title as, "China: Victory without War". In this topic I mention the strategy of the government of this country have. 

The week after I wrote about the suicide bombed at Russia's International Airport. 

The sixth week, I present about world economic forum, I play a video about something inside the world economic forum. 

The final week, I don't have the chance to choose the topic, but my instructor will do for every students. Then final my topic is about a journalist in Vietnam, and he died because of burning from chemical. 

By these seven topics, I have receive 100%, I feel it is fair if compare to what I had done for these seven weeks. 

     

     Third project, the Famous People Project. In this project I work with Mr. T. K. First of all, I though it was the easy project but later I found it hard when Mr. Oudom, taught us about Citation, and give reference of the articles that we take from the internet. Moreover, I have to present about two famous people that we know and like about them. I also explain about the great contribution of those people to the world. First person that I present is, King Suryavarman II. 

Second person that I present, Benjamin Franklin. 

In this project, I receive only 75%. I can't say for sure why I receive only this much, finally I decide that point is not real matter. The real matter is that I really put my hard to do my project, and I work hard for it. For this project, maybe I did wrong in some place. 

     Finally, the final project that I going to work is Blogging with Mr. James. I feel interested in this project after I talk with him about his portfolio in this final quarter. I think I'm also the first person that sign up in this portfolio. Some people think it is easy, and many students have sign up in this project. I can tell that this project is not easy like what you think, don't under estimate of the project. We have to write and comment weekly, it's not only for Zaman University but it is world wide. Consequently, I decide to link this  to my Facebook's profile information so that all my friend on Facebook can see my blog. This is my first article and I can tell that every body that I mean it, I do it seriously and carefully as I already prepare for this project.  

     To sum up, I just want to clarify that these four project are helping me to my future. As I have work with four very differences instructors. All of them have there way of teaching, moreover they can represent as four different audiences that I have show to them, my project. The differences that they have, help to my  knowledge as finally I realize that we have to do thing carefully because our audiences or instructor are judge on us. 

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I hope that everyone will enjoy my blog and it all about me. I will post various articles that it going to be about national, international's issue or some ordinary topics but in my own perspectives. I like being worldwide in hoping that I will gain different point of views from different continents in the world.

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Chheang Sear Lim