The Cambodia Rural School Project
The O Koki Kandal School
Choek Khoeun is a first-grade student at the O Koki Kandal School
| On himself: | I am ten years old. I have three brothers and one sister. All of them go to school with me. My parents are both farmers. They grow rice and also cut bamboo and make cages [used for catching fish]. They often go into jungle to fish. Our house is 1200 meters away from the school. I walk to school every day.
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| On the new building: | I am very happy. I have never studied in a school like this. Teachers there are good, too.
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| Favorite subject: | I like Khmer because I like reading. I can also write well. My least favorite subject is social studies. I don’t understand it.
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| On his spare time: | I work in the fields: I cut grasses and help plant rice. I also till the soil for the vegetables. Otherwise I like to play soccer with my friends. We usually play at school.
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I want to be a farmer and plant rice.
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| If he could travel anywhere: | I would go to my father’s ‘homeland’: the Siem Reap province. |
