The Cambodia Rural School Project
The Miyazaki Honten School
Chun Meng Hang, a fourth grade student (May, 2001)
Chor Phal is 14 years old. She is in the fourth grade at the Miyazaki Honten School, and is raked 15th in her class. Her parents are farmers.
| On her family: | ” I have three brothers and three sister. My eldest sister Khnon is married. My eldest brother Chay stopped studying in the third grade because he now goes far from the house to look for fish to sell and eat. My next brother Chan stopped studying in the third grade because he became a monk. My next sister Han who is 19 years old stopped studying in the second grade because my mother wanted her to go find fish. My next sister Hay who is 19 years old also stopped studying in the second grade because my mother wanted her to go find fish, too. My youngest brother Chieng is 8 years old and studies in the first grade at this school “.
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| On her new school: | “I like the new school building very much because it is easy to study there. The old school was very hot inside “.
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| On her subject: | “I like studying Khmer because it has many different stories and pictures. I do not like mathematics because I do not understand it.”
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| On her hobbies: | “Besides studying I like to sell bananas. When I meet my friends I like to read because reading provides knowledge.”
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| On her future: | “When I grow up I want to be a teacher because I want to teach the next generation of Cambodians.” |
