The Cambodia Rural School Project
The Phnom Touch Nippon
Foundation School
Lanh Em is a 16-year-old fourth grade student at the Phnom Touch Nippon Foundation School.
She was ranked eighteenth in her class of 43 students
| On herself:
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I have a brother and a sister. My younger brother is studying here with me, while my older sister stays at home. My parents are both farmers. Our house is about 150 meters away from here.
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| On the new building:
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I’m very pleased because I’ve got new and more friends here. The old school was far away from here as well–eight kilometers. On a bike, the trip to school took about half an hour. The old building had a tiled roof. I only had a few friends there. Nobody liked the old building, so few came to study there.
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| Favorite subject:
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Math, because it’s easy to do multiplications, additions, and subtractions.
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| If she could wish for anything:
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I would wish for more school equipment for the students here, like rulers, pencils, pens, notebooks, and chalk.
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| In the future:
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I want to be a farmer because I want to do what my parents are doing.
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| On her summer vacation:
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I will bring water and cook rice. I’ll also be watering the vegetables and finding food for our pigs.
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| If she could travel anywhere
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I’d go to Pailin; I’ve never been there. I want to see it once. I would visit the hanging bridge there. My cousin used to live there and she’d told be about it.
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