Cambodian Home Cooking Foods

These are Cambodian home cooking foods.

The name of the foods are from the left Khmer style salad (Nhoim), Chha Tro Koun, Chha Sandek baraing and Khor, and Chha Khjei respectively.

Summer Vacation is coming!

Summer courses passed by pretty quickly. Today is the last day of my semester exams. I feel very relaxed after completing all the tests. From now on, I will have a two-month summer vacation, so that I will spend it in Cambodia together with my families. It could be said that this is the longest holiday for me to stay in Phnom Penh since I came to study in Japan. Right now, I don't want to think about anything elses besides looking forward to heading for Cambodia and seeing my daughter there!!! She must have grown bigger now......

Pictures at Itabashi Daiichi Junior High School

These are the photos I just received from the teacher at Itabashi Daiichi Junior High School who promised to send to me the other day.

Party with Cambodian Friends

I was just back from the party at Brother Sam Ang's house in Tokyo. It was my first time to go there to have a party with other Cambodian students and enjoyed with various kinds of delicious foods. Though some of them I just met for the first time, they are really good company. We made fun by teasing each other, and brother Theavin was the one who made the party really come alive with his thousand of jokes. Everybody just couldn't stop laughing and stayed awake the whole night.

Itabashi Daiichi Junior High School

This morning, I went to Itabashi Daiichi Junior High school to teach second year students there, the lecture is called "Cultural Exchange Program". This time was quite different from the previous ones because of huge number of students and teachers (120 students and their 6 teachers) were combined into one class at the gymnasium to listen to my presentation. In response to the request of the school, I've talked about Cambodian culture, people's life styles and manner, and the world heritage "Angkor Wat", the condition of Cambodia's current economic development and the process of landmine removal. It was a long lecture I had provided, and those students and teachers seemed to be very enthusiastic about what I had presented. During the lecture, the school teacher also took photos and video, and promised to send some to me later. I was a bit tired after finishing the presentation and answering the questions from the floor. When I managed to return home, the school principal warmfully invited me to have lunch together with their students. It was very nice to be able to have a meal with them.

Niigata Earthquake

This morning there was earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 rocked a wide area of Niigata Prefecture. I feel very sorry to hear about that and feel pitty for people living in Niigata since the same prefecture was hitted by a severe quake once in October 23th, 2004. The earthquake had caused electronic power failure, water and gas pipes have ruptured in many areas of the prefecture. So far, there have been 6 people killed and over 700 injured.　There are many people leaving home to the evacuation areas. I want to know how Cambodian students living in Niigata are, so I called to one of my friend there. At first, she didn't picked up the phone and I was so worried about her. After many tries, Luckily, I finally can get through, and I am very glad to hear that her family and she are doing fine. As for others, I got a mail from Cambodian Student Association that none of Cambodian students there was suffered by the disaster. I wish those evacuees could return their home a.s.a.p.