KEUNFAST worldwide

The trip of NIE graduate to Siem Reap in March 02-05 2007, which I also joined during the trip this time, even made me so keepsakeful and proud to share the nice picture here. Plus, the nice party at every time during the trip. It was such a wonderful time that everyone enjoy and build up the great souvenir in life. The period of the trip last in only several days, but what is stayed behind forever is sweet souvenir, with the evidence of pictures, loveing, and friendship forever…

Students and the professor viewing the temple

Viewing and listening to the tour guide at Bantey srey

NIE director and boards viewing at Bayon temple

NIE director with madam and the graduate trainees at Bantey Srey

Viewing various temples activities

Other foreign tourists at Elephant fighting ground

Some visitors at Angkor Wat, from bahind the temple

Lunch time activity at Baray Tek Tlar, in Siem Reap

Some group photo of NIE boards with the graduates

Breafast, Lunch, and dinner time for the graduate at the nice eating house

Dancing party at night

Time for Khmer traditional dancing

Time for disco

The workshop building of The National Institute of Education (NIE) has been established and hornored to open for use during the opening ceremony, on March 1st, by the prime minister of Cambodia, Samdech Hun Sen and Lok Chum Teav. The new building is equipped with mass participant room, translation room, and more modern directory rooms. The mass room can house participants around 1500 people with standardized chairs. The building was donated to be built by Ouknha Mong Rithy and Lok Chum Teav, under the recommendation from the Cambodian priminister. The new wrokshop building is frontly decorated by the newly attractive garden with nice benchs along the way.

 

 

New workshop building at NIE on the opening day.

 

 

In March the Teacher Across Border expert from the USA, Prof. Mill Kelly, came to conduct a workshop at NIE, which provide a useful modern knowledge relating to the use of ICT in teaching and learning. The workshop provide a topic of using blog to assist in teaching and learning among teachers and students, where the participants during the workshop included staff from NIE, some teacher trainee from NIE, and those from PUC too. . The knowledge from the workshop enable the participants to make their own blog and embrace the new knowledge of using the blog to assist in their teaching, especially, in the mean of digital learning and distance learning. Through the use of blog teacher can store many sites and sources of useful documents including video and photos as documentary for the students search and refer to during their course. In addition, teacher can post home work or assignment for the students to do at anytime and anywhere.The environment of the workshop was smoothly conducted and successfully achieved the objective, yet the internet service was quite slow which participants had not time to practice during the workshop. However, they had plenty of time to practice during the afternoon and evening at the interenet cafe in stead.

The Professor who lectured during the workshop was quite young, but in a very talented explaination and skillful background of using the blog in the content of teaching. We all participant hope to have such workshop providing more variety knowledge to the staff at NIE to be able to learn new knowledge and help to develop NIE to be more developed in the soon future.

 

Here are some views from the workshop.

 

 

 

 

A souvernir from NIE director delivered to the TAB professor.

A souvenir from the professor to NIE director.

Today is the first day for the political propaganda conducted by each political party nominated as the party in the election list for 2008. The even this morning show the mass amount of people holding flags and shouting on the moto or mini van decorating with big photo of each party leader representing each political party to be competed for the coming national election in 2008. There are lots of security police guarding cotiously all along the way that the election propaganda took place. This event will go on until one day before the election for the commune start. There are big political parties that show the crowd of their supporters along the way, such as CPP, SRP, and FCP. When I was sitting in a restaurant eating yummy KUY TEAV, I saw there are queus of cars and motos with flags and posters denouncing the ideas and promise to attract the people’s belief, too.

My visit in Phnom Penh so far

Hello my beloved friends,

It has been quite a brief of time that I haven’t been in touch of writing and posting new update from me. The reason seems to be so simple that even you could understand why it is so if I tell you in advance that I am now have been visiting my home country and being in touch with lots of tuff schedule of mine. It is really relaxing and exciting in many ways to see my home country again after being away for quite long time, nearly full 1 whole year.

Firstly, soon after I arrived at the Phnom Penh International Airport I was too delighted to see lots of my family and relative came to pick me up from the airport to my home. There were moment of mix feeling that is memerable to describe and to long to remember for my in the whole life. Plus, the first travel in Phnom Penh to my home made me full of excitement to see both new views and some still remaining views along the road that I used to travel everyday to my university.

Secondly, soon the next day after I visit my targeted distinguished people and respected people for some souvenir delivery, I had a great chance to visit Siem Reap for the mass size trip for 4 days and 3 nights. The trip was the one What was so extra ordinary I could hardly describe in enough aspects of exictement and joy of the trip was that it was a second time that I had that kind of trip to Siem Reap again. This time the number of companions to the trip with are total up to 700 people, which surprised along the way to Siem Reap with the que of 14 long size buses to the destination. No need to say, this kind of trip is usually happened only once of a person’s life. The joyment of the trip composed not only of the great views at the temples, but also Karaoke singing along the way, making jokes, and even dancing at the destination, which I considered as the best and most wonderful trip for me and all the companions. Those most wonderful events and souvernir were captured and made lasting keepsake through uncountable sweet memorable activities in digital cameras and video cameras.

Thirdly, I had a useful chance of collecting some important data as part of my research too, through interviewing school principals there. In addition, I had a great relax there for the fresh air and romantic natural view at the Baray, Pry Proh lake, and along the way go to and back to Phnom Penh.

Forthly, I have been visiting interesting resorts and else around Phnom Penh with my friends and family, which made my visit in Phnom Penh so far stay as a great keepsake for me eternally.

Finally, I havebeen involving more and more in the activity of workshop conducted in NIE by the TAB group from the USA for nearly a week, which just finish today. This made me have chance to communicate more professor from the states as well as building up more social network for me among friends, colleagues, etc.

Last but not least, I want to let you all who have been in touched often with me here, that now I am still in Phnom Penh, and will have to complete more works and make more great souvenir until the time that I have to go back to overcome all hardship to pursue my successful learning life in Japan.

Therefore, overally, please keep track the hear more update from me soon later.

Cheeeeeeeeeerrrrrrr………..