KEUNFAST worldwide

The spring now starts to show off the beauty of the colorful flower in various places. As the time for flower viewing, call Hanami, is soon approaching, Sakura flower is always the most beautiful one in Japan. The flower is so special in different ways for Japanese people, leading to various romantic and cool songs attached to the memory of love and souvenir under Sakura flower trees, especially during the spring season. The view of the flower also rocks my heart to everlasting meaningful souvenir that I have with the view since the first time that I arrived Japan, especially, when I saw Sakura blooming so beautifully. To its great charm, Sakura has a few different colors, which consists of pink, pink-red, white-pink, and white. When the flower starts to bloom, the trees appeal with the wonderful excited view to the viewers, especially, the big clusters of whole tree flower, that no leaves to see besides the all-side flower. Don’t you thing it is such great to see the flowers on the big trees without any leaves at all, and lasting for about two weeks? In addition, there are thousands of such Sakura trees, growing in all the corners and along the side of streets in the cities here, which looks so excited to see such cloud of flowers. Thus, Japanese cities charm countless visitors to view during spring here. Since there are lots of Sakura trees in rows and in all the site of parts of my cities here, people can enjoy and feel the wonderful time during Hanami (flower viewing season). Also, the most famous place for touring and viewing flower is in Kyoto, which is the oldest city, in terms of culture, architecture, and resorts, especially, flowers in both spring and autumn, where there are lasting fames for tourists to visit, in which as a site in my schedule whole-year diary for my visit soon. Here are some of the first Sakura blooming in my city. Let enjoys viewing them from some photos here!

White sakura at the gate of my International Residence where I stayed.

Sakura at the corner of my University gate.

 

The view of the flower along the way near my apartment.

 

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.