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Creative Writing

Creative writing is one of my expertise classes for this first term. Each week, we were focusing on different types of writing, such as poems and short stories with different themes and topics. It was quite hard for me at first, however, later on, I’m getting better and better with my write. I got fewer grammar mistakes and get to improve my vocabularies usage. Below is one of my essays that I did about the year of 2563 where I need to include of some the vocabularies such as, space station and distribute.

 

“Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen! I just have a quick…surprise… announcement and I’m sure y’all will love it!” declaimed the space station director.

Everyone is all looking surprised and giving the director their attention.

“Every single of you have worked so hard for our latest mission to distribute the water supplies to Mars. I am really impressed by your hard work to make this a really big success. So, you all will have a 2 month holiday starting from tomorrow. And…yet, please don’t forget to come back our incredible, impressive, marvelous scientists! Thank you and good luck!” continued Mr. Aldrich with pride toward all of his staff.

Here it begins…….

“It is now 5:59 AM and my journey will begin in a minute,” said Cathy with excitement.

Oops! By the way, I haven’t introduced myself yet. Ummm….so here it goes!

“Hi! I’m Cathy, 27-year-old. I am a scientist who is currently working at NASA space station. As a scientist, I also like going on adventures on my own. Fun fact, I’ve got this one weird habit which is…I really like wearing dark lipsticks. Moreover, I was born with this special power where I could transform into whatever I want but sadly only for 30 minutes,” greetings by our beloved Cathy.

The mysterious wood…..

It’s almost noontime, but this mystery is still as dark as ever. The sound of the wind keeps whispering stronger and stronger in my ears. However, Cathy has no idea what will she get from this mysterious wood adventure because just come without any plan.

“Are you tired now, Major?” asked Cathy to her white horse. Major seem tired but he continues the adventure anyway.

Finally, she comes to a stop for a rest and hearing the beautiful voices of a multitude of birds singing with the trees blowing as its rhythm. With those beautiful voices, it had made Cathy fell asleep for awhile.

As she wakes up, the wood only getting darker and darker. The wood seems to be creepy and creepier, but that didn’t bring Cathy into fear. She carries on her adventure and keeps wishing to see something cool and mysterious.

Eventually, she had come to another stop. Cathy wondered, “Why is this book laying down here?” She continued, “There’s must be someone used to come here and bring this book here.”

Right after she finished talking, she saw a shadow running quickly in front of her.

“Who are you? Can you hear me? Why are you here? Please come.” said Cathy while knuckling her hands with scary looking.

No matter how much she tried to scream, there is no reply so she decided to give up on that. Afterward, Cathy begins to open the book slowly with a mind full of questions. She has no idea what will the book talk about and she has no idea what is happening to her at that moment.

“Whaaaaat!!!??? Wo wo wo…wooow! Is this book just magically open by itself?” said Cathy which shocked and can’t believe what did she just saw. Suddenly, the wood had gone so quiet. There’s no more Cathy voice, there’s no more the voices of the birds and there’s no more sound of the wind blowing.

Here it comes 2563……

“What’s happening? What is this place? Why am I here? Where am I?” said Cathy with confusion. Then, she starts to get up and explore in this new place, which is called, “Future time, The Year of 2563.”

After a long walk, she eventually finds out that she is actually living in the future. Where there are no trees, no more different nationalities, no one she knew and it’s the whole full of technology. Everyone is living in peace, no wars, no racism, no criticism and everyone has equal right. Every single thing in this new world was made out of modern technology like those lipsticks, horses and books buildings.

“I knew no one here, how am I gonna live here? I wanna go back to 2017,” cried Cathy.

Living separately from her family, friends and her favorite is really hard. Day by day, Cathy only thinking about of going back to the past like a crazy person. However, no matter how much she’s trying to think, there’s just no way for her to turn back in time. Instead, she just tries to adapt to the world she is currently living in. Moreover, her lifestyle had changed a lot, where she has to be all fancy.

Cathy blaming herself, “Is there any way that I can go back in time? Hmm…Cathy, you’re so stupid! Why would you open that book?”

“Oh, wait! I think…if I found that book, I could go back to 2017! But…how can I find it?” cried Cathy with depression.

Later on, she begins to walk around the city again. Cathy explores and checks building by building, but she still got no clue where the book could be. Finally, she’s here in front of the diamond building.

“This is the last building of this whole city, Cathy, I know you can find it. It’s here, it’s must be here.” Cathy whispered to herself.

Floor by floor, she couldn’t find it, no matter how hard tried. Cathy said with confidence, “Yes! I finally here on the rooftop. It must be somewhere here.” Again, she begins to look for that book and…surprisingly…she got it.

“Oh my god! It’s here. Yessssss!!! Wooo Whooo! I got it back now!!! I can go back to 2017 now!!!!” screamed Cathy with joyfulness. After getting the book, she immediately opens it up and hoping that it will bring her back to the past.

“1, 2, 3!” whispered Cathy while starting to open her eyes.

“Wait, what is this place? Aren’t I supposed to be in 2017?” wondered Cathy.

“Oh, what? Is it a dinosaur era? Let’s me flip the book again,” shocked Cathy after seeing Supersaurus far across in front of her.

I am back……

The house seems so silent and everything is such a mess without Cathy. However, she is now back to her home and there she is; lying on the bed like a dying person. Everything is back to what it used to be. Cathy is now back at work again as a scientist.

Cathy to her scientist friends, “Hello guys and gals!”   

Everyone is looking at her, greeting and they started to share about their holiday.

“So…it’s time for Cathy to share about her holiday. Cathy, what have you done for this 2 months break? Did you get a new car? New dorm? New everything?” said one of the men.

She explained, “If I’ll tell you what had happened to me, you wouldn’t believe me. Wouldn’t you?”

Everyone is begging her to reveal the truth with excitement. They are keep guessing, but unfortunately, no one gets it to the right answer.

Then, Cathy ended a conversation with just a simple answer. “You’ll find that out later.”  

 

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Khmer Sight Foundation Volunteering

The desire to change my country and help its people is hard. However, by joining many incredible opportunities as a volunteer will help that desire to come true. On Saturday 18th, November, a group 10 students (including me) were going to Camkids, Kampong Speu province as volunteers for Khmer Sight Foundation (KSF). KSF is a group of people including many doctors around the world, who are trying to help to protect the Cambodians’ eyes. 

Once we arrived, I observed that there are many people who had arrived since the early for the eyes checkup, but the doctors have not arrived yet. So, we just do what we can do such as organizing the seats for the patients, interview them about the problems with their eyes and did what the doctors told us. 

When the doctors arrived, we then assigned the number to the patients by asked them for their contact. Afterward, four of my friends and I were training of how to give the eyes test. At the start, I was so struggled of what should I do with the patients, like should I give the eye drop or not and what should I write in the report paper. Moreover, I have to explain the instruction to the patients which was so tired for me but I really enjoyed working with my elders and help to improve their eyes sight. After finishing doing the simple eyes test, the patients need to move to the next room where they talked to the doctors about the problems with their eyes. 

 

Finally, the doctors we discussed to choose the patients who will come to the hospital in Phnom Penh to get surgery. At the hospital, I had also learned how to precisely scan the eye that will need to do the surgery. Additionally, I also learned the different problems with the eyes and how will the surgery help with those issues. 

Of course, it has been a tired day for me and my friends. However,  I was so glad to be a part of the team and help my elders to have a good eyesight. If there is another opportunity like this, I would love to join again. 

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Halloween’s Story

During Halloween day, our literacy class had played a game where I first need to start to write the beginning of the story. Then, my paper will be distributed to the next person to continue the story until it gets back to me and I have to finish the story.

 

As I carefully entered the haunted house, the door shut behind me and the creepy black cat came across. I wasn’t shocked. Suddenly, there’s a sound of a female ghost singing the spooky music to her newborn baby. When I turn to my left, there’s a death sign with a blood falling down like an ocean that leads me to another path.

I slowly open the door, and I see a bunch of rotten pumpkins. It was gross, but I decided to get close to it to see if there something interest. As I went closer and closer… “BOOM!” I can hear in exploded voice from nowhere. I was too panic to run away, so I slip into the hole. And, there was an evil witch looking straight at me.

All I remember was her enormous blood-shot eyes sticking out of its sockets. Her curly wormy looking brows, dancing, weirdly across her wrinkled forehead. Her blood sucking pointed teeth shining brightly in front of me.

Her tentacles that were all polished up, nicely. She had 2 mouths. One for speaking, one for bloody sucking. Her tentacles got longer and longer. Closer and closer to me and grabbed me lightly. I tried escaping but I don’t have legs. She quickly and forcefully rolled me closer……..for a hug.

Suddenly, there’s a freaking dolphin appeared in front of me with a human’s arms and legs. I have no better choice than to run to the kitchen to stop the dolphin from eating my cake.

I asked the dolphin, “Why you eat my cake?”

The dolphin replied, “It a prank bro! There’s camera here! Camera there! You just got pranked bro.”

The dolphin continue by asking me more questions, “How do you feel man when you got pranked?”

I replied, “I feel pranked and trolled man!”

Then, I did not care at all about the prank because I was too tired and sleepy. So, I just go straight to my room and sleep peacefully until the late morning.

 

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Creative Technology

Creative technology is my first technology class for this year.  For the first few weeks of the class, we were doing many cool stuff with a simple coding such as trying to make the lights work by connecting it to the breadboard and Arduino board. Those were quite challenging for me, however, I manage to make it work by asking classmates and my teacher, Waseem. 

The next project is more challenging because we will need to create our own mini robot using the objects that we used for the last weeks of the class such as Arduino board. Since we work on this project in a smaller team, we have so many ideas for the designs. Just like in my team, we had to change our design multiple times until getting a right one that everyone wants. 

Below are some of the robot’s parts that will be printed by the 3D printer.  *Note these are not all our final design*

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Animation

My first exploration of this year was Animation. The goal of this exploration is to create short animations about anything. However, since animation is a subject that will take a lot of time to focus on, we had changed our goal.

From the start, I was thinking that I will do an animation and I will be using more and more technologies. However, the expectation wasn’t like the reality. In class, we spend most of our time focusing on different types of drawing such as caricature, characters design and perspective drawings. Also, we were learning about storyboards and how to design our background which is pretty difficult. 

Still life drawing

As an outcome, our class was divided into 4 groups and come up with a short 1-2 minutes story. After each group finished with the writing about the whole story, we started to create a storyboard of each important scenes. If we finished everything by time, we will make it into a short animation. 

STORY: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mAm00pW4hKotYqVddOty66wWQovnoxjCn3KOVECWRsE/edit?usp=sharing

 

 

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PSAT

Just a few weeks ago, in literacy class, we were preparing for our first reading and language use’s  practice SAT. We were doing taking this test on one of the most effective learning website, Khan Academy.

Our tips to on taking this test are to not stress out about the test. Nevertheless, we should start with reading the questions and the given choices first before we do because some of the questions don’t require us to read the whole passage to answer. One of the easier ways is to follow the process of elimination the answer choices. That mean, in each question there will be some obvious answer that is not something that the question wants, so we can eliminate that one out. Most importantly, we should check for the key words in each answer because one word can change the whole meaning of the answer choice.

Another important thing is that we should try to do all the questions even if we are not sure with the answer. After I took the test, I just realized that I left too many questions which will take out a lot of my points. However, if I were to do all of the questions even with guessing, I might have get some more points 

 

 

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AP Statistic

This year in math, about half of the senior cohort and I had taken the hardest course we ever took before. The course is AP Statistic, college level in term of math. It is really challenging for me because it does not only require me to know how to do the math but it also requires me to understand the context and using concise words to answer the question. Another challenge is to use the TI 8 calculator to construct the different type of graphs. Since I am a person who does not remember the steps well, so I got messed up a lot during the calculation practices. However, I really glad to be in this class where I got another opportunity to do something that cool, above my grade. 


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សន្ទរកថា

There are so many different types of speeches both in Khmer and English. In the past years, I had already learned a little about how to write speeches in an English version. So this year, start from the beginning of the year in Khmer class, we’re starting to learn how to write a professional version of speeches in Khmer. Below, is an example speech of opening a new school.   

  • ជាបឋម នាងខ្ញុំម្ចាស់សូមក្រាបថ្វាយបង្គំដល់ ព្រះថេរានុថេរៈ ទាំងពីរគណៈជាទីសក្ការៈ!
  • សូមក្រាបថ្វាយបង្គំ ព្រះករុណា ជាព្រះអង្គម្ចាស់ជីវិតតម្កល់លើត្បូង ព្រះករុណា ព្រះបាទសម្ដេច ព្រះបរមនាថ នរោត្តម សីហមុនី ព្រះមហាក្សត្រ នៃព្រះរាជាណាចក្រកម្ពុជា ជាទីខ្ពង់ខ្ពស់បំផុត!
  • សូមគោរព សម្ដេចអគ្គមហាសេនាធិបតីតេជោ ហ៊ុន សែន នាយករដ្ឋមន្រ្ដីនៃព្រះរាជាណាចក្រកម្ពុជា និង លោកជំទាវគតិប្រឹត្តបណិ្ឌត ប៊ុន រ៉ានី ហ៊ុន សែន ដែលជាប្រធានកាកបាទក្រហមកម្ពុជាជាទីគោរព!
  • សូមគោរពសម្ដេច ឯកឧត្តម លោកជំទាវ អ្នកឧកញ៉ា លោកឧកញ៉ា អគ្គរាជទូត រដ្ឋទូត លោក លោកស្រី អ្នកនាង កញ្ញា ព្រមទាំងភ្ញៀវកត្តិយសទាំងអស់ជាទីគោរព។
  • សូមគោរព មន្រ្តីរាជការ លោកតា លោកយាយ លោកគ្រូ អ្នកគ្រូ លោកពូ អ្នកមីង និងបង ប្អូន សិស្សានុសិស្សទាំងអស់ដែលមានវត្តមាននៅទីនេះជាទីមេត្រី។

ថ្ងៃនេះ ជាថ្ងៃមហាដ៏មហា នក្ខត្តឫក្ស ឧត្ដុង្គឧត្ដម បំផុត ទូលបង្គំពិតជាមានភាពសោមន្សរីករាយខ្លាំង និងមានកត្តិយសជាទីបំផុត ដែលបានចូលរួមនៅក្នុងកម្មវិធី ដ៏ឧឡារិក្សមួយនេះ។ នាងខ្ញុំម្ចាស់សូមសម្ដែង នូវមនោសញ្ចេតនា រំភើប រីករាយ ប្រកបទៅដោយតញ្ញូតាធម៍ដ៏ជ្រាលជ្រៅបំផុត ដែលមានវត្តមានរបស់ ព្រះករុណា ព្រះបាទ ព្រះបរមនាថ នរោត្តម សហមុនី យ៉ាងខ្ពង់ខ្ពស់ជាទីសក្ការៈ ដែលបានចូលរួម ជាអធិបបតីភាព ក្នុងការប្រារព្ធកម្មវិធីសម្ភោធ សាលាអន្តរជាតិឡៃហ្គ័រ ដែលមានទីតាំងស្ថិតនៅ ភូមិចំពុះក្អែក សង្កាត់ព្រែកថ្មី ខណ្ឌមានជ័យ រាជធានីភ្នំពេញ ដែលជាអំណោយដ៏ថ្លៃថ្លារបស់ លោកត្រេវឺរ ហ្គីល (Trevor Gile) និង លោកស្រី អាចនិសីកា ដែលជាអ្នកផ្ដួចផ្ដើមគំនិតបង្កើតសាលាអន្តរជាតិឡៃហ្គ័រនេះឡើង។

នាងខ្ញុំពិតជាមានចិត្តសោមន្សរីករាយ ត្រេកអរជាខ្លាំង ដោយបានទទួល បាន អំណោយ ដ៏មហិមានេះ។ សាលាអន្តរជាតិឡៃហ្គរ័មានអគារសិក្សាសំរុបចំនួន២ខ្នង។ ក្នុង នោះអគារទី១ មានបន្ទប់រៀនចំនួន ៤បន្ទប់សំខាន់ៗ រួមទាំងនោះមានដូចជា ថ្នាក់អក្សរសាស្រ្តខ្មែរ ថ្នាក់គណិតវិទ្យា ថ្នាក់រូបវិទ្យា និងថ្នាក់អក្សរសាស្រ្តភាសាអង់គ្លេស។ មិនតែប៉ុណ្ណោះ នៅក្នុងអគារទី២ រួមមានបន្ទប់ពិសោធន៍វិទ្យាសាស្រ្ត បន្ទប់នវកម្ម បន្ទប់វិស្វកម្ម និង បន្ទប់រចនាកំព្យូទ័រ។ អ្វីដែលអស្ចារ្យនោះគឺ ក្រៅពីមានអគារសិក្សាដ៏ល្អផូរផងនោះ សាលាអន្តរជាតិឡៃហ្គរ័ក៏មាន ទីកន្លែងស្នាក់នៅសម្រាប់លោកគ្រូ អ្នកគ្រូដែលមានសញ្ជាតិផ្សេងៗពីគ្នាផងដែរ។ លើសពីនេះទៅទៀត សាលា ក៏មានទីកន្លែងស្នាក់នៅរបស់បុគ្គលិក និងគេហដ្ឋានរបស់សិស្សានុសិស្ស ចំនួន២កន្លែងថែមទៀតផង។

សាលាអន្តរជាតិឡៃហ្គរ័គឺជាសាលាក្រៅរដ្ឋាភិបាល ដូចនេះកម្មវិធីសិក្សារបស់សាលា មានភាពពីខុសគ្នាទៅនឹងសាលារដ្ឋ និង សាលាឯកជន។ លើសពីនេះទៅទៀតសាលាផ្ដល់អារហារូបករណ៍ដល់សិស្សានុសិស្សនៅទៅនេះទាំងអស់ ដូច្នេះសិស្សទាំងអស់មិនបាច់ចំណាយថវិកាអ្វីនោះទេ។ ចំណែកឯគោលដៅរបស់សាលាវិញ គឺចង់ឃើញសិស្សានុសិស្សនៅទីនោះ និងកូនខ្មែរជំនាន់ក្រោយ ធ្វើឲ្យប្រទេសរបស់ពួកគេ មានការអភិវឌ្ឍរីកចម្រើន។ ជាងនេះទៅទៀត សាលាក៏មានគោលបំំណងឲ្យសិស្សនៅទីនេះ ក្លាយជាពលរដ្ឋល្អក្នុងសង្គម ចេះគោរពមនុស្សជុំវិញ និងជួយអ្នកដទៃក្នុងគ្រាអាសន្ន។ អ្វីដែលអស្ចារ្យនោះគឺ សាលាមានការសិក្សាជបែបគម្រោង ដោយផ្ដល់ឪកាសដល់សិស្សានុសិស្សទាំងអស់ បានចុះកិច្ចសិក្សាទៅឯខេត្តនាៗនៃប្រទេសកម្ពុជា ហើយប្រទេសមួយចំនួនទៀតនៅក្នុងសកលលោក។

បើយើងក្រលេកទៅមើលចំនួនសិស្សានុសិស្សរបស់សាលាវិញ គឺមានត្រឹមតែ ១១០នាក់ប៉ុណ្ណោះដោយបែងចែកជា២ ជំនាន់ (ជំនាន់ទី១ និងជំនាន់ទី២)។ សិស្សជំនាន់ទី១ បានឲ្យនាមថា សិស្សច្បងដែលមានសិស្សចំនួន ៥០នាក់ និង សសិស្សជំនាន់ទី២ ដែលជាសិស្សប្អូនមានចំនួន ៦០។ ចំណែកឯកម្មវិធីសិក្សារបស់សិស្សទាំពីជំនាន់ក៏ខុសគ្នាណាស់ដែរ ដោយសិស្សជំនាន់ទី១ កំពុងសិក្សានៅក្នុងថ្នាក់ទី ១០ និងជំនាន់ទី២ សិក្សាក្នុងថ្នាក់ទី ៧។ ក្នុងមួយសប្ដាហ៍ សាលាមានការសិក្សាត្រឹមតែ ៥ថ្ងៃប៉ុណ្ណោះដោយមិនគិត ពីថ្ងៃសោរ៍និងថ្ងៃអាទិត្យ។ កាលវិភាគសិក្សាវិញ ក៏មានការមមាញឹកជាអានេក ដោយចាប់ផ្ដើមពីម៉ោង ៨ព្រឹកដល់ម៉ោង ១២ថ្ងៃត្រង់ និងបន្តនៅម៉ោង ១រសៀលរហូតដល់ម៉ោង ៤ល្ងាច។ យ៉ាងណាមិញ សាលាផ្ដោតទៅលើភាសាអង់គ្លេសជាគោល ដោយមុខវិជ្ជាភាគច្រើន ត្រូវឲ្យសិក្សាជាភាសាអង់គ្លេស។ ដោយដូចហេតុខាងលើ នោះហើយគឺជាប្រធានដើមចម ដែលធ្វើសិស្សនៅសាលានេះប្រើប្រាស់ភាសាអង់គ្លេសបានល្អ។

ប ពិត ព្រះករុណា ព្រះមហាក្សត្រ ជា ទី គោរព ដ៏ ខ្ពង់ ខ្ពស់ សម្ដេច ទ្រង់ ឯកឧត្ដម លោកជំទាវ លោក ឧកញ៉ា លោក លោកស្រី បង ប្អូន ប្រជាពលរដ្ឋ មន្ត្រី រាជការ លោកគ្រូ អ្នកគ្រូ និង ក្មួយ ៗ សិស្សានុសិស្ស ទាំង អស់។

ជាកិច្ចចុងក្រោយ និង ក្នុង ឱកាស ដ៏ វិសេសវិសាល ជា ប្រវត្តិសាស្ត្រ ក្នុងការ សម្ពោធ សាលាអន្តរជាតិឡៃហ្គ័រ នៅទីក្រុងភ្នំពេញនេះ យើងខ្ញុំ ព្រះករុណា សូម ថ្វាយ ព្រះ រាជ សព្ទសាធុការ ពរ បវរ មហា ប្រសើរ ថ្វាយ ព្រះករុណា ព្រះបាទ សម្តេច ព្រះ បរម នាថ នរោត្តម សីហមុនី ជា ទី គោរព សក្ការៈ ដ៏ ខ្ពង់ ខ្ពស់ បំផុត សូម ទ្រង់ ប្រកប ដោយ ព្រះ បរម សុខ ក្សេមក្សាន្ត ព្រះជន្មាយុ យឺន យូរ ព្រះ បញ្ញាញាណ ភ្លឺថ្លា ដើម្បី ដឹកនាំ ព្រះ រាជាណាចក្រ កម្ពុជា ឆ្ពោះ ទៅ កាន់ ភាព រីក ចម្រើន និង សម្បូរ រុងរឿង តរៀងទៅ។ សូម ថ្វាយ ប្រគេន និង ជូនពរ បវរ ប្រសើរដល់ សម្ដេច ព្រះអង្គ ឯកឧត្ដម លោកជំទាវ លោក ឧកញ៉ា លោក លោកស្រី សមាជិក សមាជិកា និង អង្គ ពិធី ទាំងមូល សូម ប្រកប ដោយពុទ្ធពរទាំង៤ប្រការ គឺ អាយុ វណ្ណៈ សុខៈ ពលៈ ជានិច្ច និរន្ត ត រៀង ទៅ។ សូមអរព្រះគុណ និងអរគុណ!