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On the 9th of March, 2015 I went to Pursat Province with Agriculture Group. Phearun and Mary were the facilitators. Below are my reflections for the trip.

Date	Reflection
9/3/15	Today is the first day of our trip to Pursat. It is also my first time to Pursat. We packed our stuff on our bus and left liger at 8:00 am. I slept on the bus on the way. We ate lunch in a pagoda called Chan Moni. The old people in there were so kind. The hotel that I sleep in is called Than Sour Thmey. We went to Srer Khmer after we saw our room. I learned a lot there. One thing that I learned is that a type of plant called Chaya is very good for our health . In our lives we can it them up to one to three tons of that plant, if we cook it very well. I also learned one new word: Moringa is a plant that is bitter, in khmer we call it ម្រុុំ. My highlight was to hear all the questions that my friends asked and how they answered them.
10/3/15	Today, I listened to a presentation about rice in the village chief’s house. A lot of people came to the house. Thona presented to us. I learned that there are three big steps of growing rice. First, it’s the growing steps. Second is the product increasing step. The third one is the ripe step. There are small steps in each big steps. Another thing that I learned is that Srer Khmer is located in four provinces, Pursat; Battombong; Siem Riep; Kompong Thom. We went to a villager’s house and ate lunch there. My highlight for the day was to take out the weeds from the rice field. My other highlight was to go to the public school to teach students English. It was a tired and hot day, but it was fun.
11/3/15	Today, I woke up at 6:10 am. I showered and got ready for the trip to Steung Kombot community. We went to the farmer’s house to see the cucumber farm. We picked a lot them. We also saw the bitter melons and long beans. I learned one thing is that they used the papers to cover around the bitter melons because they don’t want the pest and insect to eat the vegetables. The other thing that I learned is that there are three types of fertilizer to put in (the same as rice) and we need 150g of fertilizer to put in 20 L of water. My highlight was to go to the ideal farmer site and see how beautiful the crops are. We took pictures in the trellis of the bitter melon. I like today a lot.

Exploration Name; Entrepreneurship

Dates:10/6/2014 – 11/21/2014

Number of Students: 12

Location of Trips Taken: ARC Hub PNH, Northbridge, Small World,

Central Market, Cham Pu Ka-ek Market

Essential Questions: How to make a business?

Course Description: Our Exploration is called Entrepreneurship. We had four groups. There are HP-Pro, Shook, Sa-art Action and CPH. Each person in each group had different job to do, like leader, marketer, blogger, designer and the people that in charge website. Every Friday, we went to Arc Hub to study with Kichong our learning facilitator. We’ve been learning some terms. All the terms that we’ve learned are connected to business. Here are some terms that we’ve learned: profit means how much money we earned ; loss means the money that loose from our business ; feedback is comment, suggestion, improvement, advice ; prototype is the sample to learn from ; insight means understanding people vision ; proactive is causing something to happen and not waiting for good luck. On the last day, we take a test to make sure that we understand all the term that we’ve learned. We wrote essay for the test.

 

 

Name: Tropical Forest Ecology

Date: May 5 2014 – June 17 2014

Number of People: 12

Essential Questions:

1. How are organisms and the nonliving environment interconnected in the world around us?
2.  What is the value of tropical forest ecosystems for Cambodia?
3. How do humans impact tropical forest ecosystems in Cambodia? Is it possible to use tropical forests sustainably?

Description: In Tropical Forest Ecology we learned about Ecosystems. Ecosystems are a community of organisms that are interconnected and connected with non-living things. We went on two trips because we wanted to experience and see forest directly.We went to Preah Vihear and Koh Kong provinces. When we came back we compared the dry deciduous dipterocarp forest ecosystem (Preah Vihear province) with the evergreen forest ecosystem (Koh Kong province). In Preah Vihear we went to Tmatboey community and in Koh Kong we went to Chi Phat community. We learned about conservation. Conservation means taking care or protecting something. While we learned about conservation, we also learned about sustainable and unsustainable. Sustainable is the action that does not destroy the ecosystem. Unsustainable is the action that destroys the ecosystem. We learned about ecotourism. Ecotourism is tourism that uses and benefits the ecosystem. That is one way that we use ecosystems sustainably.Also we learned about ecological services. Ecological services are the benefits that people get from ecosystems. There are three ecological services such as provisioning services, regulating services and cultural services. Provisioning services are how the ecosystem provides us directly. Ex: Trees give us resin. Regulating services are how the ecosystem regulates the climate. Ex: Trees stop the floods by absorbing the water. Cultural services are how the ecosystems give us something culturally. Ex: Bambuti people use forest plants to smoke for their ceremonies.  We answered our essential questions by using the knowledge that we got from our trips.

Exploration Name: Tech Support

Exploration Dates: August 13-Oct 3, 2014

Number of Students: 12

Description: Tech Support was the first Exploration of the second year. In Tech Support we learned about technology and helping other organizations, NGOs and Liger with their technology problems. On the first day Max, our facilitator taught us a little bit about the ideas that he made this Exploration. On the next day we started to learn more about technology. We learned about the parts of computers (hardware). On the second week we had a trip to Singapore! Before that day we prepared our clothes in our backpacks. When we arrived at the airport our parents came to say goodbye to us. We were so sad but we were also happy. On the plane people were talking to each other, some people hurt their ears because it’s hard to hear up there in the sky. When we arrived in Singapore we had to wait for the checker to check our passports. After we finished the check step there was a big surprise for us because Robert (the former head of Liger) came and was waiting for us. He came and said hello to us, we were shocked. About 15 minutes later we went straight to UWCSEA South East Campus. We went there because we want to collaborate with them so we can help NGOs and organizations in Cambodia. There were seven members that worked with us. The first day that we met them we played some games to know and get familiar with each other. Then we found out our host family that we were going to sleep with for two days. Our host families were so friendly and kind. We went there and learned with an IT expert more about the hardware of the computers. On the third day we camped in UWCSEA. Also we went to the science museum to learn and have fun. Sadly on Wednesday we had to leave Singapore. When we came back we went to two organizations to help them. One of them is Tiny Toons. They have problems with their computer. We took five computers to fix at Liger. Luckily we fixed two of them already! The other organization is Green Umbrella, and theyhave a problem with their website so we helped to fix it.

If you want to know more about UWCSEA, Tiny Toones and Green Umbrella click on the logos beside to visit them.