We finally have the second episode for LigerCast. Our first episode was talking about Hidden Voices in Cambodia. Now we have a second episode that is talking about a life of man. His name is Saboun. He is an Operations Manager in Liger.
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Marine Conservation in Cambodia
Exploration: Marine Conservation
Facilitator: Karen Krieger
Students: 12
In this exploration, I’d learn a lot about marine ecosystem. My group went to Koh Seh (Kep) to study about marine ecosystem and marine conservation. This trip was the best trip I’ve ever taken before. I got to live on an island for five days with all of the friendly people on the island. When the first time I got on the boat I felt kind of not comfortable because I’ve heard from Karen that we needed to travel about nearly an hour to get to the island. But after a few minutes, I felt so great because I was so excited to go to the island. When I first got to the island I felt so fresh and I met a lot of great people and kids over there. We had a very delicious meal and great place to sleep (bangalo). However, we went to the island not just to have fun we also learn a lot too.
Marine Conservation Cambodia (MCC) has taught us a lot of about what they are doing there and what they are trying to do to protect marine ecosystem in Cambodia. I’ve learn about illegal fishing in Cambodia (ex: trawling). This was my first time that I know how bad is illegal fishing destroy marine life and ecosystem. Trawling is really really bad because it’s not just taken fish, but it’s also destroying everything under water (ex: coral reef). I feel kind of sad for the ocean. I feel like , Cambodian should stop fishing illegally. Beside learning about illegal fishing we’ve learn about life under water. We’ve learn about coral reef. Why do we need to learn about coral reef? Well, coral reef is a habitat for marine life. It’s provide food to the organism. Also we’ve learn about seahorse, one of the cute organism underwater. MCC is trying to protect seahorse because in Cambodia, seahorse is in a great danger. We’ve learn how to measure seahorse and also learn why seahorse is important to protect.
We also did some activities that help the world like beach clean up. Liger and MCC collect about 130 kg of trash in an hour. We put the data that we collect and put it in the world form data (Ocean Conservancy). We use the trash that we collect and we did some recycled materials.
At night we watched 2 documentary, coconut man, seahorse man. Staying at Koh Seh has been one of my powerful experience ever.
At school we as a group writes a proposal for students next year, so they get to go to the island and learn about marine ecosystem too. Everyone is pounding the pavement really hard to work on the proposal and get really serious. This proposal, we will present to Dom (country director at Liger) and Mr. Jeff (coordinator) then they will prove the proposal that students will do this project next year. In the proposal, my job is to writed about Next Year Plan Feasibility Study. In the proposal we also include problem and solution about marine ecosystem in Cambodia.
Khmer Interior Design
In this exploration, I’ve learn about interior design. This exploration is special because this is a “chose your own exploration”. We choose this topics because we want to learn about interior design, although we thought being an interior designer is fun and easy. Another reason is my sister in law is an interior designer so I can contact her and ask her question.
We also have the greatest opportunity ever because Liger has a construction going on, so we ask Dom (country director) to design that apartment. Our group has divide into three groups, kitchen and living room, two bedrooms, and a bathroom. I was working on bathroom with my partner, Menghouth. We were working so hard to get everything done. We’ve been shopping for furniture, light, and others.
Being interior designer is not easy. Everyone that doesn’t know about interior design always said “interior design is super easy. If you have money you can just go buy furniture and put it in your house”. We’ve been doing this for 7 weeks and we found out that it’s not as easy as we think.
We also having fun while we doing this.
Hidden Voices Description
Name: Hidden Voices
Facilitator: Rich, Sophorn, and Trish
Students: 13
In this exploration, we are studying about songs that are endangered, that Cambodian never heard it before. So to find the songs that are endangered we been to 2 provinces to interview people from difference places. We been to Kampong Speu and Mondulkiri. We not just went outside to interview people, but we also interview people by calling them and asking about there favorite songs and so on.
(Hidden Voices Trip)
In class we been studying about Podcasting. We also made a podcast that talk about our Hidden Voices group. To make this podcast, we been working really hard to edit, writing script and so on.
I was working on editing too, and it was not that easy to do. The program that we use to edit the podcast is Audacity.
I feel like, this exploration made me learned a lot of things.
I can improve my interviewing skills when I went to interview people.
I learned how to edit in Audacity.
Communicator (being brave)
Being Proactive
Try to challenge my self
My favorite songs that my interviewee told me is មន្ដស្នេហ៍ខ្លុយ(mon snea kloy teb)
We also made a blog for our group to share to other people about the endangered songs in Cambodia. This blog is full of songs that we found. Also, If you want to listen to the Podcast that we made, please go to our blog!
Visit our blog! Hidden Voices
(Hidden Voices Group Pictures)
I go to unusual school
In my literacy class with my teacher Jan, he to me to write ” I go to unusual school” .
Here was what I wrote!
Name: Soliday
Group: D
Date: 9/10/15
Class: English Literacy
I go to an unusual school. My school is called Liger Learning Center (LLC). There are 50 students at my school. There are a lot of subjects such as expertise, math, literacy, STEM, and exploration. One of those subject is different than other. It is exploration. Exploration is projects to study new things and explore outside of class. This project last for seven weeks and there are different subjects in each classes.
Why is Liger an unusual school? This school is different from goverment schools,because the style of learning is different and the subjects are different. When went to a goverment school, I never got a chance to explore outside, but Liger give us an opportunity to study and explore outside of the school such as, Singapore and different provinces in Cambodia. I am so excited to get to study here at Liger Learning Center.
Who am I?
In my literacy class with my teacher Jan, he told us to write a poem about Who am I?
Here is my poem about my self.
I am Soliday
I am 13 years old
There are seven people in my family.
I hate most of the reptiles .
I love to research and I love reading and writing.
Now, studying is the most important thing for me to focus on.
But I never forget my family because they are my energy and my everything.
I love everyone around me. I will be strong and powerful in
the future because I am Soliday.