Category: Year

Posted on

TIPS for SAT Examination

I had never been a good test taker. Especially, standardized tests such as the SAT and the other Advanced Placement courses. Therefore at the start of 2018, I had a mini SAT boot camp, which was to go over strategies and great tips to face the exam in confident. These are the two tips that I personally find helpful. 

Note *** There are so many more tips online that might be helpful to you

  1. Time Management – Answer easy questions first
     In the reading section of the SAT, there are 5 passages that include 10 to 11 questions and a total time of 65 minutes. Which break down to about 13 minutes per passage. Which means you have about a little than a minute to answer the question. Therefore, when facing questions that you are not comfortable at answering skip to the easier ones first.

    *** Don’t forget to mark it down in your answer sheet so that you won’t forget to come back or messed up circling the wrong questions

  2. Always begin with the easier passage 

There are three main passages in the SAT. There are science, US literature, and history and literature. While practicing for the exam, notice the passages that you managed to score a higher score on. Then on the exam, choose to do those passages first before jumping into the old confusing literature passage. 

Image result for good luck on the sat meme

credit: internet 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

Posted on

Changing the Face of Medicine

A few weeks ago, in physic class, we had a small assignment that required a research paper written about Women participation in STEM. When talking about famous people that have changed the world throughout science, technology, engineering, and math women are not often brought up into the conversations, even though there are a tremendous amount of women that changed the world throughout the aspect of STEM. 

This is the research paper that I have written about a woman that change the face of medicine.

 

“Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end. ” Looking through the life of a woman named Elizabeth Blackwell, inspired a tremendous amount of people, especially women in accomplishing their field in a medical study.

 

Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell was born on February  3, 1821, in Bristol, England. She was raised in a household that strongly believes in Education. Blackwell’s family moved to the United State in 1832, both for financial issues and to join the anti-slavery movement. Six years later after having been moved to America, unfortunately, her father passed away. Even Though her father passed away, her mother and two older sisters worked as an educator. In addition, Elizabeth Blackwell also gets her first job as a teacher in the US. As a group of educated people, the Blackwell’s family campaigned for women’s rights and supported the anti-slavery movement.

 

Further on, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman that earn the first M.D degree from the New York’s Geneva Medical College, in 1849. After being the first woman who earned the first M.D degree, Elizabeth Blackwell has changed the face of medicine. She encouraged many more women to get in medical school. With the help of her sister and another doctor, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell has established the New York Infirmary for Women and Children at 64 Bleecker Street in 1857. This institution and its medical college for women (opened 1867) provided training and experience for women doctors and medical care for the poor. Elizabeth Blackwell was also an author of many books related to science.

 

With a lot of accomplishment, at the same time, there were also challenges of her way to the success. At the time, when she was finding universities, most of the universities and classes were men and sometimes forbidden for women to study. She applied to the New York’s Geneva Medical College and the man students in the class needed to vote for her to get accepted to the school. The man students took it as a joke and voted yes. As a woman, she also gets a lot of discriminations, which sometimes discourages her from the studying. Moreover, while doing a procedure on an infant she contracted a disease that caused one of her eyes to go blind. With one blind eye, she could not pursue her dream of becoming a surgeon.

 

Currently, women are not the spotlight of the STEM field. It is important to spotlight their accomplishment since it encouraged many other females to participate in the STEM field. Representing the male students as personally believe that there should be an equality between men and women.  

Posted on

Get Accepted for Virtual Foreign Exchange

I applied for Virtual Foreign Exchange because I am interested in other countries cultures and their lives style. Since I can’t afford to go to the other countries this community would be the best internet platform for me to resolve all of wonders and questions in a safe environment. I could also use this platform to gain knowledge in a way such as: communcation, networking, and cultural exposure from other people all around the world. 

Website

 

 

 

Posted on

First Beach Ultimate

This is the first ever beach ultimate in Cambodia. I am really lucky that I was a part of it. In addition, the best part of the trip was learning new skills from the other people and also get to know more people that have the same interests as me. As I played more and more I have a better understanding of the spirit of the game. I really like how at the end of the game, both teams came together and create a spirit circle to speak about what you like and what you don’t about the game. I can’t wait to attend this event again next year. 

Surrounded by tourists and aside to the ocean, the game of frisbee was being played. Frisbee is a new sport in Cambodia, people that were watching had interest and were curious about the sport. Many asked about it and few sat under shades and enjoyed the game. 

Posted on

Volunteer for Khmer Sight Foundation

It is killing me watching the Cambodian elders who have no eyes vision. They could not appreciate the view of the environment around them, they can not see people who they love. When volunteered for the Khmer Sight Foundation, I put my full effort to help those elders in my community to do an eye check and get better eyesight. The patients were mostly older people with age around 50-60 years old and they got cataract which causes their eyes sight to lose. For those people who have eyes cataract, we talked to them and ask them kindly to get an eye surgery to help improve their vision. But our challenge was, those old people need to work, and take care of their grandchildren, so they resisted not to go with to the hospital. When faced this problem, our team were trying to convince them in every possible way for them to change their mind. Throughout the whole morning, we had been very successful and I felt so great helping those Cambodian elders. In addition, by volunteering in this event, it helped me to wonder and do more research about the knowledge of human’s eyes. 

Posted on

Basketball Competition

I have trained basketball for about 2 years with my coach and all of my Liger’s friends. Most of Liger students are really athletics. A day before the holiday, we had a basketball competition against an international school called ICAN. We tried really hard, and every one of us was doing great. Although we tried really hard, we still lost the game.

A year later we had a rematched and I hit three points winning shot. The score was 17 – 16. Everyone was so excited and, I was so excited. 

 

Training for the game!

 

 

Posted on

Waste Management – Exploration

In my life I always talk about the ways that I can change Cambodia. In this exploration I have learned and know how to make change for my country while I am also earning profit from it. This exploration is really help me to realize how difficult is it to start up a business. Before we start the business we need to research and making a feasibility study. Feasibility study is the study of a start up business to know if your business will make profit or it feasible. Every businesses should do the feasibility study before they start their business because they do not need to waste time and waste their money if the business is not feasible. I was working in Economic Feasibility section in our feasibility study booklet and it is a whole new idea for me. Our team also visited a school that made our of plastic bags, car’s wheels, and threw away glass bottles. I hope that Cambodia will implement this types of school and building in our society. I really proud of all the works that I did and also the work that we did together as a team. In conclusion from our feasibility study I think our business is feasible if we want to run it in the future.     

 

Posted on

Cambodia First Beach Clean Up

On 17th, October it was the first time that Cambodia has international beach clean up day. Liger’s students are the first Cambodian that do this event. We went to Kept beach and cooperate with some international volunteers. I was really proud of myself that help to clean the beach and make it better. I have been the row model for the younger kids that were watching also for all Cambodian to see and take the action. We hope more Cambodians could join us next year and help to change Cambodia.

Posted on

Changing Cambodia 2015-2016

In the world, life is not constant the only thing that it constant is change. Changes are always happen in our life. It doesn’t care that you are a poor person or a rich person, smart or stupid, beautiful or ugly, they always find you and make things different. There are two types of changes. Change can be good or it can be bad, depend on what kind of change would you want to change. For me, becoming one of the Liger’s students was the biggest change that I made so far in my life. When I study at Liger I have a lot of opportunities to change my life and my country.

It is the fourth year at Liger. I have involved in a project called Google Science Fair. It’s a competition that have thousands of young people from different country and have the same passion about science. We were trying to use our science knowledge to create positive changes in our community and make the difference it the world. My project was about using the plastic bottles and plastic bags in a different way. By using plastic bottles and plastic bags in the right way is to use plastic bags to put in the plastic bottles. After we filled the bottle with plastic, the bottles are strong enough to use to build bench, small road, etc. So when we collect the plastic bags and plastic bottles. it will help to clean our environment, community, and our world.  We choose to make this project because we thought that plastic is one of the biggest problem in the world. I have this opportunity and I also want to share it to young Cambodian to have the same opportunity. 

The first exploration of the year was learning about Phnong indigenous minority. In this project we thought that Phnong is part of Cambodian and not a lot of people know about them and their culture. Our team decided to create a book that include tons of information about Phnong people. To research for the information out team went to the Phnong’s community and learned about them to create our book. We spent five days with the Phnong and we got lots of information that we can use it to write our book. In the book my jobs were writing and editing with my others three teammates. It the conclusion we raised three main problems that we don’t really have the best answers or solutions to. But we could only share share our idea at the Sharation. But for me I really encourage the government to help to make the positive changes. We hope people are buying more book, so we can spread our words.

This year we have the opportunity to create our own exploration with a group of people between two-six people. I was participated in Khmer Interior Design(KID) exploration. Our goal in this exploration was to designed one of the apartment in Liger school and we noticed that in Cambodia there wasn’t a lot of interior designers. I have learned that every things that appear for you to see, they have their purpose and explanation. In the exploration I have designed the kitchen and living room with my partner Thiny.

The fourth year was a fabulous year because the secretary of state could learn and know bout our school. Liger was honored to invite the secretary of state and some important people from different government schools. Every students were presenting about something about why Liger is a unique school. I was sharing one of Liger curriculum(STEAM). I think that I had give the leaders of education something that they could change in the government school.

Next year we will be Liger’s senior students, so we will have our own house ans starting to cook the food for ourselves. I was working on an exploration called Liger Senior Cook Book. And our goals were finding recipes, writing method and published a book, so people that don’t know how to cook could learn from our book. We were divided in three teams. We have created change by making the book so people could learn from it.

 

All these exploratioons have help me to make changes in my community and my country.

 

Posted on

Khmer Class – Script

In Khmer class this year, we are learning about how to write script. The script that we write should only take three to four minutes length. The script that we write can be about fact and comedy. We also can mix the script. We can make it contains a lot of facts and also funny. Our team work for two hours researched about the topic and writing the script. This is our product.

 

សាលាអន្តរជាតិ ឡៃហ្គ័រ

SCRIPT អំពី: ព្រៃកោងកាង

ឈ្មោះ សិស្ស : ១)​ ចាន់​​ ដាវីឌ –  ២)​ ឆ្លមសេរី និរ្តនរ – ៣) ពេជ្រ សុវណ្ណនូ

 

និរន្តរ : ប៉ាអើយប៉ា! ថ្ងៃនេះបា៉ នាំខ្ញុំហើយនឹងចែទៅណាទៅប៉ា?

ដាវីឌ :​ អូ កូនប្រុស! ថ្ងៃនិងហាស់ ប៉ានិងនាំកូនហើយនិងមីចែកូនឯង ទៅលេងកន្លែងមួយដែលប៉ាធានាថា ពួកកូនទាំងពីរនិង

ពេញចិត្តតែម្តង។

សុវណ្ណនូ :​ អួយបា៉! ទៅណាទៅណ៎?

និរន្តរ : ​អួយចែ! ចែអែងសួរច្រើនមេ៉ស ប៉ាយើង តែគាត់ថាពិសេសគឺពិសេសហើយ! កំុសួរច្រើនពេក។

ដាវីឌ : អើ អើ!​ តោះយើងទៅ!

និរន្តរ : ប៉ា?​ អាវេងៗនោះ ហើយនៅក្នុងទឹកនិងគឺជាអ្វីទៅប៉ា?

សុវណ្ណនូ : ព្រះអើយ!​ សូម្បីតែដើមកោងកាងក៏មិនស្គាល់ដែរ?

និរន្តរ : អូ!​ ដើមកោងកាង?!​ ដើមកោងកាងនិង ជាអ្វីទៅចែ?

សុវណ្ណនូ​  :​ អាដើមនិង​នែ អាដែងនែ!​

និរន្តរ : អាក​ ចែ​អត់ដឹង​ផង! ធ្វើ ឯងឡើងឡូយ

ដាវីឌ : អើ​ អើ ចាំប៉ាប្រាប់!​​ ដើមកោងកាង គឺជាប្រភេទព្រៃស្តុកហើយព្រៃកោងកាងត្រូវបានរកឃើញនៅតាមជួរមាត់ច្រាំង

សមុទ្រនៃតំបន់ត្រូពិច និងមានភាវៈជាច្រើនកំពុងរស់នៅ និងសម្របខ្លួននឹងបរិស្ថាន ណាកូន។!

សុវណ្ណនូ : ភាវៈ!​​​​ ភាវៈនិងជាអីគេទៅប៉ា?!

ដាវីឌ : ភាវៈគឺជា អ្វីៗដែលមានជីវីតដូចជា សត្វត្រី លាស អយស្ទ័រ ហើយនិង​សត្វផ្សេងៗទៀតណាកូន!។

និរន្តរ  : អូប៉ា?!

ដាវីឌ : ហ៎!!!​ បា៉ទៅកុហកពួកកូនឯងធ្វើអី?!

សុវណ្ណនូ : ហើយប៉ា! អាព្រៃកោងកាងនិង​ មាននៅខេត្ត​ណាខ្លះប៉ា នៅប្រទេសកម្ពុជាយើង?!

ដាវីឌ :  ក្នុងប្រទេសកម្ពុជាយើង ដើមកោងកាងត្រូវបានរកឃើញនៅឆ្នេរនៃទិសនិរតីក្នុងខេត្តកោះកុងណាកូន។

និរន្តរ  : យី ចែ!! ហើយឡើងចឹង​! ដឹងថាប៉ាកំពុងបើកឡានអត់! សួរច្រើនហើយច្រើន?

សុវណ្ណនូ : ទោះជាចែសួរប៉ាច្រើន​​ យា៉ងហោចណាស់ក៏ចែបានដឹងនិងយល់អំពី ព្រៃកោងកាងនេះច្បាស់ជាងមុនដែរ។ មិនដូចអ្នកខ្លះទេចូលចិត្តលេងតែអាហ្គេមស្អីនិងទេ គ្មានដែររៀនគ្មានដែរធ្វើស្អីទេចំាតែរអូ!!

ដាវីឌ : តោះតោះ យើងមកដល់គោលដៅហើយចុះពីលើឡ្ានទៅ ពីរអ្នកបងប្អូនឯងនិង។

សុវណ្ណនូ :​ ចុះបា៉ហេតុអីបានជាព្រៃកោងកាងរស់នៅក្នុងទឹប្រៃបានប៉ា?

ដាវីឌ​​ :​ អូ!​ កូនស្រី! ដើម្បីអាចរស់នៅក្នុងទឹកប្រៃបាន ស្លឹករបស់វាមានក្រពេញដ៏អស្ចារ្យដែលអាចបញ្ចេញចោលជាតិអំបិល ។

សុវណ្ណនូ :​ អ៎! ចឹងទេហ៎ប៉ា!!

ដាវីឌ :​ មិនត្រឹមតែប៉ុណ្ណឹងទេកូន ហើយវាក៏ដុះក្នុងដីដែលគ្មានខ្យល់ហើយមានឬសដែលស្រាល ដែលមានរន្ធញើស

សម្រាប់ដកដង្ហើម។ គ្រាប់របស់វាអាចអណ្តែត ដែលជួយឲ្យវាពង្រាយគ្រាប់លើទឹក ។

និរន្តរ  : ហើយចែ! ប្រសិនបើចែឯងចង់ដឹងច្បាស់ពីព័ត៍មានអំពីព្រៃកោងកាងនិងទៀតហាស់ នែៗ!​​ចែឯងចូលទៅកាន់គេហ:ទំព័រ

នេះទៅដែរមានឈ្មោះថា Fauna Flora International ​​គេហ:ទំព័រនោះនិងបង្រៀនចែឯងបន្ថែម​អំពីព្រៃកោងកាង។

ហើយមិនថែមទៅទៀត Fauna Flora International​​ មិនមែនមានតែគេហ:ទំព័រនោះទេតែក៏ជាប្រភេទអង្គការ

មួយដែលដែរពួកគាត់ធ្វើការខាងផ្នែកអភិរក្សសត្វ​​​។

សុវណ្ណនូ :​​​ អូ!​!​ ចាំពេលទៅផ្ទះវិញចែនិងចូលមើលគេហ:ទំព័រនោះ! Fauna Flora International ហេស?

និរន្តរ  :  បាទនិងហើយ។!

សុវណ្ណនូ :​ ប៉ុន្តែប៉ាកូនមានសំណួរមួយទៀតតើព្រៃកោងកាងនិង មានសារះសំខាន់អីខ្លះ ទៅប៉ា?!

ដាវីឌ​​ :​ អើ!!​ ចំាប៉ាប្រាប់ណាកូន!​ ដើមកោងកាងគឺពិតជាសំខាន់ណាស់ ពីព្រោះវាជួយការពារសំណឹកនិងស្រូបយក

កាបូនឌីអុកសីុត។ដើមកោងកាងនិងផ្កាថ្មមានទំនាក់ទំនង៖ ផ្កាថ្មកាត់បន្ថយរលកដើម្បីការពារដើមកោងកាងតូចៗ

ខណៈដែលឬសនៃដើមកោងកាងផ្ដល់ទីជម្រកទៅឲ្យកូនផ្កាថ្ម។

សុវណ្ណនូ​ : អូ!​ Wow! ដើមកោងកាងនេះពិតជាមានសារះសំខាន់សំរាប់ធម្មជាតិនិងសត្វគ្នាវា។

ដាវីឌ​ : មែនហើយកូនស្រី!​ 

និរន្តរ : តែប៉ា!?!​​​ ចុះអាប្រភេទដើមកោងកាងនិងហាប៉ា វាអាចផុតពូជឬអត់ទេប៉ា?!

ដាវីឌ​ : កូនសួរបាន​ល្អណាស់! អ្វីៗទាំងអស់ ដែរមានជីវិត​នៅលើភពផែនដីយើងនេះសុទ្ធតែអាចបាត់បង់

ទៅវិញបានណាកូន។ ពេលនេះវាអាចនៅមានជីវិតខណះដែរយើងថែរក្សាវាណាកូន​ ក៏ប៉ុន្តែប៉ាក៏ចង់ប្រាប់កូនៗថាដើម

កោងកាងនេះ ក៏អាចបាត់បង់ទៅដែរបើសិនជាមនុស្សយើងមិនថែរក្សានិងធ្វើការកាប់បំផ្លាញវាណាកូន។​​ 

 និរន្តរ : អូប៉ាមែនក៏អី?!​ ដូច្នេះពេលទៅសាលាវិញខ្ញុំនិងចែកចាយព័ត៍មានអំពីព្រៃកោងកាងនេះទៅដល់មិត្តរួមថ្នាក់ខ្ញុំហើយ

ណាប៉ា។

ដាវីឌ : ល្អណាស់កូន! កូនត្រូវចែកចាយបទពិសោធន៍ល្អៗដែរកូនបានរៀនហើយប្រាប់ទៅប្អូនៗជំនាន់ក្រោយអោយបានដឹង

និងបានលឺអំពីព្រៃកោងកាងនេះណាកូន។!​ គ្មានអ្វីស្រស់ស្អាតជាងបរិស្ថានធម្មជាតិទេណាកូន ដូច្នេះចូលកូនៗជំនាន់

ក្រោយនេះធ្វើការថែរក្សានិងស្រលាញ់វាណាកូន។

 និរន្តរ – សុវណ្ណនួ​ : អរគុណប៉ាដែរបានប្រាប់អំពីព័ត៍មាននៃព្រៃកោងកាងនេះ។!

ដាវីឌ : ពិតជាល្អណាស់កូនៗទាំងពីររបស់ប៉ា។!