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Post by Jerry Cong on Apr 5, 2016 3:43:17 GMT -8
One thing I saw when I came to Cambodia is that the difference between Heaven and hell is the width of a street. When we got off at the hotel, across the street we can see different scenery. Lots of people were sitting on the ground and begging and when we got to the suburbs we saw there were lots of children without clothes. I thought this trip was very meaningful. When we saw how poor these families are, we can feel how good we have it. I'm glad that I can build a house for the people who live in the broken down house. When I saw how happy the family was to get a new house, I think it's worth it to built house for them.
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Post by Alina Ge on Apr 5, 2016 3:57:51 GMT -8
The best thing is I visited the Angkor Wat. This is a famous place in the world, I can learned the Cambodian history from Angkor Wat. I also saw Cambodia's environment is not good, some children don't have the shoes to wear. Next year, I will go to Cambodia again to help them.
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Post by susanhu on Apr 5, 2016 5:18:17 GMT -8
One thing I want to share about Cambodia is the low quality of education there. Compare to other countries in the world, Cambodia is a relatively poor place where only wealthy students are able to be educated. Education is a crucial thing in people's life which helps people become intelligent, but poor students there are not able to enjoy the benefit of education. Consequently, the poor remains poor. And for students who are able to go to school, most of them drive motorcycles to school by themselves instead of having an adult who send them to school in private cars, which is a really dangerous way of traveling. Additionally, they don't have a good and effective educational system because some of them are selling visitors postcards in order to skip the school. If I'm able to change one thing in Cambodia, my first step would be improving the situation of education there.
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Post by mckenzeypeter on Apr 5, 2016 6:12:45 GMT -8
I learned that no matter what situation you are in, you can always be happy. While in Cambodia I saw some of the worst poverty that I have ever seen and the people who are living in such unimaginable conditions can still find a way to smile and laugh. I think thats amazing to be honest.. so many people who live comfortable lives are not happy for the silliest of reasons and yet the people who are barely scrapping by and living in situations most people wouldn't last a week in are happy. Now everyone wasnt happy all the time but when they found something positive in their life, they seemed to embrace it and cherish it. I think we all need to become better at that, cherishing the little things and smiling even when you think everything has gone down the toilet.
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Post by Jerry Wu on Apr 5, 2016 6:13:39 GMT -8
By looking at the living conditions of the people there, it gave me a realization that poor doesn't mean unhappiness. People there don't have anything close to what we have now, but that doesn't mean they can't be as happy as we are, kids there still can enjoy playing in dirt puddles, still enjoying running without shoes. This just means that people don't need a lot of money in order to live happiness, more importantly is the positive attitude towards the living conditions now.
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Post by Tomoki Otani on Apr 5, 2016 6:14:15 GMT -8
For me, the most important learning experience was actually meeting people who had been affected directly by the Khmer Rouge. It was so surprising to me because the Khmer Rouge I knew wasn't really a physical thing; it was videos and pictures and stories from people far away. Meeting these people; Pascal, Tola, and the man from the temple, garnered within me a new understanding of not only the Khmer Rouge, but a new understanding of how real tragedies all over the world are for people that are involved, and how easy it is for others who aren't to distance themselves. For people in conflict, statistics aren't different colors and numbers on some quirky looking info-graphic, it's family and loved ones. For me that was the most important learning experience.
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Post by Jack Li on Apr 5, 2016 20:41:15 GMT -8
One thing that I learned in Cambodia was to be satisfied. Before this trip I sometimes complain about things that not go along with me. During this trip I saw many poor kids on the street without wearing their shoes, some kids even naked and beg on the street. I felt sorry for them and I started to question myself, why i am not satisfied with who I am. I saw many children in Cambodia started to make their own living in young age, but when I was their age I was still complaining about the homework.
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Post by Frank Lin on Apr 5, 2016 21:52:12 GMT -8
During this trip, Cambodian people really refreshed my impression on them. Normally, I thought poor people may feel sorrow and unhappy all the time because they cannot get the things they want and the life they looking forward to. But It seems like Cambodian people are all confidence about their life and they are super nice and friendly. Like what we say, money cannot represent happy life, and poverty cannot destroy one person's life. Cambodian people have their own definition of happy life and I think this point of view is necessary for us to learn. We pay too much attention on wealthy but ignore what the life means.
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Post by samrilaney on Apr 6, 2016 5:03:40 GMT -8
I think that the most important thing to tell my family and friends about Cambodia is the life styles of the people. I think that knowing that they have little will help people be more careful with the things they have for example food and water not to waste any.
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Post by snowzhao on Apr 6, 2016 17:57:06 GMT -8
I've never been to a country like Combodia, so when I heard that 80% of this country was farmers I thought that must be a green country. However there is just lots of mud yellow, frail caws and sewage. Combodia is actually a poor country with its poor and weak inside, but the students there were like to study, like to learn the knowledge. Only the citizen wants to build the country stronger, the country will be stronger.
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Post by meaganmichalk on Apr 6, 2016 19:37:31 GMT -8
I really learned so much during the Cambodia trip so its really hard for me to consider one thing i would share with my family. I guess it just makes sense to share what i talked about for almost two hours with my mom and brother when i got back from the trip. I think the most important thing or lesson for me was the service work of building the house. I was filled with so much joy and satisfaction working for the family. It felt so nice to know that my hard work would bring happiness and safety to a family with so much less than me. Because of this trip i am now considering taking a gap year to dedicate myself to service projects. Thank you so much for a wonderful opportunity to learn so much about my self.
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Post by Frank Liu on Apr 6, 2016 23:37:54 GMT -8
Throughout this service trip, I learned that, first, although Cambodians do not have a good living environment, but their life is simple and happy. They enjoy their careers and relationships. Like our tour guide, he provided professional explanations to every memorable places we've been, and answered our question respectively, and he felt happy about it. Second, the religion is a very important role of the locals. They believe in religions mainly originated from Hinduism, and participate/practice it as the most important thing in their life.
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Post by Jerry Tan on Apr 7, 2016 2:58:07 GMT -8
One thing that I share with my parent frequently is the house building. I saw the comman house that the location live in and many strange animals that I have never seen before like the white cowl. I saw a cambodian family and their comman life. I saw hardworking and simple and honest cambodians.
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Post by minjoon on Apr 7, 2016 19:40:15 GMT -8
The most important thing that I learned from visiting Cambodia and participating in volunteer services is positivity and viewing the world through a different lense. Though the kids and the people living in Cambodia maybe under poverty or other harships in life, they were always postive, happy, and eager to learn. Therefore, from them, I learned that I should view the world and situation I am in through a more positive viewpoint.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2016 4:59:54 GMT -8
I think one thing that I'd tell my family or friends about is the quality of life in the lower-end (more common) parts of Cambodia. When we were at Cambodia, we saw that (ex.) a lot of people we came across barely had enough money/supplies to keep themselves alive. We also learned that children at young ages would attend school to train for circuses and other things. I talked with some of the kids in Cambodia that sold things in the streets at Angkor Wat, and I found out that some children only go to school in the afternoon, with their parents going in the morning. This shows me how poor a lot of these people in Cambodia are. I think this is something worth sharing with others.
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