Zaman International School Newspaper Issue 63

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

After the briefing we wereushered into the room where westarted to ask our questions toMs Seth Vannareth.

In the room there were tencomputers. All the computerswere for different purposess u c h a s m e a s u r i n gtemperature, air, and pressure.All the data in the computerswere from the satellite thatbelongs to Japan. Most of theAsian Countries take theirmeteorology data from thatsame satellite.

As 10-F class students, wecouldn't wait to ask ourquestions that we had prepareda week ago.

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Physics is a unique field ofexperience for the students atour school (ZIS). The goal is toprovide the students with anappreciation and understandingof the physical world.

Physics is about the conceptsand real events surrounding us.There are numbers of types ofactivities to help students learnphysics better and quicker atZIS. Students observe andw a t c h l e c t u r e s a n ddemonstrations during classes,l a b s , a n d l a b o r a t o r yexper iments. Addi t ional ly,teachers arrange educationalfield trips as follows.

After studying and havingexciting experiments aboutThermal Physics for 3 months,our Physics teacher, Mr. Gurkan Cil, arranged an educational fieldtrip to Meteorology Station for us.

On 25th of December, 2008 at

9:30 am, Mr. Gurkan, Mr. ElSophea counselor of our school,and 32 students from 10F classleft the school. It took 20 minutesto get to Meteorology Station.

When we had reached there, allthe staff warmly greeted usincluding the director of thestation, Ms Seth Vannareth.Afterthis warm greeting we weretaken into the meeting room onthe second floor. There, abriefing was given to us about thestation. And they also expressedtheir great pleasure for having usbecause that was the first timefor their department to hoststudents like us who came there for an educational purpose.

NEWSPAPER

Prepared By 12-F

ZAMAN NEWSPAPERZaman, Publisher

Grace L. Karaca, Editor-in Chief Gurkan Cil, Editor at Large

www.zamanisc.org

Zaman International SchoolNewspaper dedicated toeducating students and

training journalists.Published 1 times a month inZaman International School.

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Educational Field Trip to Meteorology Station

How many times do youmeasure atmosphere?Our devices are constantlyrunning. We get data from themthree times a day and evaluatethem.

How many employees aret h e r e i n t o t a l i n t h i sdepartment?

There are only 48 staffsemployed in here and thisnumber is not enough for thedepartment. What is worse, theexisting staffs working here arenot qualified to fulfill thesetechnical jobs. Among them,there are only 10 employees whocan clearly understand themethods and manipulate theequipments.

How many meteorologys t a t i o n s a r e t h e r e i nCambodia?

In total there are 25 stations.Headquarter is located in PhnomPenh and other provinces haveone station. Other stations,h o w e v e r , a r e n o t a ssophisticated as that of in here.

We took our small notebooksand pens with us to take notes.Here are our questions and theanswers;

What is the definition ofmeteorology?Meteorology is the study ofatmosphere.

What is the importance of this field of study?

There are many sectors that are dependent on the informationabout weather conditions. Weforecast oncoming weatherconditions for the tourismsectors, navigation sectors,airline sectors and media.

H o w p r e c i s e a r e y o u rmeasurements?

Since there is no room for anymistakes, our measurements are% 100 precise. The technologythat we have is up to date.

How further can you predictweather conditions?We do it for a day, a week, and amonth ahead.

How do you communicate withother stations? Is there anynetwork among stations?

Unfortunately, there is nonetwork. We use landlinephones to collect data from otherstations on daily basis.

How do you convey weatherforecasts to the sectors?

We used to inform them byphone, but nowadays we use e-m a i l s i n s t e a d . W e f a xinformation to TV stations in theearly morning.

What is the annual income ofthe department?

In fact we are supposed to getmoney from the airports butunfor tunate ly we haven' treceived any money so far. Butthe government covers all theexpenditures of the department.

Can you briefly tell us aboutyour academic background?

After the war only three of us leftmy mother, sister and I. Becauseof this I had had to work till I was

19 years old. Then I decided tocontinue my college educationin Russia for four years. In 1984,I came back and three yearslater I continued to study for myBachelor Degree in Engineeringand on a Master Degree in thesame field. When I finished, Istarted to work. Since then, Icontinued to study for my PHDand finally received it in 2000.I've been working here for 15years and I've been in thisposition in the last 10 years.

What is the gender of thepeople in the same position(director) as you?

Almost all of them are males.When I go to internationalconferences, there is only onefemale director among othersand that is me.

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Then we were taken to the backyard where we saw many typeso f equ ipment tha t wereconnected to the computersinside the facility building.

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qualified lady who has struggled and overcome diff icul t iesthroughout her life.

We were very honored andprivileged to be able to closelysee what that department is allabout and to get to know all thestaffs who are diligently workingthere. We also want to thankthose students who volunteeredto do such stuff as taking photos,voice recording, and videorecording.On behalf of 10F students, wewould like to express ourheartfelt appreciations to ZamanInternational School and ourphysics teacher Mr GURKANCIL that gave us tremendouschance to have a wonderfuleducational field trip.

Prepared by Sansonika Srun &Channa Prum

In the yard one of the staffshowed us the rain filter which isused to measure the amount ofthe rain fall in a day.Next, he showed the tool used tomeasure the sunlight. By usingthis tool we can know how manyhours of sunlight reaches theearth.

On the other side there was a bigbox. There were two tools in it,first one was Termogram, used tomeasure temperature and theother one was Itrogram, used tomeasure humidity. They are keptin an enclosed area to avoid theirdirect exposure to the sunlight.The next tool was to measure theamount of evaporation occurredin a day.

From our point of view, Mrs.SETH VANNARETH is a very

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Fee Policy for High School Current Students:

Fee Policy for Primary School Current Students:

Fee Policy for New Students

For Cambodians:

For Foreigner:

Other Fees

• Tuition fee of the current students will be increased USD300. (ZIShas the right to cancel sibling discount if one of the sisters orbrothers withdrew or graduated)

• Extra-curricular activities (Clubs that are given at 9th hours) will befree of charge.

• Students will receive a school bag free of charge.

• Registration fee to the school will be USD350. This amount ofmoney will be collected from the students upon registration.

• USD20 will be collected upon registration for school ID and library.

• Students will receive a school uniform set free of charge.

• Tuition fee of the current students will be USD2875. (ZIS has theright to cancel sibling discount if one of the sisters or brotherswithdrew or graduated)

• Registration fee to the school will be USD300. This amount ofmoney will be collected from the students upon registration.

• USD100 will be collected upon registration for school ID, libraryand some stationary items.

During the course of the academic year, there may bemiscellaneous expenses that are not outlined in the "Fees Policyand Payment Information sheet", but will be charged to the parents(for example, field trips, certain after school activities,transportation, school uniform, etc.)

Fee Policy For 2009-2010

Level

Kindergarten

Primary

High School

Registration Fee(every Year)

Enrollment Fee( 1 time )only

Tuition Fee( 1 time )only

$300

$300

$350

$500

$500

$500

$2500

$2875

$2550

Level

Kindergarten

Primary

High School

Registration Fee(every Year)

Enrollment Fee( 1 time )only

Tuition Fee( 1 time )only

$300

$300

$350

$1000

$1000

$1000

$2500

$2875

$4500

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Science Project Competition

February 2009

Are you ready for the festival?

If yes, be sure about your ticket.

Small competitions, games, songs, lucky draws, and all you

have never imagined.

Let's have a blast...

Date: Saturday, February 21

Time: 08:00 -12:00

Zaman Festival

One More Novelty

for the Family of ZamanZaman teachers, who are committed to provide the best for

their present students, came up with an unprecedented new

idea. Soccer tournament, which has been organized for only

recent students for years, is going to be held for Zaman

alumni as well. The purpose of this organization is to bring

together the students who have graduated from the Zaman

International School since 2002. As a result of unanimous

decision made amongst alumni students, the initiation of

this tournament has been announced.

This tournament consists of 2 groups, each group having 5

teams. The first matches were played in Zaman High School

soccer field on February 8. The matches were between the

teams 2005 B – 2006 B and 2007 B - 2008 B classes.

Here are results;

(2007 B) 4 – 6 (2008 B)

(2005 B) 3 – 2 (2006 B)

We wish best of luck to all participants.

whose project is chosen is

going to present their project in

front of judges.

When students present their

projects to judges, they are

supposed to have a chart. The

chart size must be 1.2m wide

and 1m high.

As a final elimination only one

project will be chosen from

each field of science. However,

if any project does not live up to

standards required by judges,

it will not be recognized.

The final elimination and

selection of the contest will be

held on Saturday, 21 March

2009.

Awards;

The projects that are chosen as

winners will receive Gift

Coupon Worth of 100 USD.

All students are invited to join

Science Project Competition in

the areas of Mathematics,

Physics, Chemistry, Biology,

and Computer.

The format of the science

project will be put on the notice

boards very soon.

To join, just complete a project

as described on the notice

boards and submit to your

related subject teacher until

13 March 2009.

For more information contact

your teacher.

Contest elimination will

consist of two steps.

First step; Top 5 projects will be

chosen from each field of

science.

Second step; The following

week a student or a group


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Top 10 Students Of First Term

2008-2009 Academic Year Term1High School Top Ten Graph

2008-2009 Academic Year Term1Middle School Top Ten Graph

Nary Chan Tauch12-E

Molyka Pich Nhek11-F

Chan SongPhiboun Lin

10-E

Sereyboth Savoan12-B

Nalin Chea12-F

Kolneath Pen11-A

Phalhong Mao10-E

Linda Heng11-F

Chhanak Nay12-B

Eng Sok Heng12-F

Sothira Soung Toch8-E

Chheth Chhen8-B

Viriya Keo8-F

Somonia Sophoan7-E

Lymei Sun9-E

Sokly Ny9-A

Sreyleak Nop8-E

Virabot Sok8-E

Dory Samy8-E

Sean Por Chhim9-E

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didn't play at that time, and Ranowas helping Mr.Gurkan with thefood. He was trying to lit the fireby fanning the ember. He didn'treally know how to do it, but Hejust did it because he was told todo so. Later on, we started toplay another kind of Khmer gamecalled "Sey". We played it alltogether and stood in a shape ofcircle. The one who couldn't get"Sey" by kicking them with footwould be punished. Thepunishment was very simple. Weasked them questions, and theyhad to tell the truth. If not, therewould be consequences

Oh, haven’t I told you yet whatkind of food we had. Guess what,it was kind of BBQ (It's barbecueactually). We had chicken andbeef (according to what Mr.Alitold us that time, the beef wasmixed with some sort of specialspicy ingredients from Turkey).The meat was grilled on longmetal bars over an open flame.Each of us took one box of rice asside dish, and we went to get themeat. First, Mr.Gurkan servedeach of us with the chicken. Wesat in circle shape (there was nofire in the middle like in mostmovies because we hadelectricity and the weather waspretty hot. Instead, there werecans of coke). After a while,

t was nearly 5 months aftergraduation day, everything ofIour school years seems to be

very fresh in our memories justlike it happened yesterday. Wemiss our good time we spent atZAMAN. We miss each otherand surely our teachers as well.We miss our trips that we used totake to various places. To cut itshort, we miss everything we had5 years ago.Although some of ushave chance to meet each other,we are still separated because ofdifferent pathways we chose inpursuit of education and career.Moreover, some of our dearfriends have already goneabroad to pursue their studiessuch as Panha (to Canada sincegrade 10), Daro (to Turkey),Eamsea (to Malaysia), Sambath (to Italy), Nivoith (to Australia),Hak Seng (to Singapore),Panhawatt (to Sigapore),andBunrath (to USA). There aresome other guys such asRatanak, Rithy, Kimvan, Bunly,and me who are willing to goabroad too. That's why on 29thDecember 2008 (2009 was only2 days away from us) we, 17students of 12B, arranged areunion party at ZAMAN. It wassuch a happy time for us. Weenjoyed it very much. Let mebriefly describe it.

First, Mr.Gurkan planned to go toKompungsoum, but since mostof us were busy with theirstudies, we couldn’t go. So wedecided to make a reunion party somewhere downtown. I leftschool (IFL) at 4:30 that time,and I went to buy 20 boxes of ricefor the party. Once I arrived atZAMAN at 5:30, the first thing Idid was to greet my teachers, Mr.Gurkan (our homeroom andphysics teacher) and Mr. Ali (our math teacher). We would like tosee Mr. Osman among us, butunfortunately, he couldn’t attendthe party. There I saw some of myprecious friends had arrivedalready and they were playingfootball. Everyone seemed to behappy to meet each other. Soly

Eamsea, who is now staying inMalaysia, started to say goodbyeto friend as he was going to leaveCambodia the following day.Then he bid us farewell and toldus "I'll miss all of you. I’m verygrateful to Zaman for organizingsuch a wonderful activity and for enabling me to get to know thesefriends. I love all of you and I'llalways remember and keep allthese good memories in myheart. We'll soon meet eachother again in the future,hopefully".

It was such sad moment, butnobody cried or even shed a tearfor that... Instead, we just keptsmiling and laughing, becausewe all are good at teasing eachother. We wanted him to feelhappy that time. We had so muchfun. As for the chicken, it wasd e l i c i o u s . We d e v o u r e deverything in our plates in amatter of minutes. Then weasked Mr.Gurkan for some more.This action repeated again,again, again and again until therewas nothing left. At last the timehas come for the beef. Wecouldn't finish all of it because wewere full as we had eaten a lot ofchicken already. But we still atemost of it. There was little left.Umm... and after the meal, wejust kept talking about the past

and other stuff we experiencedall together. Then it was time fortaking photos for memories.This time we took it in a newstyle. We lied down on the grassas the shape of letters: Z, A, M,A, N. After taking pictures, wecleared up the area that we usedand left everything as clean aswe found it.One thing is for sure, when youhave fun, u don’t realize howquickly time passes by. A fewhours passed already as winkedour eyes. As activity wasapproaching its end, we had tosay goodbye to each other andto the teachers. The best thingwas that when we left, it startedto rain, so we got wet, and all ofus rode motorbikes back homewith happy and soaked hearts.When I arrived home, and Icaught a cold (not really a cold,just didn't feel quite well). Well,that's all. Hope you all enjoyedreading it as much as I didwriting it for an hour or so.And I hope that all my friendswho are now studying abroad,after reading this, even if youcouldn't join the party, at leastyou can feel the happiness andanxiety which I tried to conveyvia this article. I hope to see yousoon enough. Bye until nextactivity.

Written by Darapheak Tin

12-b (2007-2008) Reunion

February 2009


accomplished the expectedcriteria of judging. As expected,“Good works deserve merits”, wewere rewarded with cash whichwe used in recreation. We wentto Water Park and enjoyed ourprize. Our trip was on January 7,2009. All our friends gathered inschool and departed at 7:30 inthe morning with Mr. Adem ourhomeroom teacher. Then, when

Every term, ZIS is conducting asurvey among the cleanestclassrooms in boys’ and girls’side. Both home room teachersand students worked hand inhand to come up with the mostcaptivating bulletin boards andthe tidiest classroom.During the first term, our class 9-B got the prize of the cleanestclassroom in boys’ side. We

everything and everybody wereready, we all headed to WaterPark.When we arrived at Water Park,we looked for a place where wecan put their belongings. Then,we changed clothes and startedto enjoy the water. We really hada great time splashing and divingin the pool. The most amazingwas the “snakelike” slide where

our friends fell in line and wentdown altogether. Some enjoyedtaking pictures in their best posewith the nicest views. Laughterwas everywhere. Everybodyenjoyed that day.Lunchtime came; all our friendsenjoyed our packed lunch. Weshared foods with each other.After eating, we dived again intothe water, trying to make themost of the time. At 3:00 p.m,everybody packed up and gotready to go home. Most weretired, but still we were all veryhappy.9-B class wished they will winthe same prize next time.

The Cleanest Class The Best Prize 9-B’s Escapade To Water Park

PARKWAY to spend the moneytogether and enjoy ourselves.We went there on 30th ofDecember 2008 and we had a lotof fun. First we went on bumpercars for a few rounds.The place

where we rode the bumpercars was very noisy; it

was filled with musicand our laughter.

After that wewanted to try

bowling soour teacher

On December 2008, the schoolannounced the winners for theCLEANEST CLASS OF 1STTERM, and our class, 7-E wonthe first place for the cleanest class. Theschool gave us100 dollarsas a prize.S o o u rteacher Mrs.G r a c edecided totake us on at r i p t o

led us to the bowlingsession. Firstly, wehad to rent a pair ofshoes each and thenwe can go and playbowling. Everyonew a s e x c i t e dbecause most of usnever play bowlingbefore. When westarted playing wefound out that theball was heavy butthat didn’t stop someof our friends fromplaying it well. Aftera while we got tired

from all the bowling so ourteacher asked us whether wewanted to go and have lunch butall of us said no because wewanted to ride bumper carsAGAIN. So we rode it for twomore rounds and it was time tohave lunch. We had our lunch atT&C for half an hour and it wastime to go home.We would like to thank theschool for giving us the prize andthe teacher for leading us on thet r i p . W e r e a l l y e n j o y e dourselves!

Written by: Vorackthyda Ney

Cleanest Class Of Girl SIDE

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February 2009


one roar went up from thea s s e m b l e d s t u d e n t sdemonstrating their exuberancefor what was soon to follow.

The room became quiet as thequiz began and all four teamshad the same number of pointsafter the first two questions.Then 7E chose the bonus forquestion number three and theywere the only team to getquestion number three correct!Thus 7E was twenty pointsahead of all the others, and they

The conference hall was these t t i ng fo r the grade 7competition on Friday, January16th. The event was organizedby the English Department andemceed by Alisher Matkulov whoalso designed the visuals withwhich the questions weredelivered to the teams and theaudience.

At the start of the event you couldfeel the excitement in the room.A party like mood filled the room.As the judges entered one by

stayed ahead until the finish,winning the contest.

The race in term of points wasclosest between 7A and 7B. Thetwo classes were dead evenafter 10 questions but 7B had a10 point advantage afterquestion number 15, whichstretched to 20 points by the endof the competition.

The final scores were 7A with150 points, 7B scored 170points, 7E's total was 230 points,

and 7F finishing with 80 pointsdue to some bad luck with theirchoices of bonus questions. Congratulations to all thestudents who took part. 7A'sspirit stayed high and even afterall the points were tallied theychanted "7A!....7A!......7A!"demonstrating that the spirit ofcompetition is very much alive intheir class even when they arenot victorious and that they willbe back in the future to fightagain and perhaps, with luck, to prevail next time!

Sevens Meet And Compete

February 2009

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things in English Club. I learnedhow to make the best projectsand even learned how to practicewell my speaking with my clubfriends and teacher. Most of all, Ilearned how to make crafts out ofpapers into shapes of my favoredanimals and things and more....

Seakhouy Lau: I had a lot of funin English Club. I’m not onlyimproving my creativity but alsomy speaking. I learned how tomake designs, sing, and interactwith friends through English. Imet new friends and newteacher.

Moninech Piseth: In this club, Ilearned how to make a picture

ims of the club: CreativeMinds and Hands ofAEnglish- English project

club that enhances the creativityand know ledge o f eachparticipating students. This clubfocuses on the cognitive andmanipulative aspects of eachstudent making them confidentand competitive in the field ofEnglish. Aside from boosting uptheir skills, they are alsod e v e l o p i n g w e l l t h e i rinterpersonal relationships while dealing with other level students.This club also aims to produceEnglish projects that areinformative, useful, unique,attractive, and environment-friendly. This project will alsofocus on using recyclablematerials which could be of greathelp in minimizing financialexpenses and environmentalproblems. This club is lookingforward in the improvements ofall the participating students.

ORGANIZATIONALLIST:TEACHER: Miss MaritessCarbon SuarezMembers: 7721 Rany Chan8901Liyong Sok

7713 Moniroth Nou8 9 0 3Raksmey Panha Veng

7715 Porhour Ly8 9 0 5Povthida Cheak

7738 Youly Eng8 9 2 7Seakhouy Lau

7750 Moninech Piseth8 9 3 5Lychheng Som

Here are some feedbacks of the members of this club:

Liyong Sok: I am one of themembers of English Club. I hadmade my colourful poster andbeautiful board designs. Ilearned several designs and wealso have a clever teacher. Ireal ly enjoyed decorat ingprojects. I want to thank myteacher for teaching me a lot ofknow ledge and c rea t i veteachniques.

Povthida Cheak: I really hadgreat time designing posters anddecorating boards. In this club, Iwas able to make alligators out ofcolourful papers and otherinteresting things. I really lovethis club because I learned a lotfrom it.

Porhour Ly: I learned a lot of

frame out of recycled materialsand I improved my knowledge ofEnglish, my creativity andresourcefulness as well.

Rany Chan: In this club, Ienjoyed working in groups anddesigning my own project. Ii m p r o v e d m y p e r s o n a lrelationship with the otherstudents.

Moniroth Nou: This club taughtme how to decorate and makeprojects using old materials andwe also learned a lot of ideasdoing nice projects from internet and from the rest of my friends.

Youly Eng: As a member of

English Club, I learned a lot ofideas from my friends and frommy teacher. I learned how tocome up with a creative projectby myself. I am enjoying and atthe same time I’m learning a lotfrom this club.

Raksmey Panha Veng: I am amember of English Club. Thisclub was indeed enjoyable andhelpful for students. I gainednew knowledge from my friends and teacher. I even made newfriends.

Lychheng Som: English Clubhelped me and my friends a lot inimprov ing our speak ing,interpersonal relationship,creativity, initiative, diligence,hard work, knowledge andconfidence as well. I had a lot ofunforgettable memories in thisclub.

Learning English is easy andfun. It doesn’t merely improve injust reading books and casualconversations. It can beenhanced in other ways. To thestudents, try to be resourcefuland outgoing. Discover morelearning tactics in learningEnglish, the fastest and mosteffective way.

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English Is Fun With Us: English Project Club

February 2009


homeroom teacher, we put all thethings necessary to preparelunch on the table and discusswhat we should do next. Whilewe were discussing our friendsarrived one by one. When therewere around 8 students, Mrs.Grace took us to see the girls’dormitory, which is the nextbuilding to her house. We went inand meet the supervisors, whostayed at the dorm. They took usaround the house. They showed

t was 29th of December; ournew homeroom teacherIMrs.Grace invited us to her

house for lunch. We decided tomeet at her house at 10:30 AM toprepare lunch together. I arrivedthere at 10:30 sharp. I thought Iwas the first to arrive but when Ientered the house, I saw two ofour friends: Pichny and Pharywho had already arrived. Theyhad arrived at 10:00. After awarm gree t ing f rom our

us the room where we will sleep,the place we can study, kitchenand the place we can relax andwatch TV. We were all veryimpressed about the dorm andstarted to ask each other aboutstaying at the dorm. After thedorm tour, we asked permissionfrom Mrs. Grace to go to Star–Mart to buy the materials thatwe didn’t have. While we wereabout to go, some of our friendsarrived. So our homeroom

teacher took them fordorm tour again and6 of us, includingSevde, Mrs.Grace’sdaughter, went toStar-Mart. When wecame back to thehouse, we saw thatthey were preparingfood. The food wep r e p a r e d w a s :Sausages, springro l l s , spaghet t i ,French fries, saladand syrup. We allhad a fun t imepreparing the foodand playing aroundwith each other. At 1o’clock, all the foodwere ready. We allstarted to eat, butbefore eating, theone thing we can

never forget is taking phototogether. After this enjoyableand delicious meal, we were sofull. Some of us couldn’t walk or sit straight. After we relax a bit,we s ta r ted c lean ing upeverything and went to the TVroom to watch movie with Orhanand Sevde, but that was not theend of our lunch. Mrs. Grace hadprepared dessert and tea for us.The dessert was very delicious.There wasn’t a single piece ofleft over on the tray. We werehaving so much fun, howeverthe time had come. We all had tosay goodbye and thank Mrs.Grace for the wonderful mealand went home one by one.

In addition, we’d like to thankMrs. Grace for this deliciousmeal and warm greetings fromher and her lovely children (wehad so much fun playing withOrhan and Sevde). Thanks forputting us at ease and made usfeel like it was our home. It wasan unforgettable memory andwe want to have this kind ofactivity again.

Written by:12- Class2008-2009

Most Enjoyable Meal Ever

February 2009

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the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd2.American Intercon Schoolawarding the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd3.Norton UniversityAwarding the1st4.Banana Institute awarding the1st5.ELT School awarding the 3rd6.Karate Club of KHUN Sportawarding the 2nd7.Doun Penh Karate Clubawarding the 2nd8.New World Karate Clubawarding the 3rd9.Karate Organization of Ministryof National Defense performedtheir techniques.10.Cambodia TONG IL-MODOConfederation performed theirtechniques.11.World OVEY KAI Confedera-tion performed their techniques.12.KarateAssociation of Ministryof National Defense performedtheir techniques.After giving the awards, Mr.KONG Chan Thol, Chairman ofCambodia Japan and GermanyFriendship School KarateC o n f e d e r a t i o n a n d t h eSecretariat of Cambodia KarateOrganization said that this year

Cambodia Japan and GermanyFriendship School KarateConfederation was celebratedon the 21st December, 2008 atZaman International School

At 7:00 o’clock in the morning onthe same day at ZamanInternational School (Highschool campus), held the Karatecompetition of 2008 which wasrun by the Cambodia Japan and Germany Friendship SchoolKarate Confederation, attendedfrom various Karate Association and clubs from different schools.Especially the presence of H.ECHEY Chap, Secretariat ofMinistry of Education Youth andSport and the Chairman ofCambodia TONG IL-MODOConfederation accompaniedwith the schools’ leader andstudents’parents.After gathering, Mr. OsmanKARACA, Principal of Zamangave the speech to the audiencethat he was so proud to behosting this great ceremony and that was the first time for Zamanto hold that valuable program inits campus. This showed thatZaman is not only the placewhere education is provided, butalso the place to upgrade thesport field in order to producequalified young generationsaccording to the Recommenda-tion of HUN Sen, Prime Ministerof Cambodia that “Doingexercise and Sport brings usgood health”.After the Principal’s speech wasfinished, the entire competitionstarted by awarding the First,Second and the Third place toUniversities, Institutes, Schools,Organizations, and other clubssuch as:1.Zaman Karate Club awarding

the Karate Competition was heldbigger than the other yearsbecause of the presence of H.ECHEY Chap also the Germanand French Karate Leaders aswell as the miscellaneous KarateClubs from other places andschools.Addition to that the ceremony

aimed to promote the sport fieldwithin internal and externalschool area. He continued thatnext year he would organize thegreater competition according tothe school that wanted to be thehost. Lastly, he would like toexpress his gratitude to ZamanInternat ional School thatsponsored everything to thisprogram. He expected that in thenext competition Zaman wouldreceive 1st, 2nd, and 3rd like thisyear. Not only that , he alsohoped that Zaman InternationalSchool would be the hosting thecompetition for next year if theother schools do not accept toprepare such a program like this.After the speech of Mr. KONGChan Tho l , cha i rman ofCambodia Japan and GermanyFriendship School KarateConfederation and Secretariat ofCambodia Karate Organization,Mr. ROEUNG Somontha, KarateTeacher from Germany and thedonor of Cambodia Japan andGermany Friendship SchoolKarate Confederation gave thespeech that all the studentsshould try hard to train very wellbecause he will give scholarshipto study in Germany like theother years which he had givenscholarship to two students.H.E CHEY Chap, Secretariat ofMinistry of Education Youth andSport and the Chairman ofCambodia TONG IL-MODOConfederation gave the closing

speech that nowadays not onlyKarate which is upgraded verymuch but also all kinds of fieldspor ts accord ing to therecommendation of HUN Sen,Prime Minister of Cambodia that“Doing exercise and sport bringsus good health”. Especially hesaid that he would like studentswho love Karate to learn Karate in order to help weak people orfulfill their job but do not use it inthe bad ways.

He added that he really lovesthis sport because it not onlybrings us good health but it is souseful for protecting ourselves.Moreover, he would like toexpress a million thanks toMr.Osman KARACA, thePrincipal of Zaman InternationalSchool who has spent hisvaluable time to prepare thisgreat competition which peoplejoined such as national andinternational guests, journalists,and TV staff from differentChannels. This shows that thec o m p e t i t i o n i n Z a m a nInternational School was biggerand greater than the other yearsand he also hoped that it wouldbe much better in the future.Finally, he would like to givecomments to competitors andstudents to pay attention tostudies and spend their timetraining different kinds of sportbecause sports can bring usgood health and intelligence,make us brave, good will andalso can solve many difficultiesthat befall us.After the speech of H.E CHEYChap, the program ended withtaking photos and snacks.Prepared by Cambodia KarateOrganisation.

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student.Dormitory system in Zaman is toprovide not just a place to sleepand study, but also opportunitiesfor personal and educationalgrowth. The homeroom teacherof each class along withsupervisors (all Turkish) supportthis objective by creatinge n g a g i n g a c t i v i t i e s a n dprograms as well as cooking andserving meals and snacks.

TWO NICE DAYS AT ‘HUZURDORMITORY’WITH 8-B

aman International Schoolopened 2 dormitories inZ2008.The boys dormitory

i s n a m e d ‘ H U Z U RDORMITORY’situated 2 minutesaway from school.

The girls’ dormitory named‘SEVGI DORMITORY’is situated5 minutes away from school.Both buildings are very secure.All the sleeping rooms have ACand attached bathroom and abed for each person. Mostimportantly STUDY ROOM withstudy table and chair for each

We were so happy when weheard that we will stay at thedormitory. Our homeroomteacher Mr.Mustafa Ercan hadchosen 8 students from top tenNarong,Chheth,Seyha,David,Visal,Putik,Oudam,Lydeth to stayf o r t w o n i g h t s a t t h edormitory.Before we went therewe had a meeting with ourhomeroom teacher about thestaying overnight program at thedormitory. From the meeting weunderstood that during thefollowing two days we will studyALOT.

On Wednesday evening, (whichwas a holiday) we arrived thereat 5 o’clock with our parents.When we arrived there ourhomeroom teacher, Mr. DavutPhysics teacher and in- chargeof ‘Huzur Dormitory’,and oursupervisors were already therewaiting for us. Then Mr. Mustafagave the program to our parents.Later he took our parents for atour of the villa so that all of themwould feel comfortable abouteverything from securi ty,sleeping room, bathroom, study room, to kitchen etc.

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ormitory teaches usabout our own livingDm e t h o d s s u c h a s

cooking, ironing, doing laundryand so many more. These are allthe activities that we have to doby ourselves. Besides theseactivities we have to studyseriously. Dormitory is fun andenjoyable.Dormitory is one of the schoolactivities. And about one monthago, on 22nd December, 2008,six students from my class (9E)participated in this activity.

When we returned from school,at first, we had bath then westudied, had dinner and beforegoing to bed, teatime played apart to amuse us before the finalof strenuous day. We sang,danced and ate some snacksuch as: fruits, chocolate, ice-cream, cake, sweets and drankLipton or herbal tea.Moreover, I can’t stop admiring afood called “Mak Lu Be”. It’s akind of Turkish Food.All of us caneat together in one big round trayand the taste is totally fantastic.

After our parents left we ateTurkish food for dinner, had tea,and studied for 3 hours. We alsoplayed some funny games.Everything was perfect andenjoyable. Then we went tosleep at half past ten. Next day inthe morning when we got up weprepared Melemen(Turkishbreakfast)with our teacher. Aftereating breakfast we went toschool by our homeroomteacher’s car. After school againour teacher took us there and westarted to study. At 6 o’clock wehad dinner after that we studiedagain for about 3 hours. Then wehad a discussion with ourhomeroom teacher about ourschool life, lessons, class, andplan our activities. We slept ateleven. Next day after breakfastwe went to school. Our short butwonderful stay at the dormitoryended. We hope to stay thereagain and again because it waslike a nice dream and we don’twant to wake up. We want tothank Mr Mustafa, Mr Davut and our supervisors for everything.Written by: Narong 8-B

Over and abovethat, I still can’tforget a momento n 2 5 t h o fD e c e m b e rw h i c h w a sChristmas Day.We spent thatnight togethercounting downthe year as NewYear was just 6days away. It’llbe one of them o s tm e m o r a b l eevent of my life.Eventually, ify o u h a v e achance to jointh is ac t iv i t y,don’t miss yourh a r d l y e v e ropportunity. AndI believe thatyou ’ l l der ivegreat pleasuref r o m e v e r ysecond of it.

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Among the many clubs in ourschool Turkish Olympiad cluband Turkish Traditional DanceClub decided to have a joint clubprogram on 6th of January, 2009,to share and show their skills.The atmosphere in the room wasvery nice, everyone was happyand excited. First students fromthe Traditional Dance Clubdressed in beautiful TurkishTraditional dresses performedTurkish traditional dances. It waswonderful to see Cambodians inTurkish dresses. Then, it is timefor Turkish songs from OlympiadClub. Olympiad Club has beentraining students to participate inTurkish Olympiad to be held inIstanbul and Ankara. Theyperformed songs like BenimK o y u m u n Ya g m u r l a r i &Sultanim. Everybody liked thesongs very much. It was veryexciting and breathtaking towatch dances and listen tosongs from other countryper formed by our fe l lowstudents. Ms Vesile served usdelicious 'Kofte' which is atraditional Turkish dish preparedby her. It was very nice for us to

exchange our experience andwe felt like we were in Turkey.Lastly, we want to say thanks toMs. Vesile and Mrs.Yasemin (ourOlympiad and our Turkishtraditional dance teachers) whohad arranged this wonderfulmeeting for us… hope we canhave a great time again…Written by MonyneathLim

Written by: Lymei Sun Class: 9E

An Afternoon To Be Remembered

ZAMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL NEWSPAPER

Khmer-American Orphanagevisit (4B)On Friday 23 of January 4B classwent to Khmer-Amer icanOrphanage to deliver thedonation boxes to the orphans.Our students were very excitedas they wanted to help. Theyhelped to pack the boxes andwere full of enthusiasm. Whenwe arrived, kids were waiting for us. They were very happy whenour students performed for themand finally gave them the boxeswith rice, milk, noodles, candiesand stationeries. It was great tosee the orphans` smiles.Ourmain purpose was reached; ourstudents felt joy of sharing and

Asolidarity journeyWe made a trip to KOMAKOM-PHREA ASIA Orphanage onFriday, 23rd January 2009. Weleft the school at 10am andreturned back at 12.15pm. It wasa long journey as the Orphanagewas quite a distance away fromthe school.

There was much chatter in thebus – as any field trip calls fore x c i t e m e n t a n d f u n –irregardless of the destination! Icould only regard that as thesimplicity and innocence of achild’s mind.Give and it will begiven back to you.It is moreblessed to g ive than toreceive.You never walk awayempty when you give.On and on Icou ld quote verses thatexemplified the positives ofgiving. But the very actions andsights of our trip to theK O M A K O M P H R E A A S I Aorphanage – could not havespoken the message of solidaritymore deeply into the hearts of mystudents than any verses that Icould quote.

What a sight greeted us!Children running gleefully towelcome us and show us theirplace. There was an incessantchatter and excitement aboutthem. This time – my studentskept quiet and watched. Theyhelped carry the boxes of giftofferings that they had previouslyprepared and handed them overto the Head of the Orphanage.For the rest of the hour – we weretaken on a tour of the place. Ourfirst stop was the babies room. Itwas bare. We moved over to thelittle kids quarters – bare .Ourlast stop was the kitchen – it wasbare as well.Out of their lack andbareness – these kids and theheads of the Orphanage, filledour hearts with gratitude. We feltg r a t i t u d e a n d a d e e pappreciation for what wepossessed in comparison tothem.

We left after a while of chattingwith the kids and a rendezvous ofphoto taking with some reallychubby and cute babies.When we bade farewell, the kidssurprised us with a box full ofmangoes! We were pleasantlysurprised by their generosity.Younever walk away empty whenyou give...How true indeed!

helping the needy in thecommunity.

Giving a Helping Hand to theNeedy One’sIt is the beginning of a new year,a time when many of uscontemplate changes to improveour lives.Here in Cambodia, theywere celebrating “SolidarityWeek” last January 15-17,2009.Zaman International Schoolactively participated on the saidevent. Students, parents,teachers and staff donated anyamount to buy rice, milk,noodles, etc. Boxes wered e l i v e r e d a n d g i v e n t oorphanages.

My Grade I-B class together with4B class went to Khmer-American Orphanage. Mystudents were exposed at theirearly age on how to give ahelping hand to the needy ones.Their eyes were awaken forthose unfortunate children whodon’t have family. They saw theactual situation on how thechildren live, how they dress andwhere they slept. They even sawpoor babies and took somephotos. They also rendered asong to entertain the children.These questions kept lingeringin my mind. What will be theirfuture? Are they going to staythere forever? But on the otherside, who knows? We don’tknow what lies ahead. Maybeone of them will becomeimportant person in their countryor should I say in the wholeworld.

3A Students extended theirhands to the needyZaman International Primaryschool celebrated its 2nd yearsolidarity festival 2009.This occasion is no longer newfor my students since they hadbeen exposed to this type ofactivity from last year.

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Development Organization” tospend their time in silence withthe needy by doing good deedsfor the people around – helping insmall ways without expecting inreturn. This really motivatesthem to be kind, generous and dosome th ing good w i thou texpecting fame or appreciation.B i g t h a n k s t o Z a m a nInternational School!

SOLIDARITY FESTIVAL-5AMy class were already askingwhen they are going to startpacking up the solidarity boxesand schedule to give. What anoisy “Yehey !” when theirallotted time was stated.Because they were motivated to buy the “ Whose the most packedsolidarity boxes” challenge, itwas such heart-warming to see them so energized and helpfulwith each other making theboxes,putting milk, rice, candypack, school supplies andnoodles in every box andcarrying it in pile. In just 30minutes, they had ovelwhelming 209 boxes!

On 22nd of Jan. at exactly 9 o’clock in the morning, all studentsfrom 3A class went to visit then e w f u t u r e f o r c h i l d r e norphanage at Toulkork. When wearrived there , the Director of thesaid organization together withthe less fortunate childrenwelcomed us with smiles on theirfaces. They all seemed so happyand excited to see the studentsfrom Zaman school.

Af ter a few moments ofwelcoming and greeting, thestudents helped in taking outthe boxes from the truck. Theywere so eager to carry the boxesbecause they wanted to give bythemselves to the poor childrenin that orphanage. It was really atiring day for the children, butthey all seem so active duringthat day. After we handed all theboxes, we prepared a shortprogram for all. 3A studentspresented some songs andgames. The children from thatorphanage also presented awonderful traditional dancepresentation to our students.They all enjoyed cheering andclapping their hands while thechildren had their presentations. When the program ended, ourbrothers and sisters thanked usall for our visit. My students wentback to school with full ofhappiness on their faces. Theyreally had a great experienceduring that day.

Act of Kindness: Love Drive“There is no exercise better forthe heart than reaching andlifting people up” – John AndrewHolmes. Last January 22, 2009,the 3C class went to “Childrena n d P o o r C o m m u n i t y

Friday, Jan. 23 came that we setout to distribute the boxes atSFODA orphanage. Though theafternoon was no doubt hot, 5Awere still excited to help carry thegoods from the truck to theorphans seat. They sang themtwo songs too which no matterthey got out of tune, their smilesand happy faces won the lessprivilege kids. They showersome candies as well before theybade goodbye which made thehosts got out from their seats andramble for the candies.

It was absolutely wholesome forthe kids to trigger their ability toextend hands to those who areneedy and a big hope and joy forthe orphans that their co-Cambodian kids care for them.As 5A always mention, “Teacherit’s always fun to help ! “

Solidarity-1C

Solidarity is one way of unitingpeople which have a commoninterest. Zaman InternationalSchool initiated a solidarityfestival to help the less fortunateespecially the needy people.

The Grade 1- C students werevery lucky to be part of thisfestival because at their veryyoung age they experiencedalready the importance ofhelping other people by means ofdonating money heartily.

The Grade 1-C students weregiven the chance not only todonate money to help but also toexperience being with thechildren they are helping in the“New Future for Children”orphanage. I could say that mystudents were very happybecause they even participatedand took turns in giving the boxes

to the children in the orphanage.They enjoyed the activity morewhen we had our short program.The orphanage’s director gave ashort message. Though it wasjust a short message, I’m sure itwill remain in the mind and heartof my students forever. Thechildren in the orphanage alsorendered a beautiful dance toshow their gratitude to us. Mystudents were astonished by thedance. My students alsovolunteered to dance during theprogram to share also theirtalent.

I would like to thank the parentsof my students for helping usrealized this activity and mostespecially for allowing them toexperience and enjoy sharingwhat they have to the poorchildren in the orphanage.

Solidarity Campaign-Kolap-421st January, 09 is a memorableday for many of our classmatesof 2A. On that day, we visited anorphanage named-kolap-4 toexpress our solidarity with theparentless and disadvantagedchildren there. And at the sametime we learned that howfortunate we are that we got ourparents and how important theyare to us. We can enjoy goodlives with better school, bighouse and nice family car and onthe other hand, those orphans orchildren of disabled parents areliving on others’ mercy but theyare struggling hard for thebetterment of their lives.

We started from our schoolcampus at 9:00 am and shortlywe reached the orphanage atk o l a p - 4 ( s a n g k a t t o e u klaork,Tuol kork, Phnom Penh)We carried with us 75 foodpackages. The food packageswere arranged from theoutcomes of our school’sSolidarity Festival where we allcontributed .The orphanagemanager and the orphanchildren there warmly welcomedus. At the beginning we were notfeeling comfortable with thearrangement as there was noair-condition and it hot out there.But our class teachers couldmotivate us to stay together forshort time and our classroomteacher Farjana gave a speechfor all. We came to know thateven though they are not havinga good living but they are tryinghard to do well in their study sothat they can change their lives.


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from province and we saw theirroom. Their room doesn’t haveeven fan, TV, air-conditioner andeverything else. We saw theirkitchen. It was not so big andlunch area is not so clean andeveryone are in need so we gavethem the box of sugar, rice,noodle, milk book, pen, pencil,balloon, eraser and candy. Weare so happy when we gavesome food and some studythings. They were very veryhappy when they took the boxes,too.

Written by Sokunnita Chay &Rithya Mong Dom (3B)

Some of them can speak goodEnglish and like to be doctor,some engineer, some teacherand so on. We distributed thefood packages among them andon return, the orphanagemanagement handed over acertificate of thanks to us.Afterward we passed a goodtime all together and playedgames with them. We come backto our school on 10:00am withthe memory of smiling faces ofour deprived friends and ofcourse with lifetime learning.

3B’s SOLIDARITY VISIT TOPREAK BRA CENTER ALLABOUT THE ORPHANAGEThe name of the orphanage that we went was Preak Bra Center.We left the school at 10:00 am. Itwas so far from our school , so ittake more time and until we go toour orphanage we saw manypoor people and the principal ofthe orphanage told us that thispeople was from 5 years old to 17years old and most of them come

WHEN WE GO TO THEORPHANAGEWhen we go to the orphanage itis a little far. When I went there Isaw orphans, they were sad, butwhen they saw me they werehappy. And I saw their bedroom. Their bedroom doesn’t havetelevision and computers inside. There was a very small kitchenand there were two cooks theymade food for the orphans. Theydon’t have clean tables. They eatmaybe only rice. We give boxesinside was many things likesome food and milk. When wecame back school we were veryhappy and excited because we

help poor people.

Written by Vatanak Lavan (3B)

W E W E N T T O T H EORPHANAGE

We went to the orphanage bybus. We went to the orphanageat 22 of January 2009. It is far.The orphanage is a very bigplace for the children that haveno parent. The children take usfor a look at their room. We saw that all of their room has notelevision. They even don’t havea fan in their room. Their bed hastwo layers and they don’t havetheir own room. Then they tookus looked at their kitchen and theplace that they ate their foodevery day. When they took for a look finish, we gave them boxesof rice, milk, noodle, book,balloon, pen, pencil and candy.We came back at 12:00. I feltvery happy, excited when I helpsome poor people. I always wantto help If I have a chance.

Written by Lucklita Theng (3B)


We have finalized this year’s SOLIDARITY FESTIVAL with greatsuccess. We would like to extend our sincerest thanks and deepestappreciation to all including parents, students, teachers andassistant teachers, who have supported the campaign with theirinvaluable donations and helping hands. We have visited 10different orphanages with grade 1-5 students.

Please, see the list below for details.

Best regards.

Administration

NAME-CLASS AMOUNT

1. 4A2. 1A3. 3B4. 3C5. 2C6. 4B7. 1B8. 5A9. 3A10. 2B11. 1C12. 2A13. K2A14. K2B15. 4C16. K1ARaised at FUNFAIRTOTAL

$315$224.75$170$152.5$135$132.5$110.75$110$110$105$102.25$82.5$75$65$55$501092.3$3087.8

LIST OF EXPENSES

1. RICE:

2. STATIONARY:

3. MILK:

4. NOODLES:

5. SUGAR:

6. RICE DONATION TO Cambodia Daily's

Rice Donation CAMPAIGN: $600

TOTAL AMOUNT DONATED $5334.2

The amount collected

for the SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN: $3087.8

The amount that ZAMAN

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL put into

SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN: $2246.4

$1600

$1000

$1125

$480

$529.2


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Carnival Land For Zaman Primary Schoolcrowds, it’s better to arrive firstthing in the morning or later in aday.

Indoor games are some of them o s t p o p u l a r r e l a x i n gdestinations for kids – a breakfrom the frenetic pace thattypically accompanies the schoolyear. Luckily, your kids will behaving so much fun that theywon’t even noticed that they arelearning.Last, January 10, 2009, the 3Aand 3C classes went to Carnival Land (Sovanna Mall). Theyplayed many different gamesand they enjoyed a lot – trying totackle everything half day maybeso tiring and overwhelming forthem but… “Teacher, we don’twant to go home.” It soundsinteresting but we have to goback! – So sad!This is just one of the myriadopportunities to make the mostout of the less structured warm-weather activities. But to avoid

The date marks Jan. 17 whentwenty-one 5th graders joinedthe contest. They were verymuch eager at the conferenceroom that they positioned bygroup already. The game wasdivided into two categories with mul t ip le choices, solv ingmathematical problems andspelling. Topics were extractedfrom previous lessons in English,Sc ience, Math, Reading,C o m p u t e r a n d H e a l t hEducation.

Its funny and worth it seeingthem on their halt, quickresponding mind and bodywaiting for the “ go ” signal andbe the first to ring the bell just tooutwit the opponent. From alltwenty-one players down to

bottom two, four lucky winnersnamely Khunmanuth Buth, UyEang, Kimchip Phoung andSivota Thien Bun were givenwrapped prizes until the end ofthe mind-boggling challenge.

Brain Teaser Challenge

Indeed, I can say that thekindergarten students experien-ced another memorable, fun,and exciting event in theirchildhood lives that will linger intheir minds as they grow.A Fun Trip –Bumper Car Rides,Chicken Nuggets & CottonCandies (4C)As a reward for their hardwork,the Assistant Teachers and Icame up with the idea of treatingthe students to a day of total andcomplete fun. And what fun wehad! We departed at 9am fromthe school and made way toParkway Shopping Mall. Thekids and teachers were veryexcited. We arrived at ParkwayShopping Mall at 10am and thestudents immediately wanted tohead to the Bumper Car section.

It was a wonderful Saturdaymorning, on the 7th day ofJanuary. The kindergartenstudents were so excited ofgoing to school, because it wastheir first journey outside thecampus together with theirfamily, teachers and classmates.There were numerous numbersof students who joined the picnic,some of them used their own cartogether with their parents to goto the picnic site, and othersjoined us with our designatedvehicles. And off we go at around9:10 in the morning to proceed atSunsoben picnic groove. Whilewe were on our way, the bus wasfilled with laughter and fun, weshared food and exchangedsome ideas and stories. Finally,we arrived at the site between9:50 to 10:00 am. The kids were in a hurry going off the bus andstarted running around andplaying with their classmates.The teachers and parents alsohad the opportunity to get alongand talk with each otherconcerning the progress of thestudents in different aspects oflearning. During lunch time,most of the parents generouslyinvited us to join with them in theirlunch, it was a sumptuous andenjoyable meal, and everybodyhas been satisfied. We leftSunsoben at 1:10 in theafternoon and arrived safely inthe school at around 2:40 pm.

driving!As we were running late to headback to school, we didn’t go tothe bowling section though wehad initially intended to. Weinstead found ourselves feelinghungry for fried chicken and offwe went to Lucky Seven tosatisfy our hunger pangs! Weordered the food and waited. Inthe meantime there was a noisychatter amongst the students –the giddy excitement of havinghad such fun together still hadn’trubbed off them. Infact it stayedon for days to come! The sizzlinghot and crisp chickens arrivedand within seconds they were alldevoured! YUM.When we returned back toschool and the parents wereanxiously awaiting to ferry theirchildren back home – all weneeded to say to each other wasjust a simple ‘Thank You’ – butwhich resonates deep withemotions. The students had afabulous day of not only fun butwere able to express theirboundless energy in a positive,competitive way, strengthenfriendships, learning to shareand show considerations toothers and they learnt valuablelife skills on independent moneymanagement – making sure thatthey had balanced their moneywell for both fun as well as forfood!Yet another successful trip thatgeared towards enhancing lifeskills and Fun!

A handful of students were afraidof the hard bumps but eventuallyagreed to give it a try.And try theydid! These very students whohad initially shown reservations,were now hooked into the fun ofmaneuvering the car, avoidingthe bumps and yet, inadvertentlybumping hard on to others andsquealing with laughters ofexcitement and glee. After about3 sessions, I told the kids to stopand move over to the bowlingsection. It was going to be thelast round of car bumping – butthe students pleaded, “Teacherplease, one more time”. And yetonce again, “one more timeTeacher”. I found it hard to sayNO to the pleas of the studentsand relented to letting them haveanother final round of crazy car

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chance for them to have sometime with their kids in a differentplace, too. They said that SounSoban is one of nicest places tohave a picnic and not so far awayfrom Pnohm Penh,only 40 min,so we preferred there. Westarted to talk about the picnicwith kids one week before it.That's why they were veryexcited on that day and also itwas the first time that we gosomewhere together. It was the17th of January , a lovely

As Kindergar ten c lassesnormally we cannot go on fieldtrips like primary classesbecause our kids are too small togo on a trip by themselves. Asyou know Cambodia has a lot of natural places to see, it made useager to go on a picnic with ourkindergarten students so wedecided to go on a picnic not onlywith the kids but also theirparents. We shared this idea withthe parents and most of themagreed because it was a good

However, when our teacher said that wecould see more animals inside, ourexcitement doubled.

First of all, we wanted to go around the area and see all of those animals. Therewere really many types of animals in thearea such as emu, turkey, peacock,deer, squirrel and different kinds of

In early December, we had a veryenjoyable trip to Soun Soben. It was oneof the most exciting and unforgettabletrips in our lives. We left our school at08:00 in the morning and it almost tookhalf an hour to arrive in Soun Soben. Assoon as we arrived there, we sawdifferent types of animals around whichmade us very excited, of course.

Saturday morning…We plannedto leave the school at 9 am.butwe couldn't. One of our little kidsmade us a surprise. At first hisfamily said that they would joinus,they were a bit late so wewaited them to go, it was ok.When they arrived, we saw thatall the family ready to go but our little boy was crying not to comewith us. His mom and I tried topersuade him but it didn't work sothey had to go back. It is one of the reasons why we cannot go ona trip with them It was aninteresting start for us but thepicnic was really nice. Of course we arrived a bit later thanothers…

When we arrived, most of ourparents were waiting us there.Some of them came there one ortwo hours earlier. As soon as wegot off the school van, the kidsrushed to the playgroundbecause there were differenttoys. Even if our playground ismuch nicer than it, it was verypopular that day…. There was a good restaurant so deliciousfood, too. Having these deliciousmeals by the lake was veryenjoyable. While the kids wereplaying in the playground, we

thought that it was a goodopportunity to have a small chattheir parents. Since we werecrowded we couldn't sit alltogether. Group by group wetalked with the parents, askedthem about their expectationsfrom our school and discussedhow to improve the kids. Theywere having their lunch whiletalking. Both we had a good timewith our kids' parents andshared ideas to give perfecteducation to the kids. As youk n o w p a r e n t - s c h o o lcommunication is very importantfor success. It is a good idea togo on a picnic to improve ourrelationship with parents as wellsince it can be boring to meet atschool all the time. There was a small zoo, too. We saw turkeysand ostriches there, they werevery beautiful, I mean ostrichesonly.

For the k ids i t was anunforgettable day, the parentsand teachers were satisfied, too.The kids kept on talking aboutthe picnic for one week so theones who couldn't join weresad….. We understood that weshould plan more outdooractivities for kindergartenbecause our kids like it a lot…

birds. All of them were very cute and special. Wewere so busy following and playing with them thatwe didn't feel our hunger till our teacher remindedus.

We recognized how much hungry we were with theremainder of our teacher and we immediatelylooked for a place to have our snacks. It was verynice to eat and drink together in front of such abeautiful and natural scene. We really enjoyed it.After we were finished with having our snacks, itwas time to play. We teamed up in two groupswhich were called Girls' Team and Boys' Team forthe game "Tug of War." Although we tried to playthat game for a few turns, the winners neverchanged. Boys were the winners at every turn.

We also skipped rope in a different way which wasgreat and fantastic for all of us. Lastly, we decidedto play a traditional Cambodian game “LeokKonsegn" which was the most enjoyable of all.Everybody was so happy and busy playing thegames that none of us recognized that it was timeto go back to school. Our teacher reminded usagain that we had to leave.Although we were upsetthat we had to leave that nice place, we were veryhappy too. Yes, we were very happy because asfrom now we had a very nice and unforgettablememory in Soun Soben which will make us smilewhenever we remember.

3-B's ENJOYABLE TRIP TO SOUN SOBEN

K2B Class Picnic With Parents

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Khmer, History teacher. We werevery much honored with theirattendance in this trip. On theway, Mr. Baris Isik had a gamenamed as Lucky Draw and GiftCrashed. Anyway, we had rice-chicken for breakfast on the way.Right after the breakfast we fellasleep.

Finally we arrived in Seim Reapat 1 o’clock. Since we hadn’tbooked any hotel by then, wehad to spend a while to find ahotel. Finally, we found a

uring the Christmas andNew Year Eve, 11A andD8C classes have planned

to go to Seim Reap which is oneof the historical places inCambodia. On 28 of December2008 we departed from PhnomPenh at 6:30 A.M. There were 19students with 4 teachers. Werented a 25-seat minibus. Wehad with us Mr. Selmani Yazici,Homeroom teacher of 11A, Mr.Baris Isik, homeroom teacher of8C, Mr. Phit Keav, Khmer Civicteacher, and Mr. Phyrun Meas

comfor table hote l named“COZYNAHOTEL”.After about 2hours of rest at the hotel, wecontinued our trip to CulturalCenter. Unfortunately, Mr.Selmani Yazici was very ill so wehad to continue our way withouthim. Even though we physicallyleft Mr. Selman behind, we were morally and mentally right beforehim. We couldn’t stop thinkingabout him.

At the Cultural Center, wewatched 2 scenes of the showabout Cambodian culture andhistory. Then we went on visitingsome of the statues that werebuilt in some places like: RoyalPalace, Psar Thmey, andNational Museum. After that wewent to see highlander show.Another show was played aboutKing Jayarvarman VII. I tportrayed the famous king duringAngkor Era. After we visited allthose shows we came back toour hotel and prepared to go to“D’barbecue”.

On the second day, we hadbreakfast in the hotel thencontinued our trip to KulenMountain which was about 50 kmaway from the center of Seim

Reap. Fortunately Mr. Selmaniwas feeling much better, so wecontinued our way with him. Onthe way, Mr. Phyrun Meas toldus about history of sometemples while we were goingthrough them. Suddenly, wearrived at Kulen Mountain.

In order to make our trip muchmore interesting we walked along way through the jungle to1000 carvings under the stream.Then we walked through thatpart to the statue of Death-Buddha that was built on the topof the mountain. Then wewalked through jungle again tohave lunch by waterfall. Then weclimbed down the mountain tovisit Banteay Srey temple witht h e b e s t s c u l p t u r e s i nCambodia. Then we continuedour way to see the sunset atBakheng Mountain.

As we were climbing up withshort forest path to the top, othertourists were walking on the bigpath. But when we went downfrom the mountain, we couldn’tfind our bus. So, we had to goback walking. It was fun though.


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temple across Phimean Akastemple which was royal palaceduringAngkor Era. Then we wentto Preah Kanh temple. Then wereturned to the hotel to have arest. The next day we came backto Angkor Wat, where we sawApasara that came out of stirringmilky sea with gods and giantswith terrifying teeth. We played afew games at North Library andthen we made our way out of thistemple.

Then we went to “MekongRestaurant”, to our big surprize,there we met the students of 11Bwho came to Seim Reap on thesame day. As we were done withour chit chat, we said goodbye toeach other. Then we came to our

We made activities by wavingour hands to foreign touristswhile they were passing us by.That might sound a bit crazy but we were doing it with excitement.A l though everybody wasexhausted, we went swimmingand went to have dinner at“Mekong Restaurant”.

On the third day, we went to visitBayon temple that was builtduring Jayavarman VII (1181-1218) era. It was the center ofthird Angkor called “AngkorThom”. Mr. Phyrun told us thehistory of it as we listened to himas we always do in the class. Wecontinued towards Baphoun

own hotel after a long day. On thelast day we went to MilitaryMuseum where we saw some of weapons used in the time ofCambodian Republic and KhmerRouge. Then we went toCambodian National Museum in Seim Reap. We ate lunch at PsarJas then departed from SeimReap. We arrived in PhnomPenh at 8:00 P.M. On the wayback home, we offered ourh e a r t f e l t t h a n k s a n dappreciations to our teachers fortheir attendance on this trip andfor letting us have a great timewith them. Let Panhareay Pal(8C) and Sothy Song (11A)expressed their own feelings andopinions about this trip then wefinished our trip. We are looking

forward to our next tr ipsomewhere else sometime inthe future. Written by SothySong on behalf of all otherstudents.


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Documents

Zaman International School Newspaper Issue 63