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    Show us your Leicas

    ENRST LEITZ | LEICA IIIB (Leica F) - 1939 Now.. this is a rangefinder.... manufactured in 1933-1939 by Leica .... ... in order to look thru the viewfinder... one needs to really squint to see properly ... it is quite tiny ...... there's actually two viewfinder .. one to "see" what you are...
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    CAMBODIA | Sowree & Friends Go to School

    14. And even with having no footwear at all does not stop us from coming to school! For the sake of knowledge we will walk all the way to the peak of success. So my friends, I hope we all should not waste our resources, be thankful of what the government have been providing for us. Some are...
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    CAMBODIA | Sowree & Friends Go to School

    13. And for those who cannot afford to get a bicycle, we just walk to school, mostly in groups, comes rain, comes shine, despite not having those fancy footwears, we just walk ahead, because we wanted to gain knowledge and change our living condition.
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    CAMBODIA | Sowree & Friends Go to School

    12. . Otherwise, we just cycle to school. A good form of exercise to keep ourselves healthy, who knows we might represent the country for the Olympics!
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    CAMBODIA | Sowree & Friends Go to School

    11. Now, I will also share with you, how my other friends living on land travel to their school. For those lucky few, they are sent to the school by their father on motorbike.
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    CAMBODIA | Sowree & Friends Go to School

    Unfortunately, we do not have jetties connecting from one school to another, as each individual establishment are built on its own boat or barrage. So how do we get to school? This is how we get to school, by human powered paddle boat. That is my friend, Prak, rowing the boat to school...
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    CAMBODIA | Sowree & Friends Go to School

    9. Oh, I have not actually mentioned the whereabout of my school. This is our school. It is actually a floating school. I was informed that some of my friends in Brunei also have lots of schools built on the water, and some are connected via jetties.
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    CAMBODIA | Sowree & Friends Go to School

    8. Breaktime is one of our favourites. We can eat our food. The food are usually prepared at home by our parents, so we eat it and share it with our friends.
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    CAMBODIA | Sowree & Friends Go to School

    7. This is when my friends were shown one of our workbooks, and they were praised of having a good high marks. I am proud of them.
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    CAMBODIA | Sowree & Friends Go to School

    6. Mr. Montha is also one of our teachers. He is a very humble guy, and when we are sad, he always entertained us with his magician skills and his joke, although his jokes and magics were sometimes lame, but we just laugh with him as not to hurt his feeling. (Don't tell him that, that is our...
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    CAMBODIA | Sowree & Friends Go to School

    5. This is what we are learning today, and on the board is our alphabets. That is our teacher, Ms. Rom Chang. We love our teacher because, our teacher have taught us how to read and write.
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    CAMBODIA | Sowree & Friends Go to School

    4. These are two of my friends, Samay and Channe. Samay feels sad because this is the first time he attended the class and the first time being away from his family.
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    CAMBODIA | Sowree & Friends Go to School

    3. Not all children are able to study, my friend Sokha, is still not eligible to study, but he always come to school, watching and observing what the student are learning.
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    CAMBODIA | Sowree & Friends Go to School

    I know most of my friends around the world started their new school term last week, and now I would like to share our daily school day in where we live. 2. We have a very small wooden school in our village, it only have a single clasroom, and we have to take turn to use the area for our study.
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    CAMBODIA | Sowree & Friends Go to School

    Hi all, Sour Sdei, Happy New Year 2009! Traditionally, education were offered by the wats (Buddhist temples). Then in 1975 when Khmer Rouge regime came into power, education systems were abolished, destroying learning materials and schools. But in 1979, the new Cambodian Government came into...