Cambodians are ferocious meat and fish eaters but there seems to be a growing movement for vegetarianism. It's a growing trend amongst Taiwanese Buddhist temples who have been doing charity work and spread the dharma. With Khmer New Year and my last days in Cambodia approaching, a few of my students made vegetarian dinner for us teachers. Although I'm not entirely vegetarian, I go on spurs of meat fasting so it was such a treat.
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| Vegetarian hot pot..yum! |
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| The girls cooked at one of the girls' family owned restaurant |
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Fried rice, soup, stirfry... all Cambodian girls are such great cooks
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| Post dinner beer time |
I also want to take this moment to thank all my students. Having
never had actual classroom teaching experience, being a teacher in front
of students staring wide-eyed at me has been a scary experience. But
everyone's been so generous, kind, and forgiving it really gave me the
inspiration and integrity to give them a better education in whatever
way I could. It also gave me the time to do growing myself through
teaching these past few months.
Everyone is so eager to
learn it really made me realize how much the power of education means to
them. Education not only is acquiring knowledge but freedom and a
ticket to move upwards in society.Cambodia is still a young country but
with it's high ambitions of the younger generation, I have no doubt that
they will grow exponentially on the world platform.
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