This is Socheata, age 14. She is learning English in school and she wants to become a doctor when she grows up. I hope by the time she is ready to go to medical school, the teaching will no longer be in French. Would be Cambodian doctors and pharmacists still have to learn French to attend the government Faculty of Medical Sciences. Although this is a bit of an anachronism, some graduates from the medical school are then sent to France for advanced training and professors from France come to teach at the medical school. Socheata is fortunate to have been born into a family of silversmiths in a little village near Oudong, a former capital of Cambodia, not far from Phnom Penh.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
This is Socheata, age 14. She is learning English in school and she wants to become a doctor when she grows up. I hope by the time she is ready to go to medical school, the teaching will no longer be in French. Would be Cambodian doctors and pharmacists still have to learn French to attend the government Faculty of Medical Sciences. Although this is a bit of an anachronism, some graduates from the medical school are then sent to France for advanced training and professors from France come to teach at the medical school. Socheata is fortunate to have been born into a family of silversmiths in a little village near Oudong, a former capital of Cambodia, not far from Phnom Penh.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Svay Ken's painting
This is a recent painting by Svay Ken, one of Cambodia's great artists. After he survived the Pol Pot genocidal regime, he worked as a waiter at the Raffles Hotel. At age 60, he began painting. Although he continues to paint, at age 75, he is slowing down a bit and his health is not so good. A group of us went to visit him last Friday night and it did cheer him up. This painting quotes many Buddhist admonitions.
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