Meeting Leng Sopharath
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The Internet connection in Cambodia is small pipeline and slow. .typepad login page won't load! Or maybe they are down. So, I am blogging via flickr. After making the photos really small so they will upload quickly and disabled image load, I am blog reblog to typepad from my flickr account.
So, here's an account of meeting Leng Sopharath. I'm off to Roteang today.
The other highlight of my day was meeting Leng Sopharath, the college student our family sponsors through the Sharing Foundation's program. Elephant and I visited the girls dorm and we were greeted by Leng Sopharath. I got to spend about an hour and half with her - she showed me her room, her photo album, talked about her family, her daily activities, her job goals and how much appreciated the opportunity to attend the university. I was touched that our photos and the kids drawings that we exchange on a quarterly basis were on her wall.
Her dorm mates that were around gave me a tour of their rooms and we took photos. Later the boys arrived and we sat and talked. I presented them with some of the tech shirts. The young woman with the google t-shirt is a IT major! So, the shirts were very much appreciated.
In contrast to my blogging friends, I asked the college students if they knew what a blog was. They were not sure. They were familiar with google and yahoo and they use the Internet for email, but blogging was a new term for them.
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