Being teacher is not easy

For two weeks I've worked as an part-time English teacher at Hello American School. It's the first time I work to earn salary. Quite nervous and worrying on the first few days! I don't have many students. From 9 students on the first day to 6 now, I don't know if I'm not a good teacher or the students just didn't want to study there. I have tried to bring the class to talk during class, but most of them seem to be not willing to open their mouth at all. As I can remember the time I was studying at Hello, I also didn't talk much during class. It's the reason why I didn't improve speaking skill at all at Hello but instead at NWI where I was taught by native speakers. Therefore, I want to encourage them to talk more so that they will not follow my previous step. These six students include 4 rather outstanding ones and the remaining two is not quite able to catch up with the lessons I teach. I believe that my teaching pace is slow, so I want to increase it, but the students will have difficulty.

Hello is considering changing the policy. Class duration for each day will lengthened to one hour and a half and the school fee will also increase, and so does teacher's pay. However, I'm afraid that my students will quit their class. Hope that New Year brings good luck and success!

UC Mid-term Exam Over

After five days of hard work, the mid-term exam at UC finally comes to an end. The first stage of this term is over after all. Most of the subjects are not perfectly done; there were some questions that were answered based entirely on guessing. Hope everything will be fine.

Scholarship from Mitsubishi UFJ Foundation

December 9, 2010

It's the second time I have received the scholarship provided by Mitsubishi UFJ Trust Scholarship Foundation from Bank of Tokyo, Japan. The first time was on December 16, 2009. Mr. Hideaki Taga, the executive director of UFJ Foundation, came to Royal University of Law and Economics, Cambodia, to grant us this precious funds to support and facilitate our study.

It's the fifth time that UFJ Foundation has granted the scholarship to Cambodian students studying in RUPP and RULE; each time 10 students are granted.

I was very delighted that I was chosen to be the nominee of this grant because it's a kind of acknowledgement of my hard work and great motivation and support for my learning. Additionally, I feel extra grateful because I have received the scholarship for two years subsequently.

'The Foundation was established in 1953 with endowments from Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (originally the Mitsubishi Trust and Banking Corporation) and continues its activities in grant programs for scholarship and research every year.


There are more than five thousand domestic and international students who accomplished their study with grants from the Foundation during this half century and are now contributing in various area of society all over the world.'

For more information, go to: http://www.scholarship.or.jp/Engindex.html