Blanket,My Favorite Thing

Favorite things? I have many but there is only one that I really love and it’s with me many hours in a day.It was from my childhood.

My favorite thing is a normal one,hand-made by my mum with the color of red with little penguins and stars on it and made of cotton. Could you guess what it is? It’s my blanket,an old one but for me it’s very important and meaningful for me,nothing can cost it.It has been with me since I was first on this world till now, was made before I was given birth .Whenever I sleep,I always need it.That’s why I always take it with me whenever I’m away from home,long or short distances I never forget it.What I like the most about is the warmth that it gives to me is as warm as my mum hands,that reminds me of how warm I was when mum held me in her arms.It can’t cover all over my whole body now,only the above part,can not reach my legs but it still gives my whole body warmth . I’ve never thought of throwing it away although mum bought me new blankets and I’ve never used the new ones also.I sometimes argue with my mum when she gets it washed without telling me.The reason is……because I don’t want to lose the smell of that.Strange and funny,isn’t it?.That’s true,I love the smell although that’s not a nice smell but that smell remind me of myself as a small kid.Anyway,mum still takes it without telling me because if she tells me,there is no way to wash it and she doesn’t want it to be dirty also.She usually jokes about me and the blanket with her friends or any of our relatives and I just try to run away when she starts talking. ‘

Though it’s old but I love it and always take good cares of it.No matter how cold it is,with this blanket covering on my body I feel warm and fall asleep soon.

Thanks Mum for making me this lovely blanket,Love it !

P.S This story is Non-Fiction. Try not to laugh !! :D

EniX

My favorite book

In my free time I like reading. I read many kind of books for example adventure story, detective, comedy, history etc. Can guess what kind of book that I like to read? And why I like it?
Of course, I like history books, because I want to know about lives in the past and I also want to know the mysteries of each ancient temple. The book that I love was a gift from a friend of mind gave me last year, it was a thick book covered with red . It's talking about history of ancient temples in the world such as the Temple of Artemis, the Gardens of Babylon, the Great Pyramid, Statue of Zeus, Colossus of Rhodes etc. I enjoy reading that book very much and I will visit all ancient temples in the world one day.


Nissa

My favourite gift (rev)

A few years ago I got a very beautiful gift from my dearest, best friend for my birthday. It's one of my most favorite gifts ever. She gave me a necklace with a big crystal star pendant. The pendant just looks similar to lively starfish. It's just a simple crystal and it's not as expensive nor beautiful as diamonds, but I like it anyway.

The size of the pendant is as big as your thumb and the pendant changes its color according to what kind of clothes you're wearing on. If you put the pendant above light colors, the pendant will get light blue. On the other hand, if you put it above dark colors, it will get yellow. How cool is that? It looks like I have two necklaces of the same style. Whenever my friends see it, they always asked me where I had bought it so that they would be able to get one also. Unfortunately, I couldn't answer their question because it's not me who bought it.

I had been wearing it for ages, but well since my teacher told us not to wear any jewelry ( even if it's not real ), I decided to take it off and put it in a safe place so that my naughty cousin wouldn't find it and destroy it.

It does remind me a lot of our memories. At that time, I was just a quiet girl. I rarely talk to strangers nor new classmates, but that girl keep on trying to talk to me and trying to make me talk a lot. Time has passed and well, I became more friendly. I started to tell jokes and talk to strangers sometimes. I really want to thank her a lot because she's the one who make changes in me. She's an incredible friend.

( The picture looks 90% similar to my necklace. )

Monineath

My Magic Box

What do you do whenever the word BORED comes to your mind? What do you often do to erase it from your brain? Well, whatever you do just don't bang your head against the wall! That leads me of telling you my special object! Wait for it wait for it...My flat-screen television ! It always magnetize the others to gaze at it like a national treasure!
Anyway, my magic box has a night-black color which would instantly hidden from plain sight during the night. I guess it's quite a time since my uncle bought it for me since my birthday half a year ago. Still, it's always be a stress reliever to everyone who watch it!

Ati

My favorite object

My favorite object is my purple pencil. Why do I like it? Because of the color I like purple and when I am writing something or the teacher give assignments for me to write I always use this pencil . It makes me comfortable , relax happy when I use it. It helps my writing to look good. I bought it for 2 years but it is still strong and new . Some people say that things that made in Japan was strong and look great. The pencil that I use is made in Japan. That is why It is strong I do not know. Some days I would like to buy it more. If there is still has at Store. I am going to buy pink purple yellow white ...etc. Before I did not know it was good my mother told me to buy it but i refused but on my birthday she went to buy it for me. When I use this pencil it reminds me that it was my mother's present. I forget one thing is that it is an automatic pencil. I forgot the price but perhaps it was 4 or 5 dollars.

Sreylen

My all time favorite object

It is still here near my chair in ACE and Sisowat high school. I’ve taken it on every trip with my family or friends. I’ve have it since I was in grade 1 until now. It is my backpack. I use it for everything to keep books, put clothes in, studying equipment, pictures, mechanical equipment to. It is very useful because if my bicycle wheel got flat I go buy a new wheel and remove the old one by my self. If my clothes of dirtier I always have a spare shirt and pants if I go play sports with my friends. I also carry a soap and shampoo if I’m not at home or somewhere in the city when I’m out with my friends. It have been with me for a long time it look very dirty too well not very dirty but old looking. It’s not much to look at. But it is the most useful thing to be with.

TEP

A Canon

Object, it means thing, right? Everyone has their own favorite objects but it just not only one. I also have many favorite objects; and like kids these days technology and stuffed animals are very popular, for example: mobile phone, laptop, teddy bear, or cars. But myself, I love to take photographs! I want to be a photographer! So, you can guess, right? I love my camera!

Of course, a camera is very expensive but it doesn't mean I'm showing off. For a person who loves photography, it means a whole world. I love its color, black, like a black diamond, whenever I look at it. It must be hung around my neck whenever I go on a trip. This way I will be able to take the beautiful moments of my life just in time or sometime even just the beautiful scenes that I think are so rare or beautiful.

I don't know how to describe to you more! I mean, if you don't love cameras as much as I do, then it would just mean nothing for me to over describe it. Even though, I just want to say, a photograph is the only thing to pause time and bring back a beautiful memory.

P.S: mistakes my paragraph and tell me!!
P.S.S: tell me what YOU think

My favorite drinks

My favorite drinks is Lemonade because the taste of that drinks makes me feel happy. When I am tired I always drink that drink that. Also, when I have a headache or I can not do something that I want. Lemonade taste are sour , a little sweet. The color of it is pink that why i call it pink lemonade. The name of the brand is Snapple. Sometimes if i do not have time to go to supermarket to buy it I can make it by myself . The ingredients are a can of soda , lemon or lime, sugar. Let me show you how to make . First, you need to have a pot or a jar. Second, you put some soda into the pot. Third you put some sugar and lime or lemon. Finally, add some ice if you want stir well and Enjoy! If you do not want to put some ice you can put it into the fridge.

Sreylen

My Board

The thing that I own that can't be replaced would definitely be my Elements Dispersion Skateboard. I feel on top of the world, every time I take it out for a spin. My parents always tell to stop skateboarding, because I always come back with a bandage on my knee or elbow, but I never listen. I mean, sure there's a lot of injury involved with skateboarding, but if you skate right you won't get a single scratch. It was a gift that a friend of mine in Australia gave to me last Christmas. Even though in Cambodia, we don't celebrate Christmas he still mailed it to me as a gift. The Dispersion Board is one of the many Boards made by Element. The board itself is space black with wheels the color of brown wood. On the back of the board there's two fire red Element Logos in the middle which is surrounded by white and grey miniature words saying ''Fire.Water.Wind.Earth''. The board itself isn't worth much financially, but there's nothing else in the world that has as much value sentimentally to me. It was the first gift I had ever received by mail, and it was the only gift I have ever received on Christmas.

Siphan

My Important Gift

There are many things that I love.Books,Phone,Mp3 Player,Laptop,Sports are also important for me.But there are one things that I really love.Can you guess what it is?Laptop.It's my favorite & important thing.

Why is it important to me?Well,It is very important to me.Because I need to use it everyday.Laptop help me to finish my works in easy way by research.Every day I spent many time on my laptop.Sometimes I need to relax so I play games and there are many games in my laptop.When I was alone or unhappy,I always listening to musics or log in to my facebook by my laptop.
Also it a gift from my father.I received it on my birthday.It is a very important gift.Because everyday my father is very busy with his job.So everyday I can see him for a short time.But if I see my laptop,it just like I can see him.So it make me feel like we are close to each other.

I just want to say,it is very important to me.Everythings that I need are on my laptop.It help me to have a happy life.So I really love it.

Visal

A friend of mine

Everywhere I go I am always with him. He is of course not a person nor money or anything else. He is my protector and is the only one who can help me to see all details of everything in the world as clearly as I desire. Who is he? He is my glasses.
You must be wondering why my glasses is on the top of my list for my favorite object. First, it is because of his appearance. He is semi-framed with this dynamically stylish hands and  muti-colored lenses appears like the shine of the northern light.I saw him at the first sight and  me refused to look at any others. He is the first glasses I have ever worn. Every time I put him on, I can see how beautiful the world really is. With him, I can  feel the potentials of anything with ease and with him, I can also have my sights with peace.
My glasses means a lot to me. He fits perfectly into my definition for what a friend really is. He is always with me to make my life better, to help me work out problems and the most important thing is "he sees things exactly the same as I do".

P.2

My Favorite Sport

As you know all around the world there are different of hobby that people would like to do, but for me my hobby is doing taekwondo sport. Taekwondo came from Korea. It now popular around the world. The taekwondo is a martial art of self-protection and for good health. Taekwondo have two type of them there are ITF and WTF. The ITF stand for International Taekwondo Federation and WTF stand for World Taekwondo Federation. To have a good health u have to do more sport and eat something good for your health. Taekwon is not sport for fighting it show the people to respect each other not just look down to other people. In Taekwon we have two part is Sparring and Pattern. In Cambodia we have competition every year. It on July every year.

P.S Last Year i got 2 gold medal and 1 silver.

Vishnu

My best friend, Roo Roo

Well, this is a bit embarrassing but my favorite object is ermm... a stuffed kangaroo. I like it because it's kinda cute and it's got a baby in it's pouch. What's it look like? Well, I can say it's brown, of course because kangaroos are brown. It also has a cute tattered hat on its head. There's not much to say about it but it has kinda stubby arms, legs and a tail. I also like it because my parents bought it for me when I was younger in Australia. I can still remember that day when they asked me to pick the one with or without the hat and I chose the one with the hat. Come to think of it, I got it in like 2002 so it's about 9 years old that means it is 5 years older than my sister! What do I do with it? Well, don't laugh, but I hug it when I sleep and pretend to talk to it sometimes as if it was alive. I sometimes talk to it like a friend and share my emotions with it. I think of it not only just a stuffed animal, but a friend. Some people think it's girly to have a stuffed animal, but I disagree with them because I definitely know how they feel. Oh! I forgot to tell you that I call her Roo Roo because it is a kangaroo after all.

p.s this is true so don't laugh about it

Rotha

April Reading Results

YL15 Independent Reading:  # of pages read in April!
Student	Book Title	# Pages
Visal	Sally’s Phone	30
Sreylen	Heidi	20
Pitou	Adventure Cambodia, Malcom in the Middle, Pink Panther, The Beach	134
Rotha	Dracula	73
Ati	The Little Match Girl	14
Pimean	Lucky Number	16
Nissa	Hoot, Matty Doolin, Giulia Lazzari	146
Monineath	Alanna The First Adventure	17
Siphan	David Copperfield	50
Roath	The Woman in White, Les Miserables	160

Do you have a moment for pure genius?

Please read this story and comment. 
How many times do you think we walk past something beautiful without noticing it?  

http://blog.longnow.org/2011/05/17/do-you-have-a-moment-for-pure-genius/

Post of the Week

This blog is not meant to be a competition.  I just want everyone to do their best and share their thoughts, ideas, feelings, while practicing their writing skills in English! But, I was asked by students to choose a post of the week, so I thought I would try it.  Please comment to share your opinion.

This week's Post of the Week is  "Droughtland" by Pitou.   A creative twist on Floodland, and it really drew me in.  Already, in just a couple paragraphs, I felt connected to Lenka and wanted to know what happened to her and her baby.  I wanted to see how Phnom Penh dealt with this disaster.  I wanted to know what people would do without the Mekong, especially since the water is such an important part of people's lives in this country.   Pitou does a good job of setting a mood of desperation and tension, and uses some nice description (like how he describes the heat).

But now, like I told him, he has to write the rest of the story, so next year's YL15 class can read Droughtland.

(By the way, did you know they are thinking of building dams on the Mekong which will affect all of the countries in the region?)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/apr/18/mekong-hydropower-xayaburi-laos

Runner-up:  "Never Say Never, The Meaning."
A thoughtful exploration of a common phrase - what it means to Justin Bieber, and what it means to Enix.  Inspiring.


Here are some quotes I've chosen from other posts.  
Thanks everyone, I really enjoyed reading your ideas and stories! (Some people have not posted yet... )

There's no sign of lives anymore on the wet, lively land that we used to stand on. -Monineath

When Josh walked pass the arrival door at the airport the first thing he did was fist bump my uncle then he hugged him in a hood like way. After greeting my uncle, he shook my hand and then said ''Whad up??''. First of all I thought ''Is he a hippie?''. Then he said ''I'm only kidding, Joshua Kelton, how do you do?''. -Siphan

Gimchi Gimchi Gimchi, every single dish always had to do with Gimchi. -Ati

If people live in space, which things that provide them food?

What will they dress? What will the houses look like? How will they breath by? -Nissa

All I want to say is that I don't like to lose and...just be yourself and admit who you are  -Mickey

Are you ready for this adventure at Disneyland Park in Paris?! - Roath

I mean, the outside look is a car but inside it's like a meeting room in the middle of a beach.  -Mickey

However, how did we repay the earth for giving us rich natural resources? We destroy it. That's right! Every second in our lives are making us get nearer and nearer to our doom as we exploit our one and only home planet. -Rotha

Most parents think that their kids would do something really stupid. - Tep  (hmmm… like what?)

As we born as human,we all have our hopes. So even our hopes are too high to reach or whatever,please don't give up. Keep trying till our death, I believe we are reaching it one day although it is sooner or later than we expect.  -Enix

Droughtland

Under the boiling heat of the angry sun, Lenka was holding her 1 years old son tightly in her arms, walking tiredly under the shadow of derelict buildings in the ruined city of Phnom Penh. She was desperately looking for food, especially, water to survive. She was exhausted enough just to look after herself but, as a mother, she wouldn't give up taking responsibilities for her baby.
The weather was extremely hot and the air was really tense for everyone to breathe. There were no more trees or farmland alive around the city. The Mekong river bed which once had been full enough to let ships float now was completely dry, so if anyone wanted water, they would have to wait for rain. And once it rained, it stormed which caused some people to have a cold to death. This was the way everybody survive on this horrible Earth and so was Lenka's.
After the death of her husband in that terrible night, this poor mother and her son continued their pitiful lives like this from sunrise to sunset until one morning when her life changed forever.

P.S. THIS IS FICTIONAL.
P.2

Bloodland

On April 17th 1975, major roads in the capital city of Phnom Penh were flooded by huge crowds of people standing and yelling happily to honor the victory of Khmer Rouge soldiers over Lon Nol . Everyone there was imagining of peaceful and prosperous future of Cambodia. These innocent people meant no more war.
Neary and her family were also joining in the cheerful crowd,too. She was looking at those black jeeps which were carrying young but strong soldiers from the front line with her hand waving Cambodian flag.Her heart was full of relief. She thought that from then she wouldn't have to run and hide way from those horrible rains of bullet anymore.
But soon, excitement turned into chaos. Neary and the nation of Cambodia were about to face a terrible event they would never forget. A dynamic male voice came out from a loudspeaker announced that Phnom Penh would be in danger soon as the U.S. was planning to drop bombs here. All of Phnom Penh citizens were forced to abandon their homes and go far out to the country side for 3days. However, since that moment, Neary and the other fell into the sea of devastation, separation and starvation and spent almost 4 years surviving in this hell of "Bloodland".

P.S. This is fictional
P.2

A Family's Friend

It all happened when my uncle,Kevin, had one of his best friends come on vacation to Cambodia. My uncle's best friend was a orthopedist straight out of college, who wanted to chill at a mildly hot and humid country. He and my uncle got acquainted while they were attending Standford together, and they have been best friends since. I never actually got to know much about him, all I knew was that his name was Joshua Andrews Kelton, he was in his early 30s and he came from a very very wealthy family. When Josh walked pass the arrival door at the airport the first thing he did was fist bump my uncle. After greeting my uncle, he shook my hand and then said ''Whad up??''. I thought to myself ''Is he a hippie?''. Then he said ''I'm only kidding, Joshua Kelton, how do you do?''. I replied ''I'm Siphan and I'm great''. The next day my uncle took him sight-seeing around Phnom Penh. When I saw him again at the dinner that night I asked him ''What do you think of Phnom Penh?'' he replied ''I think the city's astounding''. I left it at that and left all the talking to my uncle. Over the next few days I would accompany my uncle in showing Josh the city. After a weeks time Josh almost remembered every main road in Phnom Penh. At first I was shocked even me, a Cambodian, can't remember them all and he, a foreigner, remembered almost everything. Then I found out from my uncle that Josh had photographic memory, which is awesome, and that he graduated with honors and dozens of job offers. The next morning while I went to school Josh and my uncle went on a helicopter trip to Siem Reap. They stayed in Siem Reap for 3 weeks and spent a week just seeing Angkor Wat over and over again! After a month of visiting Phnom Penh and generally Cambodia Josh left to open his clinic in Cleveland. One week later I received a package through UPS with a letter that said '' If you're ever in Cleveland give me a call. And uh thanks for showing me around Stephan, you da man. Josh'' and when I opened the package I saw that Josh had mailed my uncle an newly made X-Box 360! Awesome! Even though it was meant for my uncle, it's in my room among my most priced possessions, besides what my uncle doesn't know won't hurt him.


P.S. Please tell me or correct it directly if you see a mistake
P.S.S Sorry about the dullness of this writing I normally write things more interesting but recently I lost my will and inspiration to write. Again I apologize, and I would like to also say Thank you for reading my writing this far!

 Siphan

Lives in the very next decade

How will lives be when nature is in a severe condition? I mean imagine one day we had only little amount fresh water and the land was so dry - just like desert. There's no sign of lives anymore on the wet, lively land that we used to stand on. To survive, we have to invent new things just to adopt this new living standard.

Perhaps, we'll have to live in a glass globe - one country in one globe. People will be forced to live indoors. Outside the globe, methane increases, carbon dioxide decreases. The sky is light purple with a sudden flash of lightning. It looks so awful that lives could be hardly survive. To transport from one globe to the other, we'll have to use a very unique and special equipment which costs a lot of money. So it means that, even though the technology is high, our lives will just be harder because of the problem of ecological problems.

Water will be recycled over and over again because it's hard to find place for fresh and clean water.

The only solution to this problem, is to love and protect the environment from now on by not doing any harmful thing to it. Love and live with the environment, and it will love us back and give us a good ecology for our better living standards.

Monineath

Love from our parents

As you know no parents in the world would leave their kids behind. They have the love that only their kids would understand. Some kids actually hated their for some reason like strict rule like no games, no TV, no junk food,etc. But parents have reason to have these rules for their children own good but children just follow the rules instead they mocking their parents. Especially teenagers with there relationship with their parent other which really worries parent so much. Most parents thinks their kids should have a date when they are in university because they are much more mature then we were in high school because many high school students have done stupid things. Most parents think that their kids would do something really stupid and they're right but parents will always know what to do.

Tep