Hong Sopheak # 28

The Cambodia Rural School Project The Yutaka Araki School (August, 2001) Hong Sopheak is a 10-year-old fourth grade student at The Yutaka Araki School.  She was ranked first among her 32 classmates at the end of the last school year.  Her house is 700 m away from the school. In Their Own Words. . .  […]

The Cambodia Rural School Project

The Yutaka Araki School



(August, 2001)

Hong Sopheak is a 10-year-old fourth grade student at The Yutaka Araki School.  She was ranked first among her 32 classmates at the end of the last school year.  Her house is 700 m away from the school.

In Their Own Words. . . 

On her family: “My father is a policeman and my mother is a housewife.”

 

On school subjects: “I am good at mathematics and like it.  For me, math is easy.  Khmer is my second favorite subject.  I am weak in applied sciences because it is difficult.  I have been studying English for a month now, too.  I like it and I want to be able to talk to people all over the world.”

 

On traveling: “I have been to Phnom Penh several times, but I have never been to Sihanoukville or Siem Reap.  If I have enough money, I would like to go to Thailand because it is our neighbor.”

 

On her future: “I want to study until high school and then I will apply for a scholarship to study medicine and become a doctor.  I want to be a doctor because then I would cure people who are ill without charging them.”

 

Message for Mr. Araki:  “I would like to wish Grandfather Yukata Araki a quick recovery and longevity so that he can come to Cambodia to inaugurate his school.”