Pon Pin is a 13-year-old fourth grade student.He was ranked 19th among the 45 students in his class.His father has passed away and his mother farms and works for
the Women’s Association.
“I
like the new building because it makes it easy for me to study.In the old school building it was hard to study because
there were no tables or blackboards.”
On
school subjects:
“I like learning
mathematics because it makes learning other subjects easy.I dislike social science because it makes me bored
sometimes.”
On
his hobbies:
“I like to read
because I want to gain knowledge for the future.”
On
his past:
“I was born in
Thailand, and my family moved back here 13 years ago.”
[During the
fighting of the last two decades, many Cambodians fled to
refugee camps in Thailand.]
