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Hello to Students of Flensburg University

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Hello Readers,
Above is the funny picture of my best friend. I am sitting on the left and she on the right. The captions are quite for a good laughter if you have a Cambodian sense of humor.
It’s been almost three years I have been maintaining this blog. I have felt somehow very closely connected to this blog. It’s been my sister or brother, whatever cool name I can give to it. :)

For new readers from University of Flensburg, Germany, you may not know about me quite well yet. My name is Kounila (first name) Keo (family name). I turned 21 years old this March. Well, I am feeling just like 20 years old. :) What else could be better? I am nowadays a third year student of Media and Communication at the Royal University of Phnom Penh. At home, I have three sisters and one brother. I have a lot of friends at my university. Most of my friends are funny, hard-working but sometimes quite annoying. :) Well, this happens. Media in Cambodia are still a big concern but these students of media are perseverant to get this big ball rolling, I feel.

What have we been taking during this third year? We have taken “radio classes” and “short-documentary classes” besides research, advertising, applied communication research and news writing classes. Lately, we were quite miserable enough after one of our best teachers, Eva Rhode from Germany, left Cambodia for her new-again life in Germany. What a heart-broken moment! We are missing her very much. Generally, we like German people because they are hard-working though sometimes a bit too strict for us. But as a German, Eva has instilled a lot of knowledge into us students. Of course, we do appreciate every moment she taught us here.

I think enough is described about me and the courses I have been taking this year. If you are interested, keep coming back for more. Don’t forget to let me know what you think. They say, “Sharing is caring.” And I believe so. Therefore, share what you have in your mind.

The first day to hit the ice!

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Finally, I have succeeded in making a blog for myself as I had always wanted. I had tried as many times as I could in order to make one. As I am a freshman of Media and Communication, I must have a very good command of using English effectively and efficiently. This does not mean that I must speak English like a native speaker. Making this blog enables me to practice my English as much as possible.

It is not always easy to be a student and a teacher at the same time. I study at the university from Monday to Saturday, starting from 7: 30 in the morning to 5: 00 in the evening. Also, I teach three hours every day, from 1 pm to 2 pm, from 5: 30 pm to 6: 30 pm and from 7: 30 pm to 8: 30 pm. It is almost hard to balance a lot of things at the same time but I want to feel independency when I am now exactly 19 years old. In other countries like the USA, a lot of youngsters start to work at an earlier age like 14 or 15, because they expect to be independent in a few years. They can earn their own money to pay for school fees and spend it in the way they think is right. It is really admirable and in order to make Cambodia develop better and better, teenagers should really understand it. That I say this does not mean that I am perfect in that. But working right now is very important and we want to make our society the one that young people support old people -not the old support the young as in this present society.