Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Winning

Last weekend was the judging for the international creative writing contest called “Write On!” Over 400 Cambodian students participated, and it was difficult to choose just one winner from each grade level. After pairs of volunteers narrowed down the selection to just the top three from each grade level, the finalists were read aloud and voted on to determine the national winner. For the second year in a row, my school’s students won both the grade 11 and grade 12 titles. Their essays which I’ve included below will now go on to the international committee for final judging against the national champions from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ethiopia, Georgia, Lesotho, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, the Philippines, and Ukraine.
 
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Name: Prom Daro
School: Sokha Phally High School
Village: Kandoldom
Male/Female: Male
Peace Corps Volunteer’s Name: Leslie Miles
Student’s Age: 20
Grade: 11
Prompt: “What does a blind person see?”

Ther are a forest that have a lot of ghosts that make people scard of the forest. No one person can walk across that forest. If have people walk across that forest they will die because of the ghost make thme scard and scard until they die.

There are one person is a rich man (who are choising the man to marry with his daughter). The rich man say who are brave to walk across the forest of the ghost can get my daughter. There are no men can across the forest, also have some men were death in the forest. One day have one man is come out of the forest so he become a famouse person and many people thing that he is a strong man, a brave man no one like him so a rich man invite him to his house and marry him with his daughter.

After that the rich person interview him in front of many people. The rich man ask: How did you across the forest and then the man answer I don’t know anything because I can’t see. The rich person ask why? The man answer I am a blind man. So a blind person can’t see anything but he can see by dream only.

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Name: Yann Konthea
School: Sokha Phally High School
Village: Toulkok
Male/Female: Female
Peace Corps Volunteer’s Name: Leslie Miles
Student’s Age: 18
Grade: 12
Prompt: “If death were a person, what would he/she be like?”

One day, if death become a person who have smooth and long hair and were very beautiful. One more thing, he has a lot of money, has modern cars and big house. He would meet a lot of sexy girls or boys and make them fail in love. After that they would be killed by the death person to make them to be broken heart. The death would make himself to be a hunting man to use his thing that he has to make people to be crazy or dead and he would control the world and damage the world.

Moreover, when the world were destroyed already, he would make the world again to become a place for produce the death person to destroy others plannet. According to a head master of the death person factory said that “he has a plan in 2016. He would make the death person amount 50,000,000. And he plan to destroy 5 plannets in 2020 and then when he damage those plannets already he going to develop all the plannets to become a heaven or paradais for ghosts, monsters to visit after they tired with earth. On the other hand, he would make the factories in there also such as: The blond factory, The ghost car factory, The ghost teeth factory especially The spirit factory or The labor for put all humen spirit after they take from the people they would take to put here. Depend on an expert for the spirit. He said that the spirit is very special things because it easy to find but difficult to protect. So we need a very bad and big to put it until on time to put in the death person. Because the death person can live only 2 hours after they was born from the bamboo. So we need human spirit to insert their life. After we put spirit to the death person they continue their life in 200 years ago.” reported by Monster daily. I am a death person that want to take the spirit from you.

In sum up, the death person would like to tell you some advise that don’t be try to study or hard working because in 2016 I will destroy your world. So please die right now if you do not want to meet me in 2016.
 
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The students won a large Khmer/English dictionary, a grammar book, a notebook, two pens, and a correction pen. In addition, they earned prizes for their school's new library including a Cambodian map, a world map, and an awesome picture dictionary.


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