July, 2007Archive for

My First Year at DMC

Last night I had a strange dream. I was lying on the floor in my room quietly. Everything kind of turned into a dream and I was not there any more. I was watching my life from the outside but I was not an active player in it. Everything seemed very strange and unfamiliar. I could not believe that I was in university and that I was with all these people I did not even know. There they were, my classmates at university, my friends in the Thai class and of course I saw my Thai teacher, standing an...
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" I have a lesbian friend", which is an astonishing statement for any Cambodian to hear. Why can I not say this? And what is wrong with the word "Lesbian" or even "gay"? We know that a lesbian is a girl who is sexually interested in the same sex or another girl while a gay is a boy or man who has a sexual interest in a man. Now these two words are commonly used for those people and can cause curiosity as well as anxiety among people. As our own basic life right has stated, people cannot be detai...
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