Assignment for July 7, 2009: Reflection of the cooperation project

1. What did I find out during the cooperation project? What did I find most interesting, strange, funny, akward?

• I learned a lot about the country and cultre of Cambodia when doing the research. Also I learned a few things about the lifestyle of Cambodian students in my e-mail conversation (e.g. what transportation they use to go to university, where they live and how they finance their studies, family life,…..).
• I really liked all the videos because they gave me a viual impression about the country. I found out that it is common to eat insects. The video about the insect snack was very interesting but also a bit disgusting . It was great to learn that there are elephants and monkeys in Cambodia and the place shown in one of the videos looked alomost like jungle.
• All in all I found out that Cambodian students aren’t that different from German students. Of course there a a few cultural differences but we share the same interests and as university students have a lot in common.

2. What was easy, what was difficult in the communication process?

• Working with moodle was quite easy for me although some of the Cambodian students seemed to have trouble accessing it.
• The e-mail communication between me and my Cambodian partners worked well, but it wasn’t possible to have a messanger or skype conversation because of the time difference.
• The communication via commentary function on the blogs wasn’t very successful. I commented some blogs but not many cloggers responded , so I stopped to post commentaries.

3. What would I still like to find out from the other students?

• Where do Cambodians typically go on their vactions?
• If the Cambodian students could choose any place in the world to travel to where would they go? 
•  Is being a teacher a job of high or low prestige in Cambodia?
• How does the daily life / a typical day of Cambodian students look like?
• What is the legal age for drinking alcohol in Cambodia?
• How old do you have to be to get a drivers license in Cambodia?