Cambodian girls are taught to do housework

Cambodian girls are taught to do housework like cooking, cleaning, taking care younger siblings and helping parents at the rice field. So she is called, "A good daughter of the family." In the previous years, Cambodian girls were thought to not necessary to go to school because at the end she will become a wife and a mother, so it's really important for her to just learn how to cook, taking care the house, and know how to manage money that her husband earns.
Things have gradually changed regarding education for girls, media and NGOs have worked in making a change within Cambodia's communities; many of parents and girls themselves understand the value of education. Girls must be independent and having a good job to support herself; it's not only husband's duty to earn income to support the family, but also girls (wife).
Domestic violence would caused by a husband who is a head of the family, and he works hard to support the entire family. Therefore, a wife who is a housewife seems to put in the lower level because she earns nothing and she does thousand jobs at home without pay. Sometimes a husband blamed his wife for no reason once he returns home with the bad mood/stressful from work. He would say he works so hard every day, and she doesn't do anything, just stay at home, it's too easy...etc.

His special transportation!

Once I was traveling in the village of Ksach Kandal district of Kandal province, Cambodia, I saw this boy was sitting on his buffalo, and I asked him if I can take a photo of him; then see his face now! He was so ready for the shot!
Usually in the Cambodian context, especially boys live in the province, they are supposed to help their family by tending animals like cows and buffalo, and sometimes work in the rice field. These are boys' and girls' job after school hours. 

They are helpless children in Kandal province, Cambodia. They asked tourists to give them food; sometimes they were offered, and sometimes they were ignored.

North America's biggest tended crop is grass :)

Maple leaf shape on the floor while I was walking to a grocery store. I didn't step on it, I didn't know why, I just couldn't.

My First Time to Touch a Maple Leaf in CA.

In 2012, I arrived Canada and it was my first time to touch maple leaf. I used to see through the Internet, but finally I'm here in the maple leaf kingdom. My most favourite thing being here is to see different colour of maple leaf especially during Fall. The colourful of maple leaf helps release my homesickness feeling. 

Buddhist monks

This picture was taken when I conducted field visit in Kampong Speu province. 

The Buddhist temple (pagoda or wat), which is located in Kandal province, Cambodia.

A maple leaf and Cambodian's traditional cakes.

I captured this in Toronto, Canada. It was a round 3pm, a guy was eating his lunch alone nearby his bicycle in somewhere in downtown of Toronto city. It's probably life is too busy for him, that's he had late lunch. 

Bananas for sale!

Bananas!! Phnom Penh city, Cambodia.

តេជោយ៉ត និង តេជោដំឌិន

Rice bowl at a pagoda in Phnom Penh city, Cambodia.

Bananas!!

Bananas!!