Unforgettable Khmer smile--foreign activities article

Kimsour on time GH meet us, once again riding on his tutu, and Angkor.

The Angkor Temple, we turned into the side of the road is the potholes rough dirt track, on both sides full of garbage. Humble wooden high foot room, people dress is not so much neater. Now we can see perhaps is the most Cambodians living. Car seven turns eight kidnappers had finally stopped. Kimsour led us into a dimly lit cabins, House crammed twenty or thirty-two children under the age of one, this is what he said school? Kimsour introduced us to the children, but also to himself and his school and child's introduction to each and every one of us. The ideal Kimsour I could have been guided (in Siem Reap Guide seems to be a very enviable work), but in order to obtain a tourist guide licence must be a high school graduate, or pay $ 2500. He had not been to high school, unable to pay us $ 2500, therefore ideal end, can only be tutu drivers, although this is a good work. His students are in the village of poor children, most of the situation is very poor, of orphaned, has a serious illness in the body of the parents, the children are little age will have to bear the burden of the family, the loneliness or a living selling souvenirs. Kimsour hope that through their own efforts as far as possible to help children achieve their ideal out his obligations English course offering 3 months.

Kimsour English very pretty, talk voice also endowed with charm, and he was never when the driver, he should become a teacher.

In the repeated request of Kimsour, this lesson is to us. And children are exchanged names, HH guide them to tell the future dream in what kind of work. Short after I want bash to be a teacher/tour guide/pilot ... Loud shrill voices out from the cabin, the Cambodian children eyes are very pure, referring to the ideal reveals desire, wish they everyone can dream come true. One child's vision is to be a singer, at our request, the future of super start to sing us a song first Cambodian. Cabin boy in more and more, even many adults also joined us. I use the DV recording this unforgettable lesson, but unfortunately, due to the lighting of the dark, the children of image blur, and cannot see them on by one simple little face. We also lost no time in taught them the last two sentences in English, in a "Hello" in the end this reluctantly class.

Kimsour gives us the feeling is a very nice person, and your conversation always shy smile.

The deepest impression is the mountain nesbakken, in a crowded train, in King City Municipality of tourists, every time we came out from the spot, he could always before we found him, smiled and waved to us. Want to know what each of the attractions of our tour time is not fixed, or long or short, he must be kept in the us. We went to the roadside service centers to find a free travel guide, but has been made out. The next day he called us to bring a book, when we went with a watermelon, get off at Angkor Temple, asked him to have a knife, he managed to catch up with us on the corridor, and gave it to me I do not know where to look to the kitchen. He always dressed very neatly, wearing shoes, no matter how hot, always in front of us on the shirt outside his work vest. Driving time he would still be happy blew the whistle.

Kimsour also is a real person, he gave us the lowest price is not, nor will we decrease stroke and objection, he would have to recommend some tourism projects, get some kickbacks.

I also suspect that the so-called English schools is an illusion, maybe he just want to earn more money. On his way to his family see so lonely and isolated, I doubt his motives, remind everyone that don't eat anything, even told him to stop and go back to the idea that this is not a normal thing again? But I believe my intuition, I believe he is brought to us by the Khmer people's self-confidence, optimistic, friendly and kind. As a rush of tourists, we can't change Kimsour and his student status, or even make their situation be improved, I just know we were moved by his behavior. He did not passively accepting destiny, still hard, even if these efforts are not for himself. He is doing if in its territory we do things seriously. Hope there are more people who know him, you may go to Angkor in Cambodia, if you need a tutu, to find him, we give him Dora a business, maybe he'll use your money to his student Tim a small and a pencil.

Kimsour email：Kimsuah_Pheang@yahoo.com

H.P: 012616702

Also by Golden Temple Villa contact him

We give the students prepare Kimsour some stationery, if you have to go to Angkor friends can help with, please contact us: grace@colacao.com.cn (things can be transmitted through the Golden Temple) If you know he's recent situation, please let us know.

To leave the Angkor, to feel a little sorry, resulting in several expectations:

1. secretly slid into the palace women, into the fence, with magnifying glass to see each Emboss lines, fingered each carving of a bump.

2. in the heat of noon, Angkor Wat, find a quiet corner near the moat wall edges, or in the main tower at the foot of the pyramid, the breasts may spread out, read the text in the book, from time to time, looked up high tower, unwittingly spent two hours, then the privilege can be tired of sleeping

With the dream of flying gods, back to week view up to experience on the Angkor Empire, to see the world no longer see that go back to glory.

3. before leaving the Angkor's last day of the evening, landing on the no-man's mountain nesbakken, sits below the Apsara fairy like, watching the sunset of Tonle, watching the last sunlight slowly from Angkor on top, all the darkness around like a curtain of the movie, the dark again surfaced is this row will not forget some of the things and people.

(Our driver Kimsour)

(The streets of publicity cards)

(Back to Derrick line of puppets)