By Chandara Tith.

“Is this really my last week in Germany?” I almost can’t believe that time is flying so quickly.

I was given a chance to work in Berlin. To see the different view and culture, I absorb good things to get myself improved. (Photo: Chandara Tith)

Working with CARE, I realized now, has helped me to develop my personal life experience while living in a foreign country. Also, I improved my academic performance in an international working place setting.

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By Chandara Tith.

Today I am going to Berlin.

Me in Berlin. I spent a whole day on my bike, visiting as many places as possible. (Photo: tourist)

It was an awaited opportunity for me since I knew that I will go there. I went to the train station an hour earlier just to understand how the train system works. Luckily, it was not that complex as I expected. When I sat on the train and it started to move, my heart was beating fast. I was on board in a high-speed train for the first time in life!

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By Chandara Tith.

“I am Powerful!”  What does it mean? Is it a political action? No, it is a new brand of CARE, a campaign that put the focus on women`s empowerment.

The CARE campaign "I am powerful" portrais women from different contries. Here a Cambodian woman shows that with her vegetable garden she can feed the family. (Photo:CARE Australia)

It really caught my attention. Since the beginning of my internship, I saw it many times, both on the CARE website and in many information leaflets.

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By Chandara Tith

I have never imagined how advanced the media in Germany is.

I was trying to experience in the WDR TV studio to see how I look if I appear on TV. (Photo: Sina Stach)

I was trained to be a professional journalist by German teachers. In my university in Phnom Penh I used media equipment made in Germany, but I have never imagined how enchanting the real technical system and the media studios in Germany are. (more…)

By Chandara Tith.

One day after work, I went down the street to the city of Bonn. Just off the central station, I saw a spot of orange color – a group of people wearing T-Shirts in the typical CARE color with the logo showing a circle of hands.

The team talks to the people in a very smooth and joyful way. When I saw them, I remembered the time I volunteered for fund-raising in Cambodia. (Photo: Chandara Tith)

They were standing in front of a booth full of pictures. They were talking to pedestrians and showed them a small box which resembled the CARE Package and a book with pictures. I wondered what they were doing, but I guessed they must be doing some kind of social activity.

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by Chandara Tith.

My friend Manika who came from Cambodia with me asked an interesting question: “Does the climate change people’s habits?” She noticed that people in Germany get up and go to sleep later than people in Cambodia do and that the sun in Germany sets later, too.

My friend, Michael said that in front of the University of Bonn, there are often many people sitting around, sun bathing, but now it looks so quiet. (Photo: Chandara Tith)

When I walked to the city with my friend Michael, he told me that the park in front of the University of Bonn was always full of people sun bathing during the summer. But now, less people go there. He wondered if it is too hot for people to do so.

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By Chandara Tith.

The United Nations-backed war crime tribunal for the Khmer Rouge Regime has pronounced its first verdict on July 26, 2010. The former leader of the Toul Sleng prison in Phnom Penh, Duch will be sent to prison for 19 years.

Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch in the court on 26 July 2010 (Photo: Courtesy of Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC) known as the Khmer Rouge tribunal deals with surviving senior leaders of the regime. People believe it helps to support reconciliation after the enormous sufferings during the Khmer Rouge regime.   (more…)

22 year-old Chandara Tith is a journalism student from the Royal University of Phnom Penh. He spends the summer of 2010 doing an internship in the CARE press office in Bonn. He previously worked for the United Nation Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat) as an intern and as a freelance reporter for the LIFT Magazine of the Phnom Penh Post Newspaper in Cambodia. In his blog, he writes about his experiences in Germany as well as his views on Cambodia and the world.

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Here we go... Dara's first walk around Bonn (photo: private)

It is not the end of the world: a 22 year-old Cambodian guy travel abroad for the first time to do an internship and live independently in a student dormitory. He temporarily sets up a new life in Bonn/ Germany. (more…)