This last weekend we got a chance to go with our landlords, Sotheare and Onn, to their place of work. They both teach English and the Phnom Penh University. The part of their school is called Institute of Foreign Languages. The IFL hosted a Cultural Day where each department ie. French Department, English Department, Japanesse Dapartment etc. performed some dances from that culture. We had everything from traditional to hip hop. After the performance was over at 11 am we ate lunch with our landlords and joined them in learning some traditional Khmer dances. The University hired a band to stay until 6 pm. Our landlords, Gideon and I were completely worn out after 2 hours of dancing and only stayed until 2pm. This cultural day was to start off the celebration of Khmer New Year. Next week we are on holiday for a full week for the new year. We had a blast with our landlords learning to dance even though we were hot and sweaty the whole time. Please enjoy some pictures of our exciting day!
Traditional Cambodian Dance
These tents are what they use for weddings too. Don't you think they are so beautiful.;)
Cambodian Boxing
Gideon got tired of trying to do the traditional dance and he broke out his hip hop moves!
They dance a lot with their hands, and move their legs and feet a little bit. They also do line dances.
This was the students from the French Department.
Money Offering Dance- they were raising money for the soldiers who are fighting at the border between here and Thailand. The dispute is over who owns a certain temple.
This video is for Carol and my middle school girls at ROL. It is the Hannah Montana dance performed by Cambodian College Students. I just thought it was amusing!
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