Beautiful, inspirational music in both Khmer and English by the super talented Cambodian-American Phanith Rama Sovann
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Beginning this 31 August 2012
I made a few new friends in Siem Reap today, The Leviathans, or just call them, The Levi Bros, possibly a new act at the "You've Got Talent!" show. Here, singing acapella, "We are full of crocs."-- Theary, on brief trip to Siem Reap for CIVICUS Cambodia's Speak Truth To Power (or in Khmer, Courage Without Borders), 19 July 2012.
Late lunch with Abram Huyser Honig, director of Association for a More Just Society (with his beautiful Honduran wife Cynthia and adorable daughter), Elise and Jill. Jeremy (lawyer-professor from Michigan) and I are ones of the first to arrive for the JUSTICE: Theory Meets Practice seminar here in Honduras. Lunch is at the historic Santa Lucia, a popular tourist destination (especially for local population) with stunning, majestic mountainous vistas. It turned out that I knew Abram's grandparents since Dec. 1980 as they were senior members of Millbrook Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, MI which through my uncle Eng sponsored us to the United States from the squalid Thai refugee camps in 1980. Small world!
After lunch, we strolled up a hill to this cafe with stunning vistas in Santa Lucia, a historic town popular with tourists, mainly the local population, about a 20-min drive from Tegucigalpa (the capital of Honduras) this Sunday afternoon, 17 June 2012.
Santa Lucia this Sunday afternoon with Abram Huyser Honig, his wife Cynthia and daughter (Honduras, 17 June 2012)
Carlos Hernandez and Prof. Kurt Ver Beek, co-founders of Association for a More Just Society, speaking about the newly-established Alliance for Peace and Justice to address the high-rate of violence in society (ASJ Office, 19 June 2012)
Member of Commission for Security Reform, Matias Funez, speaking about the high-rate of violence perpetrated by the police at the Association for a More Just Society office (Tegucigalpa, 19 June 2012)
Great kicking, Joshua! (Swimming lesson in Irvine, CA, June 2012)
Big sister Emma and Joshua at their swim lesson in Irivine, CA
Graduation certificates, to be sea dragons
Robin and Marilee Pierce - their father Bob Pierce founded World Vision and Samaritan's Purse (Oceanside, CA, 14 June 2012)
Bob and Marilee Pierce Dunker at their beautiful home near San Diego (CA, 14 June 2012), here showing off their 37th wedding anniversary gift
Theary visiting with a friend Maria from Georgetown days (21 years ago!) with her children, adopted from China (their home in Southern California, 17 June 2012). Maria became a Christian the summer before coming to her Masters program for Linguistics at Georgetown University.
Maria, her husband Shannon (a senior Air Force officer) with their children. They are in the process of adopting their 4th child from China, a daughter (as there are less boys up for adoption) with special needs. To adopt a child without special needs means a wait of 8 years!
Theary with family friends since days in the Thai refugee camps of 1979 - Mieng Touch and Pou Long (who used to be chief of Rasmei Kampuchea), here at my aunt's house in Southern California, 17 June 2012.
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Panel
"The Fight for Knowledge:
Opportunities and Risks of Educational Work
in Conflict and Crisis Zones"
Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum, Germany, 23-28 June 2012
VIP dinner at Hotel Konigshof Bonn (Sunday, 24 June 2012)
Plenary Session 4 "The Fight for Knowledge". Theary starts speaking at approx. 15 min.
Part 2 of the Plenary Session 4 "The Fight for Knowledge". Theary starts speaking at approx. 4 min.
Plenary 4 -- "Fight for Knowledge: Opportunities and Risks for Educational Work in Conflict and Crisis Zones" (Bonn, 27 June 2012) -- Theary Seng (2nd L), moderated by DW anchor/journalist Amrita Cheema-Behrendt.
German Federal Minister Guido Westerwelle (World Conference Center, Bonn, 26 June 2012)
