KOBE SHOIN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY and COLLEGE JAPAN-CAMBODIA PROJECT

 

An opportunity for a young Cambodian woman to visit Japan

 

Would you like to receive an all-expenses-paid two-week trip to Kobe, Japan in December 2007, including homestay with Japanese students, sightseeing in Kobe and participation in the annual University Speech Contest and Christmas celebrations?

 

If you:

  • are a woman aged between 17 and 22
  • have never traveled outside Cambodia
  • can speak and write some English
  • are interested in spending two weeks in Kobe, Japan, as a guest of the faculty and students of Kobe Shoin Women's University and College, Department of English Language Communication
  • would be pleased to talk about Cambodia, in English, to students and staff of the University
  • would like to be considered for this opportunity

 

Please write approximately 1000 words on the following topic:

 

Is there a place for educated women in

Cambodian society today?

 

Show how your education brings both benefits and problems to you

in the professional world.

 

  • Essays must be typed, double-spaced on A4 paper
  • Pages should be secured with a paper clip but NOT stapled
  • Write your name on every page
  • The essay must be at least 800 words long and no more than 1,200.
  • The work must be original and should include personal examples and experience
  • If you use outside sources (books, newspapers, internet) you must give references
  • Only in exceptional circumstances will essays be accepted by e-mail

 

Please include the following information on your application:

  • Full name (with family name in CAPITALS), age, address and telephone number
  • E-mail address (if you have one)
  • Occupation
  • Interests
  • Languages spoken
  • Your ambition for the future
  • Reason for participating in this contest
  • Photograph

 

Send your essay to:

Professor Peter Mallett, Kobe Shoin Women's University and College,

1-2-1 Shinohara Obanoyama-Cho, Nada, Kobe 657-0015, Japan

 

And a message with your e-mail address (if you have one) to notify us of your participation in the contest to: peter@shoin.ac.jp

 

To arrive no later than 11 June 2007.

 

 

 

One winner will be chosen and the result announced at the beginning of July. For details of past contests and our project, please see our website: http://ksw.shoin.ac.jp/dept/englang/cambojia.htm