About one hundred students, faculty and staff attended the Cambodian Water Festival held at the Student Center on Muak Lek campus, Sunday, October 25, 2009. The celebration began in the after­noon with boat racing in the campus pond, continued with tasting scrump­tious Cambodian food (prepared by our students) and participating in traditional dance at night. In spite of the huge rain that came in the after­noon which disrupted some of the activities, the Cambodian club did not let the rain dampen their spirited celebration of the occasion.
The Water Festival is a big event in Cambodia, where people flock to Tonle Sap river in Phnom Penh to celebrate the event. Chanthy Soeun, vice president of the Cambodian club, shares that part of the reason for holding this event is to help remedy the homesickness of their fellow members. “We hope we were able to accomplish that by hosting our water festival on campus.”