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The life of a 12 year old Cambodian is hard to watch from afar. When I was 12, I was working hard in school to make my family proud and also working hard because I knew I needed to try my best if I wanted to support my family when I grew up. Here, this 12 year old is working in the worse possible conditions for money that can barely support his family, but every cent counted. This was new to me though, because my family used to live this life back in Cambodia. My great grandparents died from starvation to support my grandma and her brothers and sisters because they knew they will last longer than they would. The hard part for me was actually looking at the pictures. When this 12 year old is 40, he will still have the same tough life as he is having now because Cambodia doesn't have much funds for their people and nearly 60% of the population lives in poverty. He will either be providing for his own family, but 14 hours or more of labor will be the same for him because he knows if he stops for one bit, someone else will get the money that he needs.

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I feel as though the 12 year olds in America can not relate at all to the things the 12 year olds in Peru have to accomplish everyday. American children are lazy and probably haven't even thought of money making unless it's putting change in their piggy bank. For children in Peru, working is not only their only way to survive but also their families way. American 12 year olds usually depend on their parent to buy them what ever they want or to depend on their parent for their personal wants. The children in Peru are their family's provider. They don't even have the choice to think about personal wants because they can't afford anything that is not necessary. If they even live to be 40, I feel as though they would be bitter towards the world because they didn't really have a childhood. Most of them aren't able to obtain and education making it harder for them to succeed in the world so they would probably just think that working 24/7 is the only way to get a little closer to what you need to get by in life.

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Belgium schools seem just like our schools when I was younger. You wake up your parents take you to school. You see your friends and you play activities all day to make it fun, but also to learn. You get new and creative games in gym class. They play duck duck goose at recess. They also get served lunch by their school. So them and us are pretty mush the same. 

http://www.brunette.brucity.be/fond/eandre/3brigands/entree.html

Belgium schools seem just like our schools when I was younger. You wake up your parents take you to school. You see your friends and you play activities all day to make it fun, but also to learn. You get new and creative games in gym class. They play duck duck goose at recess. They also get served lunch by their school. So them and us are pretty mush the same. 

http://www.brunette.brucity.be/fond/eandre/3brigands/entree.html

Belgium schools seem just like our schools when I was younger. You wake up your parents take you to school. You see your friends and you play activities all day to make it fun, but also to learn. You get new and creative games in gym class. They play duck duck goose at recess. They also get served lunch by their school. So them and us are pretty mush the same. 

Day In the Life


There a few similarities of a life of a 12 year old Nicaraguan boy to my life as a 12 year old American girl. First comparison is that we both go to school, however his classroom was way smaller than mine and his class size was way bigger than mine. Although Nicaragua is the poorest country in Central America I wasn't surprised to know that 92% of kids go to primary school. I know this because I visited Nicaragua 3 years ago and during the day all the children were in school. While this was expected one thing that did surprise was how little people had healthcare. I figured the working class (which was my 12 year old boy's family)  would have health care; however after I factored in the size of his family and went over some data I came to the conclusion that his family wouldn't be able to afford health insurance.  I think that by age 40 the boy will be working, have 4-5 children who will attend primary school and possibly secondary but might not make it onto college. I think by the time the boy is 40 Nicaragua will have universal healthcare, however the boy and his family still might not have access to adequate healthcare.

After analyzing and comparing the opportunities of a girl living in morocco and a girl living in the United States, I’m satisfies to say that I live here. Almost 50% of the girls from morocco don’t enroll high school. What do they girls do? They go home and learn how to do the chores of the house. Why? Because they need to be ready, for when they get marry. This is a completely different life style, for them family is the only thing that matters. This is expected because a good amount of their population is Islamic (religion). I feel that by the time that little girl hits her 40s, she will become depended on her husband, because she won’t be able to do anything else.