drunken interview with sewing girls

all the friends i made here, even Patrick, are all trying to find me a Cambodian wife... after their first questions of "where you from?" "How long you stay in Cambodia?" then they ask me "Do you like Cambodia?" and I would say "Are you kidding me? I love it here!" then they'd go "Do you want to marry a Cambodian lady?" hold on, slow down MetPear(friend), don't I have to know someone and fall in love with her first? if i find someone so fantastic that i fearlessly fall in love with her, i would marry her regardless of her nationality -Japanese, American, French, Cambodian, Sudanian or wahtever... I try to explain that to them but they just giggle.

With help of drunk crew Patrick and Sophat I manage to interview Savat and Bop, two sweet girls from sewing shop at the back of Chey's auto shop. It's definitely the first time anybody's ever pointing a video camera and microphone to them, they can't stand giggling, plus they see me as big-time TV producer or something (which I'm not) and Sophat here, translating, is obviously manipulating my questions.
Toshiuro: tell me about yourself
Savat: my name is Savat, I'm 24 and grew up in Poum Steung village and I'm single...
Patrick: what's your dream? do you want to get married or have children...
Toshiro: guys, stay with me. i'm trying to talk about education here...

Savat(24) and Bop(28) both grew up in Poum Steung village but it was before the poum Steung school was built with the funding by Cambodian School Project, the organization of Mr. Sarith Ou and Roger-san in Wisconsin, USA (www.khmerschool.com). So Savat went to this school with coconut leaves used as roof, and didn't finish the elementary school because she had to look after the younger in her family. Bop didn't go to school at all, for the same reason as many in this country --- to help family. now they both learn sewing from a person who helps orphans and the poor, make school uniform for the children. being asked how it makes her feel to see today's children having the uniforms she made, savat says "it makes me want to go to school but i feel odd, out of place being much older and not knowing how to read and write."
Toshiro: what was your happiest memory from childhood?
Savat: i don't remember. i was always busy taking care of my family.
Toshiro: what's your dream for the future?
Savat: i don't know. i want to be able to read and write, and i want my family to be safe and healthy.
Patrick: once you learn how to read and write and your family is taken care of, what will be your dream for yourself? Go out and have a good time with friends? travel other parts of the world? maybe have a boyfriend or get marry? (Patrick! no more beer for you!)
Savat: i don't know.
Many people here are struggling so hard for the very basic needs of the life that they are incapable of dreaming. Me and Patrick decided that should be one of the things for us to teach children in Poum Steung school. To dream own future.