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Name
Saw Th Moo Age
61 Sex
Male Religion
Christian Place
of birth
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Umpiun Mai KHCPS
ref No- 1.Could you tell me about your name and
family what is their job? My
name is Saw Th Moo.My parents are farmers. They lived in (Tee Hta Swain), they
are poor. They work hardly for a day to eat. They always prepare food for daily.
I have one brother and two sisters. 2.what are you doing for daily?
For daily I worked in the house such as
weave, 3. How old are you?
I am 61 year old.
4.What traditional did you have about
married and death? If they were Christian they married
like Christian. About death they have remembrance they also have pray for death
they believed that God call him on heaven. 5.What is difference between young life
and life now? When we are young we full of strength
we easy to go to work. Now we are older. We difficult to travel, no happier for
me. 6.How do you know each other when your
are friend ship? Example- when we teach in school,
teacher were my friend so we went together work together we know each other like
this. 7.what is your job now?
Last year I take rest. I am teaching 13
years in Kaw Htoo Lei. 8.Did you have money in your teaching?
Yes, we have help for one year. 9.where did you study education? We got in the school, such as study and
we got more. In 1997 I have training one month in Mae Lah. 10.Is any change in your job? Ah,
if we have to seen in our teaching some student were very clever, because they
try more and got high level. Some of student went to Chian Mai University. Some
stay still in camp. 11.Is any one like and encourage you in
your job? Some
one like me, but some one doesn’t like me. 12.Who did you live with after you got
married? Before
I have married my parents’ dead. So I stay myself with my wife. 13.Why did you get married? For me, we will have children and they
grew if they married we also get
grandson. My parents told me that a person who has not married doesn’t have
generation. 14.How many children do you have? I have no children because when I have
married I am 45 years old; my wife is 40 years old. 15.How did people celebrate Karen New
Year? When
I arrived in Kaw Htoo Lei I saw a few time at first they have arranged to
respect to Karen flag, also give flowers to martyrs. When I lived in (Htee Hta
Swin) Burmese government not allowed making great only we raise Karen flag.
After assemble we have feast. 16.Do you interesting about Karen
Culture and history, traditional?
I am very interesting about this, I tell to
some one but they don’t care of me. 17.Do you know how many kind of Karen
culture?
For me I think 3 kind of Karen culture. 1.Language 2.Clothes 3.Traditional About
Karen poetry, one sentence must have seven-words, two-sentence call on pair.
Four-sentence call one couple. The start of the word must be couple and the end
of the sound must be the same. 18.What is difference between education
and now? I studied in mission high school for
three years. After three years Burmese government take off English
language they order to teacher must teach Burmese language. When I study for
three years we study history in English, Science we study in English, math in
English, when I passed seven standard they change to their own language. Now we
have to consider in here teaching is better. |
