Downtown Bangkok Canal Scene
My Old School
While visiting Bangkok Thailand in October I took a trip down memory lane to My Old School — The International School of Bangkok. When I went to this school for my high school years — 1965 to 1968, it was located on Soi Ruam Chai, number 15 Sukhumvit. Sukhumvit is the name of a major thoroughfare that originates in central Bangkok and then run east and south over 60 kilometers. The sois, or lanes that run perpendicular from Sukhumvit to the left and right have names but they are also numbered, with odd numbers on the outbound side (motorists drive on the left in Thailand) and even numbers on the inbound side.
Long ago the school moved out of town, to a new campus in Nonthaburi, Thailand, about 30 kilometers to the north. I wanted to see the old ISB campus which was taken over by the New International School of Thailand (NIST), now celebrating its 25th anniversary.
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