Steblins R. 1963 Ocean Trip Bangkok. Jan. 31 and good light. The walls were white. There were many movable tables with formica (?) tops. This is regarded as one of the best equipped schools in Bangkok. These children are all P.P. They have an enthusiastic teacher with the latest curriculum material, and are working in a well-equipped laboratory. I saw copies of the "yellow version", evidently including lab manual, text, teachers guide, etc. Miss Rogerson says the students are excited over their work, much more so than with the old approach, and she is confident they will do better in the tests than previous students. The class is using Dr. Klonis textbook. We then went to the Stri-Vidhya (pronounced stri-vit-ya) girls school, 8-12th grade. The enrollment is a little over 1000. Mrs. Somponi Phalakenkul was in charge. She has done work at Ohio State where she studied education and chemistry. A lab had been arranged for my benefit. The girls were working on floral parts, making sections and drawings. This room of less space but had a high ceiling, was airy and had plenty of table space. The work tables, however, were fixed. There were fewer microscopes. I was shown charts of fishes of Bangkok,