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large number of schools and colleges, along with a school for ballet, a school for piano
lessons, and a number of kindergartens. Walk through the lanes of this area in the late af-
ternoon, and you will be in a sea of school-children and college students of every age and
stage and grade. Conception School, St Francis Xavier Convent, Joan D'Arc School, and
on Samsen Road, the handsome pink building of St Gabriel's College, with the statue of
its founder almost certainly the only statue in Bangkok that wears a pair of genuine spec-
tacles. At the back of the nearby carpark is a stretch of ancient walling that was once the
garden of an old palace, long gone, and the nearby Suan Sunantha Teacher Training Col-
lege was originally another palace.
St Francis Xavier Church, in the centre of Ban Yuen, the Vietnamese village.
