Visit to Dalat School campus in Vietnam

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June 9th 2009

Published: June 12th 2009

The purpose of the trip to Dalat, Vietnam was to visit our old school campus to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the founding of the school in 1929. This was the boarding school for missionaries kids from the Southeast Asian area. Our guide had worked 8 months to obtain permission for us to visit the school. The school now teaches village, town, city, and provincial administrators. I was accompa... Read Full Entry

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Bob Carlsen

Home and Away

I started blogging on Travelblog in 2009, entering trips beginning in 2007. My intention has always been to document my years of travel since my birth...how else was I to save all the slides my Dad took of my childhood! Most bloggers write about their trips away from home. Mine, and eventually Linda's, homes have usually been where people travel to. So the idea eventually percolated to name our blog "Home and Away." The blog is not intended to be an autobiography, although I spent my entire life traveling, with Linda joining me after college, it may appear to be that way. As this... full info

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View of front of the girls dorm with main building beyond

We used to roller skate down the sidewalk and under the stairs into the basement

Bob and Johnny in front of the bedroom door of upper floor of main building where they roomed together in first grade

Group in headmasters office, upper floor front right side of main building where I also roomed

Linda and I stayed in this room when we visited Dalat in 1973

View from the headmasters office window towards main entrance

Johnny, Ruth, Barb, and Bob next to big pine tree...it's still there!

View across the road in front of the school towards the end of the gully

Departing Dalat School campus

Barb, Johnny, Ruth, and Bob on Jackson Hill

Now there is only this small plot of land that hasn't been built upon.

View towrds top of the Three Hills

Now it has pony rides and tourist souvenier shops

On top of the first of Three Hills with Buddhist Temple

View of Dalat's lake

The cover of the first yearbook featured four students next to this boathouse

View of the lake from the front steps of the Palace Hotel

The theater in downtown Dalat

17th August 2009

Kevin Carlson
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Great Visit!
I am SO excited to see your pictures! My father (Roger Carlson) attended approximately 1934 until the Japenese invasion (I think around 1941). We were in Dalat in late 1996, but were unable to locate the building.

7th October 2010

K.Diane Casebier
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Dalat- School
Wonderful pictures. Thanks for the memories. Southern Baptist Missionaries spend our retreats there. While the parents prayed and met the kids played. I love this spot! Thank you, Diane

7th May 2014

Doug Collins
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New images of old memories
I remember... I was there from 1960 to early 65. Never been back though I've often thought about it. Maybe someday.

4th February 2015

Peter Dutton
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Thanks, Bob, great pictures!

23rd May 2021

Vy
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Thank for your story.
Although I am Dalat but I don't know about Dalat International School until now. Thank for sharing

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