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LATIN? REALLY?

LATIN? REALLY?

When Chantal Wong( OS 2015) came from Hong Kong to Sevenoaks in Year 9, Latin was not on her wish list.
She was obliged to join our Year 9 beginners’ course though. And at its end, lo and behold, her selected GCSEs included Latin.
No one was more surprised than Chantal.
With a Latin GCSE in the bag, you’ d think she might have had enough. But she pursued it throughout the Lower and Upper Sixth.
And then, quid mirum, she read Classics at Cambridge.