Alumni News

"Follow your interests", "witnessing hardship in Lombok was humbling", "do more things, don't stay inside and game all day".

These were some of the wise words shared by our Alumni Lachlan Copley (Class of 2016) when Lachlan returned to speak with current students on Monday 21st March.

Lachlan spoke to the Year 8 ECO class about all the life-changing benefits he experienced from studying Indonesian until Year 12, particularly the two study tours he undertook to our sister school in Lombok.

Lachlan has taken his Indonesian studies to the next level since school, obtaining an honours in International Relations with a major in Indonesian. He was also recently appointed the Vice-President of the Australia-Indonesia Youth Association Victoria! AIYA is a Non-Government Youth-Led organisation which aims to better connect young Indonesians and Australians to work and study opportunities, and to each other.

Lachlan aspires to work for DFAT (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade). Lachlan highly encouraged our students to pursue further study even if they don't consider themselves very academic. Thank you so much for coming back to inspire our students, Lachlan, terima kasih banyak!

Aphra Millis, Alumni Program Coordinator