MCMC student four years in succession being awarded Macao’s sole Légion d’Honneur HK Club Scholarship
 
Building upon MCMC’s quartet of 4 Légion d’Honneur scholars in succession - in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 - the first of their kind in Macao, Resident MCMC Tutor, and PhD postgrad, Jacqueline Wang Kunjie has been awarded the 2019 Scholarship. She will spend summer 2019 in Paris. enhancing her French language skills and knowledge of French culture and lifestyle. Jacqueline thanked the College and in particular Dr Patricia Thompson and Prof Kit Thompson for all their encouragement and moral support.
Jacqueline was selected by the Consulate General of France in Hong Kong and Macau and the Club of Légion d’Honneur Hong Kong Chapter to receive a Summer French Language Course Scholarship. The Consulate commended Jacqueline for being its first 2019’s awardee of the Légion d’Honneur Scholarships’ programme, and that her interview confirmed her good language skills, as well as her true motivation to tackle an issue very dear to the French government: that is, the struggle against climate change and preservation of the environment.
This prestigious scholarship is established for full-time students in universities in Hong Kong and Macau to pursue an intensive French language course in France during the Summer.
Jacqueline and MCMC celebrated this wonderful news by tasting the chocolate sculpture of Napoleon, which had been kindly sent as a Spring Festival gift to MCMC by the French Consul General, Alexandre Georgini, who had commissioned its making by the best chocolatier in Paris, to commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the birth of Napoleon. |
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