Megan Bendiksen

Megan caught the travel bug at the age of ten when her family left New Hampshire's Seacoast to spend a semester in Budapest.

In high school and college Megan fell in love with ancient history and worked three summers on an archaeological excavation in Turkey. She then pursued a B.A. in Classical Languages at Carleton College, spending a semester at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome.

Megan earned her Masters Degree in Teaching Latin at UMass Amherst and has been teaching both French and Latin in Western Massachusetts for the past 12 years. It’s a perfect combination of the ancient and modern. Most recently she’s acquired Italian in order to take her Latin students to Rome. She enjoys seeing them take advantage of the skills and knowledge they've developed, working together to read and translate Latin inscriptions on monuments, or navigating the city confidently!