“I think one time they came to do a cooking class at our school because we taught cooking and they didn't,” Chapman said. “It was a bit ridiculous. No one really learned anything. It was quite funny seeing each other. It was quite a different environment.”
It was an environment in which Chapman and Adams found parallels in each other. At Samuel Marsden, Chapman was eight hours and 400 miles away from her home in Auckland. At Scots, Adams was 5½ hours and nearly 300 miles from where he grew up in Rotorua. Both were on a combination of sporting and academic scholarships.