Home you go, it's time to work

I bumped into a student the other day who we know through the language school. He's from the far east. I'd not seen him for a long time so we chatted and I was surprised to find that he's leaving Bordeaux this week.

He and his parents did a deal. He had a year to get his French going and to apply to a business school in Bordeaux. If he got in he could stay and study. If he didn't get in it's back home to work.

He didn't get in.

So he's off home. His parents have set him up with a house ("Wow!", I said) and he has a job lined up in international business using his languages. He's a little fed up because he has no friends in the city where he'll be working but that'll soon be fixed, especially if he links in properly with a local church.

The work culture is different. I asked what hours he would work and it will be 8h30 to 5h30, six days a week. A week off for new year. But that's what everyone does there. It's the way it is.

He's a reminder of the students we get to know who then go home or move on, to pray for them that God will continue his work in them.

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