FLS Students Make Great Plans for the Future

We reached out to some of our students to see how has FLS changed or influenced their life. This time we would like you to meet Simon age 21. An amazing young man, that was born is the south of France but raised in Vietnam.

He studied with FLS Citrus in 2015. He says he associates only good memories with FLS especially our Activity Guides have warm place in his heart as they made the experience even more exciting.

His initial reason to come to FLS was to just improve English. As it turned out he got much more when I asked him, What was the most difficult part about being at FLS?

 Simon and Haruna

He said: “leaving my friends, I cried for two weeks. So sad”.

It looks like those months spent at our school resulted in some great friendships. The friendships became long lasting. Simon with excitement spoke about how he still keeps in touch with some of his FLS friends and with few he has even met in person.

When you get exposed to international cultures I guess hunger for more awakes. Since he left FLS he spend over two years in Tokyo Japan where he pursued his dream to learn Japanese and…

What is interesting is that the friend he went to visit was a person he met at FLS Citrus. They fell in love and decided to move in together. 

Simon says: “ … we have great plans for the future”.

Simon and his other half have decided to move to Switzerland where Simon has been accepted at a prestigious Geneva University and will major in International relations.  Another amazing thing about Simon is his desire to help others. Since he left FLS at the end of summer of 2015 he has also volunteered in China and Vietnam for over eight months.

One last thing that he mentioned when we spoke with him, was his host family had an enormous influence on him in a positive way. He admits thaw that he has never told them that. We hope that they will read this article so they can learn how they have changed a life.

When I reach out to our students it is just an amazing experience. It is an honor to be a part of life of students that then go on and with our small influence go on and change the world for the better.

~ Dominika Staniewicz, Assistant Director at FLS Citrus College