I will never learn, I trust people too much, I actually believe them when they say they are homesick or depressed....
Guess who I found on a flat search site....yes, you have guessed the answer Rudy the French Assistant who had to go home because his girlfriend's mother had been taken ill and he needed to be with her to support her over the difficult period.
We thought it was strange that he didn't ask to return when his problems had been resolved, but assumed that he was so distraught that he wasn't thinking properly.
He even used his name in the advertisement and said that he wanted to explore Wales. We were probably his last choice when no-one answered his advertisement, he probably thought 'oh, well, I had better try the one the school has recommended' when he arrived and was met by my puppet van he probably thought he was living out his worse nightmare......funny though.
I have no idea what to conclude, was he trying desperately to find other accommodation while he was here? He was always on his wireless internet in his bedroom. Is his girlfriends mother really ill? The fact that I had to push notes to him under his bedroom door might have been a give away that he wasn't too happy.
On the odd occasion when I caught him on the landing I would ask him if he was okay and I offered take him to some tourist destinations. In fact my daughter did manage to get him to Porthcawl fair but she said that he didn't seem very taken with Porthcawl.
He had a French Assistant friend two doors down.....who incidentally loves to visit us
Oh, well, back to the flat search site to see if I can find anyone to rent out Rudy's room....