Overview
- Lucas Zeier, 16, left his family in Curahuasi, Peru to attend a long-established Christian boarding school in Bath, England.
- Coverage based on VOX’s Goodbye Deutschland reports the annual cost at roughly €51,000, which the parents say they did not anticipate.
- Father Benjamin Zeier works unpaid at a mission hospital and says the family, supported by donations, is relying on faith to meet upcoming bills.
- Three months into term, Lucas describes a difficult adjustment marked by culture shock, getting lost on campus, and evening bouts of homesickness.
- One outlet identifies the school as Monkton Senior School; Lucas, who aims to become a neurosurgeon, says he intends to persevere as settling in slowly improves.