Home Stay

any Local family offers homestay, let a room to an international student to stay and charge rental monthly as well. Learning and exchanging customs, traditions by doing so ?

There are exchange programs you can apply to join such as Lions Clubs International Youth Exchange Program (<http://www.lionsclubs.org>). If successful, you’ll be hosted for up to 6 weeks by a host family in Malaysia (such programs are also available in many countries) and you only need to pay for the return airfare from your home country. There are also cultural exchanges between sister cities (e.g. Georgetown and Adelaide, Ipoh and Fukuoka etc.). Finally, if you are visiting Malaysia on a visitor’s visa, then you can also have long-term stays at youth hostels and YMCA (which gives you freedom to move around a bit more than staying with one family). If you are really keen to stay with a family, email me your details and maybe I can arrange something!

I was homestaying with this family and moved out of there a year ago. When I left, I left my bike in their garage and today, I decided to go and pick it up. When I called, the mother tells me they didn’t know whose it was and she took it to the bike shop and paid lots of money to get it adjusted for her daughter. She kept telling me that it was my fault that I didn’t pick it up when I left and that she thought I was no longer in the country (I’m guessing cause I’m an international student). However, they never even tried to call me, not once, before they made this decision. And now she’s asking me to pay for what she paid at the bike shop to get it back. I know I haven’t claimed it for a year, but it really upsets me that she would ask me of that and to blaim the whole thing on me. What should I do?

My Friend If U Leave Something At Someones House For A Year Then It Is Abandoned,Most People Would Laugh At You,Get A New Bike………Keep Your Friends…They Did Nothing Wrong,Most People Would Have Given It Away Or Trashed It…

I am planning to go to Tokyo for a week or so sometime during winter.
I’d be 16 at the time of the trip, and I’d stay either in a hotel, or at a homestay host’s house.

Any tips on traveling on my own?

I’ve traveled out of the country a few times with family, so I can manage at an airport, but one thing I’m also wondering is, do they usually have English speaking staff at airports? Because my Japanese is not great.

Most Japanese who work in public area would deal with the English speakers all the time so that they would have some basic ideas. I recommend bringing a pen and paper with you because it might be easier for them to understand written English rather than audio English.

I may buy a home about 15 minutes from Dartmouth in NH. I want to start a homestay where Korean students (or any others) can stay while they study English at the langauge programs at Dartmouth. There is some demand for this but where can I find information about getting started?

Contact Dartmouth

Okay, in 2010, I want to do the Summer Homestay Language Program…I want some information on it. Has anyone done this? What is it like? What do you get to do? Is this a good company? How much did it cost(in all)? Is money worth more in China?

Hello, My family would like to provide a long-term homestay to a foreign friend if you are english native speaker, non-smoking, love kids and willing to spend >6hrs/week for english teaching to me. In return, a friendly homestay and family dinner with us are welcomed everyday.

More details:

We are Located in Ya Yun Cun (Olympic Area) near to 4rd ring road, 10min’s walk to Subway 5#. The condition of my house is very good, you will have a very private room in upstairs, it’s a sunny room with simple furnitures, air-condition & an independent washroom, and there also have a gazebo on the roof of the house. The actually rental price from real estate agency in that Olympic area should not less than 2500~3000rmb/per month. We negotiate for a good price of "your room"

Free Internet connection in the day-time;
Free cold/hot water, air-conditioning, electricity & gas, all expense inclued, no hidden bill.
Free dinner everyday (Chinese food);
Free Chinese study environment;

Please Contact Tina Jiang @ 13911572278
MSN: gleewoman@hotmail.com

There are more people would like to offer homestay program on: www.foreignercn.com

Looking for a program that lasts from 3-8 weeks DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR, regardless of price, language, or location.

Since you already know English, it would be best for you to go with Spanish now.

Spain is a wonderful choice and the program www.beautifulspain.com, one of the best if not the best of the programs offered abroad world wide. Location is a safe and most amazingly beautiful beach resort in Northern Spain.
Host families are extremely well screened and very loving. This program gets returnees year after year, so great it is.

Cost is really reasonable considering everything included (as long as you sign up with this program through their web site as there are organizations that sell the same program for much more so high quality it is).

Some of the activities and excursions it offers besides Spanish, cooking and dancing classes are: Guggenheim Museum, paella dinner, bullfight, fireworks on the beach, city tour, medieval towns, fishing villages, many beach days, Aquarium, tall ship vessel excursion, Roman village hiking trip, canoening down the river, shopping, and much more.

It offers you the possibility of enrolling with a friend with whom to share same host family home, or for you to stay alone at host family. Many host families count on children of similar age to participating students.

I’m applying for an exchange program. SMG (http://www.student-management.com/flash/high-school.htm)

My dad heard from some where that most hosts don’t allow students to use laptops or cell phones unless they prove that they get good grades. Cell phone is fine. I don’t need it. But laptops? Isn’t that supposed to be for writing essays and projects at school?

So can you bring your own laptops to a homestay?

i’m very sure laptops are allowed. i could understand why some hosts are apprehensive about the use of computers. they just want to make sure their students are not lured into any nasty websites or fall prey to lurking stalkers. i suggest you work a compromise with your host. let them put on the necessary blocks (parental control) in your laptops and on your part, assure them that emailing and instant messaging will be done only with friends you actually know and known to your parents.

trust is a two-way street.

good luck.

i’m planning to be in tokyo for 3 months but still can’t find a place to stay. my budget for accommodation is US$400 per month. can anyone tell me the cheapest way to stay around tokyo? homestay, guest house, etc. etc. anything is acceptable

Adam is wrong, despite his confident assurance and massive accumulation of points. It’s entirely possible to rent a room for 400$ (~almost 50,000 yen) per month in Tokyo. It’s just not going to be a big room.

Here is a place in Asakusa with rooms as low as 37,000 a month:
http://www.sakura-house.com/english/premise/asakusa2.php

here are numerous guest houses, many within your price range in the Metropolis classifieds
http://metropolis.co.jp/classifieds/biz.asp?action=home&pid=80

Some other good resources are:
http://www.thewindsite.com
http://www.gaijinpot.com

Granted, these are not going to be the cleanest, quietest, or most centrally located rooms, but they are within your price range.

We are planning for a 3 day visit to Alleppey in 3rd week of this month(March). Want to experience the house boat for a night and the places around Alleppey and Cochin.
Any suggestions on house boat renting and good hotel are appreciated. Heard of the concept of homestays? How will it be for a 3 day visitor? Any suggestions are welcome.

Hi
Nice that you have choosen the righ time to travel to Alleppey-Kerala.
There are many nice hotels and homestays. We will be happy to suggest you and organise the trip for you.
Please send us more details as req below :
1. How many people are travelling
2. Number of Adults/children (age of children)
3. Approx budget
4. Nationality of clients travelling.
5. Your mode of arr/dep to Alleppey (or) Cochin

Write to us with details on above at southindia@windhorsetours.com

Thanks
Manju

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