Home Stay

Hi all,

I would be eternally grateful if anyone who has lived in a two- or three-bedroom apartment in the Boston area could enlighten me as to a typical gas heating/cooking expenses per month in the winter. I’m trying to decide whether it’s worth it for me to start a homestay for international students if it means I’ll have to pay the gas bill on top of the rent that previously included this expense.

There would only be two people in the apartment, even with the homestay. Both people would be out of the house from 7 or 8 AM until 5 or 6 PM…Any suggestions are super helpful

Thanks a lot!

2 bed room ran us $325.00 in gas last month.

Can someone please write in Japanese hiragana "osewaninarimashita".
My computer doesn’t have Japanese and I need to send my homestay family a thankyou letter.

Please help me

おせわになりました。

……That’s all? xD

This summer, I plan on taking Spanish courses in Guatemala. My friend and I are probably going to stay with a host family (would it be the same one?).

If any of you have had experience with homestay families, could you please answer a few of my questions:

1) I understand that I am living in another person’s house, but will this in any way restrict my freedom to be wherever and do whatever I want? (i.e. be out until 3 a.m. (or leave past a certain time)/smoke near the house/drink an alcoholic beverage in the house).

2) Will I feel independent? Will I essentially be living at home — in Guatemala?

Thank you in advance

it really depends, i’m guessing you’re definitely staying in Antigua, and 2 thumbs up experience, just be very careful, and never walk around @ night alone.

but yeah, it’s very relaxed.. where i stayed, it was a hotel type thing but it was still a homestay, and it was a room with a TV, 2 beds, bathroom and a kitchen (never used) and it was away from where the home mom lived, so we didn’t distract anyone wenever we came home late. and u get a key, so u should just be quiet wen coming in. and u can do w.e u want in the rooms, just keep it to a minimum.

and u’ll definitely feel independent.

don’t expect it to be some resort…it’s really not, sometimes hot water doesn’t come on…and in the morning it’s really a nuisance if the hot water doesn’t come on…also, there are bugs, especially in heavy rain, expect to see spiders, so get some raid…@ the place i stayed, i never saw a cockaroach but be aware that these buildings are VERY old.

DON’T be loud, and eat @ eating times only, they aren’t gonna prepare dinner just for u, but there are MANY restaurants like burger king, campero (KFC of guatemala), and many cafes around town..

but i promise it’s an experience you’ll never forget, and the night life is GREAT

I am a foreigner. I came here for learning English. I am in HOU now. I plan to transfer to ELS/CHI(Dominican University) on May 6. I want to try to find a homestay on my own because it will be more expensive if I asked school to help me arrange a homstay. Now, I have some trouble. Does anybody have websites about chicago homestay or any contact way? Please do me a big favor. I appreciate you very much.

Sweet Homestay Chicago website:

http://home.comcast.net/~wenckus2/about.html

A homestay provides you with an opportunity to live in a comfortable home with a friendly American family. You will be immersed in the English language and experience firsthand American culture and lifestyle. A homestay should be thought of as a home away from home.

A typical homestay visit through Sweet Homestay Chicago can range from one week to one month. Longer stays can be arranged if so desired.

Good Luck….

I was thinking about explorica summer academy. I need something without a homestay, and no more than 5,000. And also, if you could include anything to convince my parents to let me go.. well that’d be great! haha.

look this one up. It’s great. www.equestrianwinds.com

Someone told me that Maryland doesn’t allow non-citizen students (unaccompanied) to come as homestay students and study in pubic schools but Virginia does. Is this true?

I don’t know… but I do live in Virgina and that part is correct.

I am going to Tokyo, Tome, Kyoto, Nara, Hiroshima, and Yanagawa. So far, I want to go to Harajuku, Puroland (Sanrio themepark in Tokyo), and… thats about it! Can you tell me some things I should do? (foods to try, places to go, shopping districts, ect.) I don’t need to much to do for Nara and Hiroshima, because my school is doing a big planned tour for that, but I need to find some interesting things to ask my homestays to take me to in Tokyo, Yanagawa, and Tome. (Tome is a fairly small town, its in the country, and I doubt you’ll find interesting things to do there, hahaha.)

If you’ve been to Disney Land before, you should go to Tokyo Disney Land and Disney sea . there are many differences between here and Japanese Disney. I’m sure you’ll like Japanese one rather than America.
You also should go to Tokyo tower!

http://www.aeliusa.com Agape English Language Institute is an intensive English program in South Carolina, USA. We teach English to I-20 students, focusing on preparing them for their professional and educational goals. We provide homestays with American families. We are among the most affordable intensive English programs in the country.

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This video was created by Bruno, an Au Pair from Brazil, who wishes to participate in the CHI Au Pair USA program, from Cultural Homestay International.

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English homestay family – www.xilfee.eu Some families have horses and ponies. If you like riding, we have some wonderful English homestay families to visit.

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