Home Stay

In a couple weeks, I will be taking a trip with my class to the Dominican Republic. We will be staying in rustic homestays, and I am looking for tips and tricks on how to deal with my naturally curly hair. There will be hardly any opportunities to shower, and showering is the key to keeping curly hair untangled, because it’s almost impossible to use a brush. Are there other ways to help keep the curls fresh? Any help would be greatly appreciated! My hair is medium length, pretty thick and it frizzes a lot.

You should definitely buy some dry shampoo.

Try:
TRESemme Fresh Start Dry Shampoo : 5.95 CVS
Salon Grafix Spray Powder Shampoo for Brunette Shades: $7.99 CVS
Psssssst Instant Spray Shampoo Unscented Normal To Oily Hair: $6.49 CVS

Dry shampoo works by absorbing all the oil in your hair that makes it greasy, and it leaves it washed without having to use water

I use it when I go on camping trips and I know there won’t be showers for at least 5 days.

I have wavy unruly hair, so I definitely recommend any of those products

In a couple weeks, I will be taking a trip with my class to the Dominican Republic. We will be staying in rustic homestays, and I am looking for tips and tricks on how to deal with my naturally curly hair. There will be hardly any opportunities to shower, and showering is the key to keeping curly hair untangled, because it’s almost impossible to use a brush. Are there other ways to help keep the curls fresh? Any help would be greatly appreciated! My hair is medium length, pretty thick and it frizzes a lot.

You should definitely buy some dry shampoo.

Try:
TRESemme Fresh Start Dry Shampoo : 5.95 CVS
Salon Grafix Spray Powder Shampoo for Brunette Shades: $7.99 CVS
Psssssst Instant Spray Shampoo Unscented Normal To Oily Hair: $6.49 CVS

Dry shampoo works by absorbing all the oil in your hair that makes it greasy, and it leaves it washed without having to use water

I use it when I go on camping trips and I know there won’t be showers for at least 5 days.

I have wavy unruly hair, so I definitely recommend any of those products

I desperately want to do some overseas or abroad volunteering in the Summer of 2011 for about 1 – 2 weeks.. I’ve searched for hours and hours on the internet looking for placements but they either all seem to be :
a) Far, far, too expensive (I’m only a student with a part time job) and the places I’ve come across are asking for £900 – £1000 WITHOUT your flights included. I know it’s unlikely that I’ll find something free but surely there must be cheaper offers out there?
b) The minimum time you can go for is 2 months etc
c) You have to have previous experience of volunteering
Ideally I would like to work in community development projects that deal with social issues such as refugees, human rights, international aid, womens empowerment etc, whilst also staying in a homestay so that I can learn and observe the traditions and practices of the people I’m with ( I want to study social anthropology )
Any help or websites would be really greatly appreciated, as I’m started to become so disheartened. I’ve searched so many websites and emailed and emailed but still haven’t found something that I can do.

Please help!

The others all have good thoughts on this. The only thing I can add, as a former Peace Corps volunteer, is to do research on any country you end up going to for the basics: language, customs, greetings, etc. Unfortunately MOST of what you’ll find online is incredibly dated. I went to Albania and a large portion of the research, even what the PC sent us, was outdated. There is just too much to stay current in developing countries. When the time comes try to find an email or blog posting of someone in the country.

Youth and adults from the USA will be traveling to Japan for a month homestay. We’d like to bring gifts to our host families. I’d appreciate suggestions on gifts that would be enjoyed by the adults and teens in the Japanese host families.
What USA size t-shirt would be most likely to fit a Japanese woman, Japanese man, Japanese 14 year old?
Are there any items that would be considered rude?
Are there any foods that are usually disliked? One of my friends from Japan says that mint-flavored chocolate is not popular. True?
Thanks!

I think your local food is good anyway.

US size is bigger than Japanese size. Like S in US size is M in Japan.

>Are there any foods that are usually disliked?

Not much.

>One of my friends from Japan says that mint-flavored chocolate is not popular. True?

No.

My family is interested in hosting an international student from Korea at our house. How do I go about doing this homestay thing????? I did put ads up online and plan to put some ads up at my university campus but was wondering if there’s a better way to go about doing this.

My family wants to host a college age student who needs a place to stay but don’t know how to go about doing this since we’ve never done this before.

Btw, my university has no program with finding international students homestays.

Thanks

I answered this question for you 2 or 3 times previously.

My family is very interested in hosting an international student for homestay. However, we haven’t done this before so we don’t know how to go about doing this.

I’m a college student and I was thinking about putting up ads up at my university but don’t know if that is a good way to advertise.

It would also be nice if you could inform me on any good sites to find students who need homestay.

So…I’m curious on how to host international student for homestay in Las Vegas??? I don’t know how to go about doing this or where to find students who need homestay.

I’ve checked some websites but none of them seem helpful at all…

I wasn’t sure about what area to put this question under so I just decided to put it under Las Vegas since its the city where I would be doing homestay

I’m not sure what Homestay is, but Couchsurfing.com is a great way to travel around the world and find cheap, and sometimes free places to crash at someone else’s pad. People just do it to meet others.

I’m from Canada and i stayed in San Diego for 3 days on my way down from Mexico.

My family is interested in hosting an international student preferably a korean student at our house. How do I go about doing this homestay thing????? I did put ads up online and plan to put some ads up at my university campus but was wondering if there’s a better way to go about doing this.

My family wants to host a college age student who needs a place to stay but don’t know how to go about doing this since we’ve never done this before.

Thanks

First of all I think you’re so kind when doing this.
I think you should contact one of the nearest universities, I’m sure they will tell you how to do that, maybe there’s already one for you.
It’s convenient for the student, too because it’s not far away from school, so they don’t have to pay much for the transportation.

I wish I had met someone like you before

hello,

my husband and i will be travelling to london for 4 nights in june. we are looking for budget (bed n breakfast / london homestay) accommodation. Which part of london should we go to explore?

besides, i also heard a little about carboot sale.. which location has the most bargain?

Greater London is 609 square miles big however most tourists like to stay around the Westminster square mile. The London public transport network is fantastic and if you buy an Oyster card or a travelcard you can use any bus, tube (underground) or rail service within the zones purchased. Hotels in Central London can be very expensive. Your best bet is a guest house and there are lots around the Paddington, Bayswater and Pimlico areas (all on tube network). You do get what you pay for though so check reviews on tripadvisor before you book. A good website for B&B is www.smoothhound.co.uk although these will be mainly in the suburbs so check transport before you book.

Car boot sales, again are mainly in the suburbs and are usually once a month. However London has its own fantastic markets such as Portobello Road and Petticoat Lane where you can find almost anything.

Hi! My Japanese isn’t great and i’m trying to write a letter for my future host family to read when selecting me as their exchange student… Is what i’ve written appropriate for this? Does it make sense? Do you have any suggestions regarding what I should write in Japanese? Thanks so much for your help!!!

Here’s my letter so far;

ホストファミリーへ、

はじめまして！

僕の名前はマックスです。オーストラリアのシドニーに住んでいます。僕の家族は四人です。僕は日本が大好きです。日本の慣習や教養やたべものが大好きです。今、僕の日本語は下手ですが、ホームステイのそうなる前にたくさん日本語をべんきょうします。

僕の一番すき科目は英語とコンピューターと日本語です。

僕は日本へ行ったことがあります。東京と京都へ行きました。僕は日本人友だちがあります。

皆さんにお会いできることを楽しみにしています. そしてお宅に泊めていただけることを感謝しています. 僕のホームステイーにとても興奮しています。

マックスより
hmmm.. yahoo answers seems to have shortened it for some reason.. here’s the whole thing;

ホストファミリーへ、

はじめまして！

僕の名前はマックスです。オーストラリアのシドニーに住んでいます。
僕の家族は四人です。僕は日本が大好きです。
日本の慣習や教養やたべものが大好きです。
今、僕の日本語は下手ですが、
ホームステイのそうなる前にたくさん日本語をべんきょうします。

僕の一番すき科目は英語とコンピューターと日本語です。

僕は日本へ行ったことがあります。東京と京都へ行きました。
僕は日本人友だちがあります。

皆さんにお会いできることを楽しみにしています.
そしてお宅に泊めていただけることを感謝しています.
僕のホームステイーにとても興奮しています。

マックスより

It makes sense but some things…

日本の慣習や教養やたべものが大好きです。 You could also say 日本の慣習や教養やたべものに興味があります。

ホームステイのそうなる前にたくさん日本語をべんきょうします。 Sounds weird. Instead of ホームステイのそうなる前に you could say ホームステイする前に

僕の一番すき科目は英語とコンピューターと日本語です。 You need na after suki. Also it’s weird to say ichiban then give a bunch of things so I took it out: 僕のすきな科目は英語とコンピューターと日本語です。

僕は日本人友だちがあります。 Put no after nihonjin. + It should be imasu, not arimasu.

僕のホームステイーにとても興奮しています。 koufun is weird… I would just say 僕はホームステイをとても楽しみにしています。

A native speaker will probably have a better answer than me…

We are looking for a place with little tourism. We would also request that the place has a Spanish school who accepts teens and gives them freedom. Also, we want the place to have quite a bit to do, as in night life and nature adventures.

Costa Rica is definitely not the place if you’re trying to avoid tourism. It’s probably one of the highest, if not the highest, Latin American countries for tourism. As for night life, San Jose is probably your best bet, but it can be dangerous at night. As for nature adventures, pretty much anywhere outside San Jose seems to be a nature adventurer’s wonderland.