We highly recommend that students take advantage of homestays in order to practice what they learn in class with their family at home. It is also the best way to learn about the local culture. For this reason, the vast majority of our students stay with one of our excellent host families.
Accommodation includes breakfast and dinner during the week and also lunch on the weekend. After receiving your housing form with your application, we will fax or e-mail you the details regarding your host family at least two weeks before you leave home. We assign only one student per family so you will have no option but to practice your Spanish or Portuguese
Host family profile:
All families are carefully screened and must meet the School’s stringent requriments before being accepted as a host family.
All of our host families are middle-class and live in homes and areas that are attractive.
Many of our families have been in our study abroad program for many years and have consistently received excellent student evaluations.
Many are single parent families.
The ages of children in the families range from a few years old to adults.
Some homestays are without children.
Distances from the schools vary from a few minutes walk to a 30 minute bus ride, due to the size of the cities.
Students have their own rooms and sometimes a private bathroom also.
Students are given a key to the house and are free to come and go as they please, but need to respect the routine of the family they are staying with.
We have many different types of host families and we try to select the best match for you.
All families are carefully screened and must meet the School’s stringent requriments before being accepted as a host family.