Most of the time, a homestay involves a student from another country who is in need of a stable and safe home to complete their studies while going to school somewhere in your city. Often the homestay hosts are mature couples with young or grown children and have an additional room to spare.
Homestays can visit from a few months to a few years, depending on several variables including their age and whether they are in high school, university or staying for business reasons.
Remember these important considerations here when deciding whether to commit space in your home for a homestay student to live. The homestay may be young and naive but the host can be naive as well and may find the inherent costs in hosting don't always allow for the amount of additional income that they had planned on.
Considering Potential Problems
Clear communication is essential. This will always be your number one challenge depending on your students grasp of the language they are coming to learn. Using basic language and smaller words will make communication easier, avoid slang and more complicated phrases. If the student's language skills are exceptionally poor, sometimes it helps for the first while to write down your communication, since it is usually more difficult to speak a language than to read it.
There should be some rules that work to protect both student, and host. Set some rules in place during the interview process with the student and/or their guardian, so that everyone is on the same page. If there is a language barrier then you need to have someone explain the rules to them for you both.
Determining the consequences is as equally vital as defining the rules. If the student comes home high on drugs for instance, is there zero tolerance for this? If these are communicated to both the homestay and also their legal guardian and/or parent then, in the event they are broken, you are afforded more leverage to remove them from your residence.
How Much Does Privacy Mean to You?
Hosting a student can often mean that you will loose some level of privacy. You will need to accommodate for this as students will often want to practice their English they have just learned in school. You may also need to compromise when you want guests or dates over or having a party, and even on what TV programs that you watch in the living room. This can be minimized if you are open to including the student in your activities.
If you were planning on going on vacation or just getting out of town for the weekend you may have a bit of a dilemma. Most homestays require you to prepare meals for the students and be available during meal times to have the student practice their English. You could ask the student to go with you, or look for other options.
There are other factors to consider as well. It will take a lot of extra time to take care of the homestay, including cleaning and cooking and other interactions like conversing, this could take precious time away from your children or other family. You can counter this by including your children in your interactions with your homestay.
Homestays can visit from a few months to a few years, depending on several variables including their age and whether they are in high school, university or staying for business reasons.
Remember these important considerations here when deciding whether to commit space in your home for a homestay student to live. The homestay may be young and naive but the host can be naive as well and may find the inherent costs in hosting don't always allow for the amount of additional income that they had planned on.
Considering Potential Problems
Clear communication is essential. This will always be your number one challenge depending on your students grasp of the language they are coming to learn. Using basic language and smaller words will make communication easier, avoid slang and more complicated phrases. If the student's language skills are exceptionally poor, sometimes it helps for the first while to write down your communication, since it is usually more difficult to speak a language than to read it.
There should be some rules that work to protect both student, and host. Set some rules in place during the interview process with the student and/or their guardian, so that everyone is on the same page. If there is a language barrier then you need to have someone explain the rules to them for you both.
Determining the consequences is as equally vital as defining the rules. If the student comes home high on drugs for instance, is there zero tolerance for this? If these are communicated to both the homestay and also their legal guardian and/or parent then, in the event they are broken, you are afforded more leverage to remove them from your residence.
How Much Does Privacy Mean to You?
Hosting a student can often mean that you will loose some level of privacy. You will need to accommodate for this as students will often want to practice their English they have just learned in school. You may also need to compromise when you want guests or dates over or having a party, and even on what TV programs that you watch in the living room. This can be minimized if you are open to including the student in your activities.
If you were planning on going on vacation or just getting out of town for the weekend you may have a bit of a dilemma. Most homestays require you to prepare meals for the students and be available during meal times to have the student practice their English. You could ask the student to go with you, or look for other options.
There are other factors to consider as well. It will take a lot of extra time to take care of the homestay, including cleaning and cooking and other interactions like conversing, this could take precious time away from your children or other family. You can counter this by including your children in your interactions with your homestay.
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