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What is a homestay?
Homestay is an accommodation option we offer international students through a partnership with local families and individuals. We select hosts to be part of our Homestay Program through an online registration process that is completely FREE. You may choose to offer additional services such as guardianship for international students below the ages 18 years old. Based on your preferences, our job will be to match a suitable student.
Among the services we run, it includes an in-home interview prior to finalizing the student’s accommodation placement with the selected host. Students pay hosts a monthly fee, and hosts provide a comfortable home, meals and a opportunity to experience life in Singapore along with the food delights if you wish - the satay, mee siam, hokkien mee.
With homestay, both the students and the hosts have to make a commitment to try to create a lasting arrangement. Hosts adjust their homes and schedules; students come from thousands of miles away, trusting they will have a happy, safe, clean environment to live in while they pursue
their education.
Homestay situations require honest effort on the part of both student and host, to try to communicate with each other. There are times when a lack of understanding of culture or language can create frustration and unhappiness. For instance, the host may be expecting the student to participate in all the family activities of the household, when the student does not wish to do so. Or, the host family may be too busy to include the student in everything.
What are Homestay host’s (your) responsibilities?
In return, we expect students to abide by house rules, program guidelines and responsibilities. As with any relationship, there will be differences in behaviour and experience. Hosts and students should not expect all homestay arrangements to be the same.
