Advantages/Disadvantages
<Homestay>
Living with a host family helps students:
- To improve English/ French skill;
- To experience real Canadian life;
- To feel safe and to be able to get support in case of emergency;
- To feel comfortable at a house with all necessities;
- To be able to meet local people and meet new people other than people at school;
- To be able to go and visit places only the local people know;
- To be able to focus on studying not on problems that may occur at home if a student lives by him/herself or at a residence.
Students need to understand:
- There are rules at each house;
- There are some houses far from school;
- The food is different from those cooked at home;
- There are families with small kids;
- The price for homestay tends to be higher than residence
Although there are some factors that students need to understand when living with a host family, Sakao Enterprise offers our services in order to reduce problems that students may have.
<Residence>
Living in student residence helps students:
- To have more independence and freedom. (However, there are rules.)
- To interact with other students and meet new people outside of school;
- To easily get to school; (Often residence is located closer to school compared a distance from homestay;
- To have an opportunity to learn different languages and culture
Students need to understand:
- Students are responsable to purchase their own food and their laundries;
- There may be less privacy and more noise;
- There may be too much freedom.