Homestay & School Integration in France

Live with a welcoming French host family, and go to a local French High school through our French Homestay and High School integration program in France!

This is a program that allows you to live a firsthand living experience in France, for the duration of 2 to 10 weeks. Even though this is a cultural program more than an academic one, students attend at a local school, and participate during class assessments, in order to enrich their French knowledge.

Highlights of the French homestay and French school exchange program: 

• The aim of this program is to discover the French school system, and to experience social integration with French teenagers. The student is exempt from doing homework and taking examinations, and it is generally not possible to transfer credits to the home school.
• Students are placed with warm and welcoming volunteer French families, who are looking for an intercultural experience.
• Students have a 24/7 emergency phone number.
• Arrival is in Paris, but the student will travel to the final destination with a Chaperone.

You are an exchange student in France, even for just a few weeks and as such, you attend school every weekday. The school day may be quite long in France: don’t be surprised to stay at school up to 5 or even 6pm! The Wednesday afternoons are dedicated to extracurricular activities, such as participate in a club, attend a music school or do sports trainings. You spend your weekends with your French host family sharing their habits and usual activities. You really integrate as a new member of the host family! They immerse you in their family lives!

As an exchange student in France you are placed with a volunteer French host family offering full board. This means that all meals are included during your stay, including those taken at school!  Our French host families volunteer to host you, which means that they do not receive money to provide you with room and board. The host families welcome their exchange student for several weeks, in the hope that the experience will lead to a lasting friendship. They look forward to share not only their language, but also their everyday life with someone eager to participate! Our French host families live all over France and you will go to the high school your host siblings attend.

Please contact Nacel Canada for further details.

Host family and high school immersion in France

Price includes

• Administration fees
• Full board stay in host family (or student residence for Intensive French and Activities in Paris program)
• Airport pick-up and transfers in destination country
• Organization and assistance throughout the stay
• Support, assistance and 24 hours emergency phone number during the whole program
• Medical and Emergency Repatriation Insurance
  

Price does not include

• International airfare
• International travel insurance
• Visa, passport and medical exam fees
• Extra activities outside of the program
• Extra language courses
• Personal expenses and pocket money
  

Even though this mini High School program is a cultural one, students are required to have a minimum of one year of studies of the French language, as well as being between 15 to 17 years of age at the time of the arrival. Participants must show that they are mature enough to participate in the French homestay and school immersion in France, that requires:

• Interest in learning about the French culture and French language
• Deep desire to integrate with a different family and share actively their everyday life
• Enthusiasm for improving language communication skills
• Willingness to make new friends

• An open and flexible attitude during the French homestay in France