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The pleasure of sharing the experience

Amici, foto di gruppo in vacanza in Italia

We are a small group of parents living either in Verona or its district, we all have a son aged about sixteen attending school and the whole family are eager to improve our English. For this reason each family would like to host an English speaking student, male or female, of about the same age. We could make trips and explain local habits and traditions. Our guest should correct our basic English and, if he/she is interested, we will gladly teach him/her our language.

This short holiday (of about 10/12 days) is worth our planning effort, but our aim is to make it last longer in the future.

In short, the project will last over a period of more than one year and is divided into three phases.

STEP 1

The Italian family hosts the foreign student at home for an agreed period during summer holidays. The guest shares family life, goes on various types of trips and the expenses are paid for him/her. The students are only expected to pay for their return air ticket. They should be available for error correction and if they wish, they can have information on Italian language to improve their fluency.

STEP 2

If the guests and the families are happy with the Italian experience they will reciprocate the kindness by hosting Italian students in their house abiding the same terms of agreement. Otherwise we must admit that something went wrong and the exchange will not go on.

STEP 3

At this stage the families will meet and if they wish they can reciprocate and host the students at home and their families, most likely, in hotels, B&B, or other agreed accommodation, the cost of which will be on the guest family. During this holiday the guest family is supported by the family hosting them and, when possible, trips, dinners and other activities will be planned for the guests and English will be used on these occasions.
If the exchange is successful the friendly relationship will obviously go on.

As for the first phase, when the Italian families host the foreign students, we must point out that one or more trips will be organized in cooperation and the available parents will take part in them. All the guest students will take part in them as they are a good opportunity for them to meet and make new friends (they are young and may feel homesick).