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[sportsguy35]

I am looking for some stories about homestays.

I have a wonderful homestay. I teach them 2 hours a week. I get my own bedroom, bigger than most one rooms. I have a bathroom to myself. She washes and dries all of my clothes and cleans my room everyday. It's pretty much incredible. I teach at a church kindergarden and I have known the family for about a year. I have been at the home 3 months and it has been my best time in Korea. Learning Korean and playing with the kids are some plusses also. When I first moved to Korea I shared a 5 bedroom apt. with 3 Korean young guys. That was the total opposite. I hated it. I was new to the whole " get the bathroom as wet as possible when you take a shower" idea. Bon-dae-gee and Kim-Chi were also new smells for me. I like my situation much better now. Any other homestay people out there?

[Gollum]

I did. It was a good experience.

Not sure I'd do it again, though. Too old.

[sheba]

I did and I hated it...

From day three I was being asked when I would be finding a job... I tutored 8 hours a week which was a nightmare, one kid was hypo and the other at times just refused to speak to me. They had no respect for their parents or me.

I had my own room but the kids came in whenever they wanted and thought it was fun to bang on the door to wake me up at all hours of the night and morning... not to mention going through my things when I wasnt there.

I wasnt allowed to travel or go anywhere alone and the mum refused to take me anywhere (excpet for the last weekend I was there). I was left home alone overnight twice, where my hostmum has asked her friends to stop in a couple of times per day to make sure I was ok....

I was pawned off to my hostmums friends to 'play' with four 10 year old girls for 5 hours every saturday, oh and while Im at it please correct their english... (dumb way of saying free tutoring).

Yea I wasnt a happy camper... I was supposed to stay 10 weeks but made up an excuse to come home after 5.... I have recently stayed with a Korean family for my 4 day vacation, and although it was a terrific experience, Ive realised that homestays just arent for me. I love the first hand cultural experience, but I just cannot relax in someone elses home...

[Hanson]

There was a thread about this a while back...

Here it is...

http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=39350&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0