Homestay in Halifax, Canada
In a homestay you can expect a furnished room for privacy and study and 3 healthy meals each day. Breakfast is usually self serve, a packed lunch is provided for you and dinner is served each night together as a family, a great opportunity for natural conversation.

You can also expect to spend quality time with your homestay family. Approximately two hours of each day will be devoted to quality interaction with your family. You can join the family in activities as they help you discover Halifax, which is an excellent way to practice your new language skills!

A full time Homestay Management team manages the Homestay Program. This means continued and dedicated support in taking care of the individual needs of students and ensuring the comfort of everyone. Questions and complaints should be directed to the school administration. All complaints are immediately dealt with, no matter the size, to ensure that the students enjoy all aspects of life in Halifax, Canada.

All of the families are carefully chosen by the Homestay Manager to provide the best homestay experience. Halifax has an exceptional selection of homestay families who are caring, respectful, supportive, and interactive. We do our best to match students and families in a way that ensures everyone’s comfort and safety.

Guidelines for homestay requests:

• Most of the families live in the Dartmouth area. You should be prepared to travel by bus everyday. It is not always possible to be placed within walking distance to the school. Commuting from homestays to the school can take up to one hour in the morning and evening. This is a typical part of the Canadian lifestyle especially among Canadian students.
• We can not always accommodate requests for specific family size. The typical Canadian family will have one or two children. A large family household often does not have room to host a student. You should be prepared to stay with other typical Canadian families. Many host families have no children or their children are adults living away from home. Many host families are single men or women.
• Some host families may host more than one student from the school at the same time. You should be prepared to live with another student from the school. We try to avoid placing two students of the same language in the same house.
• Most of the homestay families have non-smoking households. If you smoke, you may be asked to smoke outside the home only.

Alternative options: Some students also get their own apartments. After you arrive in Halifax, you will be able to search for this type of living and possibly share an apartment with another student.