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What kind of gifts should you pack to give to a homestay host family? If you’ve read our post, What Sucks About Home-stays and Why You Should Do Them Anyway or Michelle’s book Unconventional Budget Accommodations, you know we’re big fans of getting an authentic, local experience by staying with a host family during your…
This post originally appeared on our personal blog while we were still in Peace Corps. It has been revived here as part of our Jamaican culture series. Home stays are not unique to Peace Corps. They are an integral part of many transformative, cross-cultural programs around the world. Sharing life with another family, being welcomed…
So far in our travels together, we’ve done a number of home-stays abroad. I (Michelle) lived weeks or months at a time with several families in the Dominican Republic during my two summers as an intern. As a part of our in-country Peace Corps training, Jedd and I lived for two weeks with a spicy older…