Host Family Research Paper

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Effects of Living with a Host Family Living with a host family while on exchange or while studying is stressful and all over bad for your health. I know this from a person experience. While living with the host family I do in Mannheim, I have learned so much about strict parents. With a host family, you follow their rules of course, but when the rules mean losing your sanity it’s not worth it. For Instance, my host family does not allow us to eat between meals. If you want to eat, you have to eat the times that they eat and what they eat. The host family eats muesli at 7am, 12pm they eat salad and a sandwich, and at 6pm some bread with salami. A primary concert is that you won’t like their food and will end up not eating, sometimes for long periods of times. At the beginning or even longer you will feel too uncomfortable to cook when and what you want to eat. Technology is another factor into my experiences living with this host family. The host family gives you a five page rule book that has 2 pages about the internet. Some of these rules include no pictures online of them, their house, their property, their dogs, kids, or the school. You also can’t have these photos stored to your icloud. This effects you stressfully by scaring your family into thinking something is wrong. My mom for …show more content…
How much stress and what age group you can handle. I feel I can handle 8 year olds like my little brother Nicholas back home. I have 4 other siblings, all different ages. (6,8,17,21) Living with my host family now there are only two kids that are (4/6?) but being raised differently I feel depressed and like I’m walking on eggshells. Some examples of this is I can’t leave the kids alone, even when having to go to the bathroom; they come with. I can’t scuffle my feet, incase they start copying me. Even when you want a break, the host parents work at home and they are so anti social, as well as their