TSC HOMESTAYS

Part of the TSC focus on cultural awareness and experience comes from living with a Thai host.  Our hosts are all professionals, many are teachers, some are nurses, and a few are doctors who have time to be a host.  The hosts are a representation of the Thai society –married, married with children, single, or divorced - very similar to the spectrum of Western society.

Living with a Thai host allows participants to gain a first hand insight into life as a Thai.  Many participants have the unique opportunity to attend weddings, new house warming’s and funerals with their Thai hosts.  Participants with culinary aspirations have the opportunity to learn Thai cooking but –everyone starts at the washing and cutting of vegetables, before they graduate to the cooking level.

A typical Thai house.

Host family

Participant comments:

"I could not have had a more enriching experience; I only wish that my stay would have been much longer.  My host family was just wonderful and made me feel quite at home and amazingly comfortable.  It was great that I could joke around with then and totally be myself.  Thank god for their sense of humor!  We got along really well and I will miss them terrible."

Sharron Prescott