taking on foreign students.... is it worth it

March2012

i have been offered to take on 2 students at 75 each per week. is it worthwhile by the time the electrics and gas paid out and food. any idea of cheap meals option maybe?

asajj

75 a week, everything included? Sometimes food isn't.

March2012

And just wondering by the time u feed th etc is it worth it?

asajj wrote: »

75 a week, everything included? Sometimes food isn't.

lessonlearned

Do you have a family to consider or just yourself..

My mother was Belgian . Each year we had Belgian teenagers from her village descend on us so that they could learn English. Mum rarely got paid but she liked doing it.

I hated it, so did my sister. They overstayed their welcome, we had to entertain them, our home never felt like home - they were just a nuisance and we couldn't wait to be rid of them.

£75 per week is peanuts for that level of disruption and aggro.

I wouldn't do it for £75O and I certainly wouldn't have subjected my kids to it.

HappyMJ

March2012 wrote: »

i have been offered to take on 2 students at 75 each per week. is it worthwhile by the time the electrics and gas paid out and food. any idea of cheap meals option maybe?

You don't need to provide food...well maybe the essentials. Salt, pepper, spices and other bits but not actual meals.

£150 a week all inclusive...no thanks. That's me though.

Cheap meals are simple meals. Stir fry vegetables with rice. Pasta with a tomato based sauce. Meat is not required. They can have a big lunch out at their own cost every day. Breakfast can just be toast with spread..maybe tea, coffee and milk. Squash is fine (but I'd make it up and put it in another bottle in the fridge). Maybe a cooked roast dinner on a Sunday. Don't go overboard. Just the basics.

VanyaHargreeves

As a student, I've never heard of food being provided for lodgers. Generally it's "here's your cupboard, here's your shelf in the fridge, sort yourself out".

Voyager2002

VanyaHargreeves wrote: »

As a student, I've never heard of food being provided for lodgers. Generally it's "here's your cupboard, here's your shelf in the fridge, sort yourself out".

This is a completely different situation: young teenagers who have come for a short English course and need to be looked after by an English family.

VanyaHargreeves

Voyager2002 wrote: »

This is a completely different situation: young teenagers who have come for a short English course and need to be looked after by an English family.

I can't see where it says that?

I am a student in a very diverse city and an awful lot of my friends are foreign students. In their first year most of them were lodgers with local families. They had a room, space in kitchen and fridge and were told that if they needed help they could ask, but otherwise they were on their own.

March2012

And yes 3 times a day u have to feed them!

VanyaHargreeves wrote: »

I can't see where it says that?

I am a student in a very diverse city and an awful lot of my friends are foreign students. In their first year most of them were lodgers with local families. They had a room, space in kitchen and fridge and were told that if they needed help they could ask, but otherwise they were on their own.

Voyager2002

VanyaHargreeves wrote: »

I can't see where it says that?

I am a student in a very diverse city and an awful lot of my friends are foreign students. In their first year most of them were lodgers with local families. They had a room, space in kitchen and fridge and were told that if they needed help they could ask, but otherwise they were on their own.

It doesn't, but I think it is obvious from the OP that this is different from the situation of your friends.

Carfal

Don't forget the phone bill!

Never taken any in but have heard the horror stories of the behaviour of young English language students on summer courses. Some are only young teens, which sounds like a huge responsibility. As well as feeding them, you may have to entertain them at the weekend as well.