Housing

Skidmore offers students the opportunity to live with host families. Living in a foreign country is exciting, enriching, interesting, and sometimes, frustrating. It is a fascinating experience in which one learns about different customs and how to speak another language. For this reason, the home-stay experience is one of the program’s most valuable aspects, as it allows students to fully participate in French culture on a daily basis.

As the family experience is so important, we take it very seriously. We have a Housing Coordinator in Paris whose sole job is the personal welfare of the students. The Housing Coordinator visits the Skidmore campus each semester to meet with students, review their housing questionnaires, and answer any questions they may have.

The student's preferences concerning personal comforts, eating habits, health requirements (smoking, allergies, etc.), and family composition are all taken into consideration during family selection. Once the student has been placed in a French home, the Housing Coordinator is in regular contact with both the student and the family to assure that the adaptation continues to go smoothly.

Each student has an individual room with a family (single woman, mother with children, a couple, or a couple with children at home) who has been previously visited and interviewed. The host family will provide breakfast daily and six dinners each week, as well as laundry once a week. Students receive a cash allowance to be used for the other meals.

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last updated May 17, 2006