HOSTING

Welcoming a visitor from another country into your home can be a wonderful experience for the entire family. LEX offers the opportunity to host not only students, but also adults, couples and families with small children. Stays in your home can range from 1-2 weeks to a month, or even a year! Host families vary greatly in size, background, occupation, and interests. What makes a good host family is a willingness to share your lives with a new family member and a taste for the adventure of mutual discovery.

 

Annual Transnational Exchange to Boston (April - May)
Host families wanted, to make beautiful memories with adults and families from Japan, Mexico and Korea!

Every year, around the end of April to the beginning of May, our LEX staff organizes an exchange program between Japan, Mexico, Korea and Boston. This year, we are happy to report that our visitors from Japan and Mexico had a truly enjoyable homestay experience thanks to our wonderful host families! The role of the host family is to share their day to day activities with our visitors and share in the exchange of cultures and languages. For more information on how to become a host family for our annual Transnational Exchange to Boston, please contact us at info@lexlrf.org or (617) 354-1150. We offer this exciting opportunity once a year, during the springtime. This is a great chance for you and your family to experience the benefits of a international exchange program and make lifelong friendships! So come join us and become a host family today!

Magical! Our visitor's presence was magical! All of us - aunts, uncles, and assorted cousins - had such an exciting "new" dimension added to our lives. We learned numerous words, shared the wonderful dinners she cooked so lovingly, and absorbed a new culture through her conversations with us. A Massachusetts family

Words are Not Enough Words do not begin to explain the joy I have experienced in hosting Satoshi. This whole week has been chock full of wonderful, insightful and educational events, for not only my family, but for many members of our community. Chuck K.

Hosting is the Next Best Thing to Going We enjoyed it very much - the next best thing to actually going to Japan. It was a wonderful experience for each member of our family, it felt like we were on vacation. Our guests (a Japanese family of four) adapted very nicely. They were very helpful and felt like a part of our family. The parents both spoke excellent English. The children didn't seem to have difficulty communicating with our children even though they spoke little English. The McNair Family