Having been a student for a major part of my life, which I believe

everyone educated in their early 20s and 30s are, I strongly feel that

a host home is an ideal place to stay, when one's education is at an

unknown and a new place away from home.

During school days, I had learnt about the barter system in my history

syllabus where goods and services are exchanged.  And today I firmly

believe that all countries in the world can survive their worst

economic times, if they still have this system in place.  Exchanging

goods for goods, goods for services or services for services can ensure

one's survival during this time of recession and the worst economic

downslide.

Finding a host family these days is tough ask especially if as a

student you are at an unknown place where you don't know anyone and you

don't know whom to trust.  Hostandcare then has the answer for you.  It

is the place where people meet, where families meet, where shelter is

found, where money is saved, where friendship develops and evolves,

where new environments are explored, where even new languages can be

learnt, where all your mental blocks, if at all you may have any, as a

student about getting to a new place and making ends meet are laid to

rest.

Giving is always a pleasure, more pleasure than taking, and if you can

take care of someone's children, in-short baby-sitting and play games

with them and teach them a few good things and impart in them a few

moral values and are also able to help them out in their school

studies, then at the end of the day you go satisfied to bed with a

sense of accomplishment.  And if this is what you are good at and you

put it to use and in return you get to save on the money to buy or rent

a furnished place, you get to save on time you take to commute to what

would most likely be a low-paying job elsewhere, then it is the best

return gift.

It is this homestay quite different from that stay at a hostel where

students often get abusive and crack dirty jokes or a stay at a rented

place where the landlord is often shouting at you and commenting on

your behaviour that is the best part, it is a home away from home, a

family that you have away from your family.  The bonding that you

establish as you mingle with the homestay family and its sweet memories

that you develop of these, you carry with yourself ever after.