In fact, homestays depend on luck. Some are very good, but some have a lot of rules. If you find that they are really not good after you come, you can change them, but generally you should pay attention to the following points:

1. For us, cooking by foreigners is not delicious. In fact, it is mainly a matter of eating habits. They all think that bread for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch, and pizza/chips for dinner are enough. If you are not used to it, you can go out to eat or buy ingredients to cook it yourself. . (There are several Chinese gathering areas in Melbourne, and Chinese shops there have almost everything; if you meet a better homestay, they may often take you out to eat together. Most foreigners like to eat Chinese food)

3. Foreigners pay great attention to protecting the environment. For example, they take baths very quickly (almost all foreigners in our class only take 2-3 minutes to take a bath, so some people will limit your bathing time). Garbage must be sorted and so on.

2. Generally speaking, Australians are very enthusiastic, and you can improve your English by chatting with them (occasionally they will ignore you if they have children)

3. If you use an agency, be careful of scams. It turns out that my classmate once paid money to the agency, but the homestay said he didn’t receive it and could only pay two copies (= =)

Personally, I think there is nothing wrong with staying in a homestay. Special attention should be paid to the following, generally in life:

1. Generally it is best not to go shopping after 8.9 o'clock (the shops here usually close at 5 o'clock), some Vietnamese in Melbourne In areas with many black people and refugees, there are many drunkards and lunatics at night, and there are often robberies and the like (mostly in the northwest of Melbourne). After all, a girl is very dangerous.

2. Foreigners always talk about "sorry". No matter you bumped into someone else, someone else bumped into you, or they disturbed someone else, they will say this, usually after a week. It will form a habit (this habit once caused me to be treated as an idiot when I returned to China)

3. It is best not to choose a language school in Box Hill (the name of a Chinese gathering area), where almost It is useless for learning English, because except for the teacher, everyone else is Chinese, so after class, Chinese is taught and Chinese is taught in class.

4. Australian clothes and shoes are ugly and expensive, so be sure to bring more if possible.

5. Because everyone lives alone, everyone grows flowers at home, and the pollen from flowers often causes allergies in some people (this is the most popular disease in spring in Australia)

In fact, because It's a homestay, so you don't have to worry about many things. Some people may not be used to it because the "nightlife" here is too monotonous, but after getting familiar with it, it's still very fun: go out with friends to learn to dance, draw, and occasionally sing karaoke. OK, eat some delicious Italian/French food, go see lavender and penguins during the holidays, and go skiing, plus the good environment here (yes, I already like it here~)... .......

PS: Which school will your sister go to? Maybe we will go to the same school~ (I am from MLC)