This program offers participants an exciting chance to learn to speak Spanish while becoming part of Spanish life. By staying with a Spanish family, students strengthen their language skills and steep themselves in Spanish culture.
Our families take good care of the students and offer them a warm and kind environment.
Students are not allowed to be away from their home in Barcelona overnight, and curfews will be strictly enforced.
1 or 2 students per family (please, inform us about your preferences). Shared or private room. Breakfast and dinner with the family. All bed linens, pillows and towels are provided.
Family provides a laundry service (1 or 2 laundries per week).
Our host families are diverse with young couples without children, couples with children (of all age groups) and older couples with grown children who are no longer at home. Families are carefully selected by the school. Each family has been personally visited by SpainBCN Directors.
Host families live in the surrounding neighborhoods. Most families are located either in or near the center of Barcelona. Most students have about a 15 min (or less) walk or bus ride to get to SpainBCN in the morning. High School Program students will all be housed in close proximity one to another.
* Rules :
Students will be expected to follow house rules. Student will be expected to make his/her own bed, help to keep the room tidy, leave the bathroom, shower and toilets clean.
Only 1 or 2 laundries will be provided per week.
* Curfews:
Students under 18 are not allowed to be away from their home in Barcelona overnight (after 11,00) and curfews will be strictly enforced. A student bad behaviour may then result in the school contacting the parent or guardian to inform them that the parents/guardians must speak with their child directly.
Those parents or guardians who want to permit their children to go out during the night need to send us a formal permission slip explaining which days per week students can go out at night and when he/she must return. They will take their own responsability.
* Phone calls:
SpainBCN School's phone number if you're in Spain: 93 487 00 04
From Europe: 00 34 93 487 00 04
From USA: 011 34 93 487 00 04
Dialling: international code 34 (Spain), 93 (city, Barcelona)
Participants are normally not permitted to make long-distance phone calls from their host family, however parents may call the participants at the accommodation at specific times. It is also customary to keep calls brief. Students can use the phone when using pre-paid cards (which are available in many stores).
