About Building Blocks Homestay
Home Away From Home
Hosting an international student is a wonderful, rewarding experience for any person or family.
You get an excellent opportunity for your family members to learn about another’s culture, and build long lasting relationships and lifelong memories.
Building Blocks Homestay’s goal is to provide a “Home away from Home” experience with a comfortable living environment for the visiting international students by:
- Providing a bedroom with bed & dresser
- Providing 2 meals per day - breakfast and dinner (lunch is provided by school) 3 healthy meals on non-school days
- Provide Transportation and/or Carpool to and from school
Learning From Each Other
Each homestay experience should provide an opportunity for the student and the host family to learn from each other, share interests and establish a foundation for a successful stay in America whether it’s a short term or long term stay.
A worthwhile Endeavour
Other than providing housing, meals, and transportation, we only ask that you take the student in and treat him/her as you would your own child, and try to include student in activities and outings (mall, amusement parks, sporting events etc). The student will pay for all of his/her extra expenses, but feel free to treat the student once in a while if you’d like.
Hosting an international student can be both rewarding and beneficial to your family. Hosting a student in your home gives you an opportunity to earn extra income for your family. You can make $35 per student/per night and even earn up to $700 per week. But the real reward is opening up your home and heart, and sharing your family with a well deserving student.
Classes
- ESL
- Robotics/STEM
- Hip Hop Dance
- Photography
- Video Production
- Intro to Film Making
- Culinary ARTS
- American Youth Sub-Cultural
- Public Speaking
Camps
- ESLNCAA - NBA Level Basketball skills camp
- Volleyball
- Badminton
- Baseball
- Tennis
Tours
- UCLA
- USC
- Cal State LA
- Other colleges of choice
- Warner Bros Studio
- City of Hope (11th best hospital in the nation)
- Fire Station
- Police Station
- 2 Hollywood City Tours
- Other places of choice
Original Hollywood Tour (2 hour) includes seating on open air bus touring Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Hot spots & Star homes.
Grand LA Tour (7 hour) seating on a luxury bus touring Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica Pier, Farmers market, Griffith Observatory, and Walk of Fame. (1 hour stops at 4 locations)
Excursions
- Disneyland
- Universal Studios
- Universal City walk
- Knotts Berry Farm
- Six Flags Magic Mountain
- Aquarium of the Pacific
- Getty Museum
- Sky Slide ride in LA
- Sky Zone Trampoline
- Lakers/Clippers NBA games
- USC/UCLA College games
- Dodgers/Angels MLB games
- Rams/Chargers NFL games
- Sea World, San Diego
- Lego Land, San Diego
- And more!