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:

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.

"Its been going great with Amu. We had movie night tonight. She is making lots of friends at school. She had photography today and she enjoyed it. The girls love her and are enjoying spending time with her"

Noha

"The bond that I made in only 6 days was very special to me. I had a great time with Ms Maria. Her house was beautiful and she made us good food too. She took us to the mall, and everywhere. I will miss Ms Maria and I plan to come back to visit her and her family again real soon."

Monica

"They surprised us because they learned our dance routine so quickly, and it was a lot of fun. Most of them had some really good dance moves too."

Aubrey & Kiah

"I'm happy that I had the opportunity to meet some new friends. They were very funny and we made great memories and I'm glad that we still keep in touch on WeChat."

Macy

"We love hosting your students. Anytime we can open our home up to a deserving student.. we will."

Rosana

"The hardest parts are always the "goodbye's. My family had an AWESOME time with the 2 girls. They taught us so much. I'm happy we are able to keep in touch with them via Instagram. Thank you again for the wonderful opportunity to host your students."

Maria

ESL
Robotics/STEM
Hip Hop Dance
Photography
Video Production
Intro to Film Making
Culinary ARTS
American Youth Sub-Cultural
Public Speaking

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)