Inbound Program: Hosting a Chilean Student
- Chilean students are very excited about their first time experience in the USA! Their English is quite good and they look forward to practicing with you and your friends. These students will be giving up their summer vacation to come and visit Oregon (the seasons are reversed in Chile) to get to know firsthand school culture, and make many new friends.
- The Chilean student will attend your local neighborhood high school, typically with your son or daughter.
- Chilean students should be welcomed as a family member and treated like your own children. They should be expected to follow family rules and help with household chores.
- Familiarize your visiting student with house guidelines: when meals are served, guidelines for helping oneself to food, how laundry is handled, what time is curfew, etc.
- Provide 3 meals a day, including option to make a sack lunch for school if they wish. If they choose to buy lunch at school or off campus, they use their own money.
- Provide a bed, either in a room of their own or sharing with the host brother or sister.
- They will have their own spending money. They should arrive with a couple hundred dollars in cash and all have ATM cards.
- All are covered by health and accident insurance. Host families usually contact their family doctor first, to see if the visiting student can be temporarily added as a patient.
- Students are NOT allowed to drive or ride a motorcycle.
- We have a no tolerance alcohol and drug policy for visiting students. Involvement with illegal drugs or alcohol during this program is grounds for immediate dismissal from the program.
- Computer time should be limited! They are here to learn English and about our culture.
- Detailed information on school registration and scheduling of classes will be facilitated by your coordinator.
- Oversight of exchanges and host family matching is done by Sandra Maldonado in Osorno, Chile and Sachiko Itoh in Eugene.