• The Center strongly encourages this option. Living with a carefully selected French family is a privileged form of housing that provides the student with the opportunity to establish personal relationships, use French intensively and be immersed in French culture and traditions on a daily basis.
• The family is a valuable resource allowing for true integration into a neighborhood, life in Paris and France in general.
• Students who choose this option must remember that choosing to live in a French family also means sharing their language, their culture and their food, and adapting to a new family rhythm that is sometimes very different from what they are accustomed to.
• Students planning to have visitors should also bear in mind that inviting strangers to sleep over at their host family’s home is not common practice in France.
• Students electing the CUPA housing option complete a confidential questionnaire to assist CUPA in assuring a mutually rewarding match between the host family and student.
• Students receive breakfast daily and share meals five times per week, except during Christmas and Spring vacations. Lunches are not provided by the French family (this should be taken into consideration when estimating the necessary amount of spending money). The French family will provide towels and bedding, and the student’s laundry will be done once a week.
