420W Journal #2

Fortunately, this weekend, I escaped from my homestay life, a noisy, mussy and restricted life. First,because of the three dogs that the family feeded. They gnar every day when there are some foot passengers passing near the house or their masters leaving of room. Last week, the hosts of the homestay went back to their hometown, the littile dogs kept gnaring till to the midnight. By the other hand, these dogs are not accustomed keep the good habits of hygiene. So you shoud becarefull about where you step on. therefore, this family has a bad neighborship.

Except for the troubles of dogs, the biggest problem is the complex relationship between we and the host. Not only the different backgrounds of culture, but also the personalities caused many clashes. First of all, They think homestay is a family business, so what they think the most important staff is reduce the cost. So we can't wash underweares in the bathroomfor for breakage of the floor , we can't take bathe exceed 10 munites for gas, and we also can't use internet whenever as we like forpower. We can't touch fridge for much food, and also we can't eat food with them even the bread were separated. Second, they really like complaim, they were harping on the small things while we were taking food. The most serious problem is their suspicion. Sometimes they paid attention of your behavior and words such as listeningthe voice from our room, standing out of the bathroom for waiting to check if we wash the socks when we were taking shower. So many following thing made us crazy.

Althrough many homestaies are kind, some families still exist many problems. As a kind of ways to deal with the problems for international students living, homestay has became more and more popular in west countries. So we need some criterion not just for the students but also for the homestaies. And the students need a institutionto complain to solve the troubles. After all, balance comes from two sides.