What to expect
For Students:
Living with a local family is the ideal way to integrate into Canadian culture.
Visitors become a true member of the family and the community and participate
in all the activities of daily life and practice their English.
Your new family is as excited to meet you as you are to meet them. Canadian families
are very diverse, coming from a variety of ethnic cultural backgrounds. Families often reflect both typical "Canadian" lifestyles as well as traditions brought from their original culture. Regardless of the outward appearance and demographic of the family, you can be assured that your new host family is ready to look after you, care for you, and treat you as they would their own child.
Each family has a strong interest to welcome an international visitor into their home and is eager to provide a friendly, supportive and nurturing environment. Families believe that hosting a student is a rewarding and unique experience that will not only enrich the life of the young student, but that of their family’s as well. All homestay families have been carefully screened and selected for their enthusiasm and ability to provide excellent hospitality. They go through an interview process and fill out a family profile. Our coordinators make customized selections with much care and attention to the students and families needs, requests, hobbies and personalities.
Host families come from a variety of cultural backgrounds and circumstances. We enlist a wide range of suitable families as hosts including, retired couples, single parent families and childless families. They will provide 3 meals daily, a private room and study area for the student. Families are available to host one or two guests.
For Canadian Host Families: 
Students can come from any number of different countries. MLI works with agents
in South and Central America, Europe, and Asia. Students may stay for a few days,
to a few months, or a whole year. Students require their own bed, 3 meals a day,
and a welcoming environment which encourages them to use their English skills.
Students may be here studying as part of a group, or may have come on their own.
They may have a full schedule of activities and events, or simply be attending regular
classes.