Host family horror stories
Actually, this very nice article on EF and Kaplan in California is far more fair than my scandal raking post title (note to The Guardian- real journalism on TEFL is possible!), but thought it might be a good chance to get some juicy anecdotes on host families from commenters
To get you started, the best student story I heard was being so hungry that they tried to sneakily cook a potato (singular) while their host mother was out but on hearing the car pull into the driveway they had to run upstairs with a boiling hotpotato and eat the half cooked evidence. They were paying 40 pounds a week including meals in London zone 4, so my sympathy is tempered somewhat, even for those who lived in Catford
July 30th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
There were some serious reports recently mentioned in U.S. news media:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/15/us.exchange.students/index.html