At home, we enjoy hosting guests from other countries and have been doing this for many years.
Often these have been international students, referred to us by the local schools. Sometimes they have been young international adults on a working holiday experience in New Zealand. Or simply travellers who wanted to spend a few nights here in Whitianga.
We are currently working on a programme called "homestay with a teacher" (Joerg is a CELTA qualified English teacher with 15 years' teaching experience). This is going to be for people whose first language is not English and wish to learn a little English while enjoying the beautiful surroundings of Whitianga, but are not prepared to commit themselves to lessons at an English language school. This is not meant to be "home schooling", but rather simply having the advantage of being able to learn some proper English by staying in the home of a qualified and experienced English teacher.
