to be uncomfortable with this?

[winkywinkola]

So, we registered with our local college to take two home stay students.

The college told us we should charge £150 per week for a bedroom, two meals a day (I will give all three at the weekends anyway), all washing done and cleaning of room.

They've come back with one who sounds absolutely lovely.

But she says she can't afford £150 per week. She asked if she could do our cleaning and ironing for us and reduce it to £100 per week. Thing is, I have loads of ironing that takes about 4 hours minimum per week. Cleaning my house with 4 dcs would take a good 2-3 hours per week.

She would go to college to study English 2 evenings per week.

I feel like it's too vague. I feel like she'd be working her ass off and STILL have to pay to live here. I would feel like I had a resident slave!

Please could you tell me what would be reasonable?

So this particular student has said £150 per week is too much for her without a job.

I'm relieved. I was worried there might be extra drama if has couldn't find a job etc

I think it's a fair price for bed, bills, all meals bar weekday lunches and laundry. And exposure to language as part of our family.

I'm a qualified EFL teacher actually. Perhaps I should start up again and get my own students. Kitchen table English lessons!

The college (Aylesbury) places mostly Chinese and Bangladeshi students. I've not heard any more from them.

Ah well. Perhaps it was not meant to be.

Thanks all for your input.

Hey winky- quite a few organizations do a hometutor stay thingy, you might be interested in looking into that? You'd certainly get paid more because you'd be tutoring as well as washing pants!