CIEE Paris Could have been so much better

When my parents paid all this money to send me to France for a summer, they were promised a French family that would integrate their student into French culture. They were also told about the academics and the excursions. Academics and the excursions were just fine. The homestay was not as advertised and not corrected.

Instead of getting a French family that was schooled in France and spoke French very well, we got an immigrant African family who’s French was very Accented, never bothered to do anything with the students living with them, not even sitting down at the dinner table and talking to them. However, the west African cuisine that was constantly served was tasty. What made matters worse, Is that the management in the United States said nothing was wrong with this arrangement. It was a dorm type arrangement not a family one. The redeeming feature here was that the apartment was centrally located.

As a further sign of neglect by the head of the program in Paris, one free concert was scheduled for the group in spite of they’re being close to 1000 options. The headquarters had no comment on this oversight. We suggested the program in Paris get new leadership.