British host families invite overseas students to experience traditional culture for Christmas.

"British host families invite overseas students to experience traditional culture for Christmas" was reported in June 5438+February 65438+March. When studying in Britain, you can't miss the opportunity to experience traditional festivals.

For the past 25 years, Host UK has been responsible for arranging international students studying in the UK to visit British families, including normal hours and Christmas.

Christmas is a good opportunity to visit British families, because many foreign students will not go home during Christmas. Spending the holidays in the host's house can avoid the loneliness of spending the holidays alone, and can also experience the way the British spend Christmas.

Margaret Stevens, who has hosted international students for more than 25 years, said, "Many international students have never spent Christmas in Britain. They don't know that there are no trains on Christmas day and the shops are closed. "

John Lever has received students from many different countries. He said, "I also learned a lot from receiving students and learned about their culture and what happened."

He joked, "Sometimes I feel that I know these countries better than officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs."

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Since its establishment, the British reception organization has been mainly funded by the British Council, which is about half of the operating cost of this charity organization, but the funding stopped five years ago.

Organizers must raise their own funds, mainly the fees provided by universities, the application fees of students (sometimes paid by universities) and private donations.

At present, there are about 1600 host families in Britain. Most of the volunteers participating in this charity activity are British families with independent children over 55, but some are families with children or single-parent families.

British universities are also very keen on this kind of family trusteeship. After all, overseas students who pay full tuition fees increase the income of universities.