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During the hospital stay, the host family did not visit or communicate and eventually evicted the student from the house before the contract ended, forcing them to stay in the hospital and prompting their parents to urgently come to Canada.
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The student’s parents had to authorize the agency's Chinese manager to take them to the emergency room, where doctors found the student severely dehydrated and hypothermic.
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The student eventually developed severe gallstone pancreatitis due to irregular meals and was hospitalized in critical condition. The host family neither provided meals nor took the student to the hospital.
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Despite repeatedly requesting to change host families due to being served spoiled food and other issues, their complaints were ignored by the local study abroad agency.
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This story is about how the student and their roommate experienced severe neglect and mistreatment from their host family while studying abroad.
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Despite the student room being tidy, the host complained and threatened to report them to their Chinese manager and parents, possibly sending them home. The student questions if these demands are normal, noting that only their host family in the small city behaves this way.
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The host then began entering their rooms when they were out, demanding they vacuum, clean the bathroom, and change bed sheets. The quality of food also declined from fresh meals to leftovers and canned food.
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However, by the end of October, she imposed new rules requiring the student and their roommate to wash all the family's dishes daily, even if they didn't eat at home.
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A student's story about living with a host family: Initially, their elderly white host was kind with reasonable house rules.
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A Canadian international student from Beijing described his/her homestay experience. S/he showed his/her experience of having meals and getting along with the homestay’s niece. #HostFamily #HomestayCanada
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Let's create a caring, voluntary, sensible, and empathetic environment where their voices are heard and their hardships embraced.
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It's vital that we prompt the healthcare field to heighten awareness, provide culturally specific approaches, and address systemic issues to support these students.
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The inner turmoil, unvoiced struggles, and hard-to-cope acculturative stress haunting international students' health and well-being is a lasting and escalating issue that needs to be addressed.
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Despite its growth, the journey has been marked by challenges and milestones. 🌍🏠#K12Homestay #CanadaLife #InternationalStudents #Homestay #StudentLife #History #Education
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