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SPECIAL
REGULATIONS FOR FAMILY ACCOMMODATION
The current agreement plans a series of scenarios
where rights and duties between the students and their host families
are established. These regulations have been set in order to define a
criteria that will help maintain the coexistence between the involved
parties during the students’ stay in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
I. ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
Hispaniola has a norm of providing individual
rooms to the students unless otherwise a room is requested to be shared
between two students. The room must have a good bed (or two separated
beds, when the room is shared), closet, bureau, fan, a desk or study
table with its lamp and a chair. The room must have a lock with key. No
family items should be left inside the room; the closets must be empty.
The student must sleep alone (or with a same-sex partner, in the case
of shared room) and the privacy of the objects kept in the room must be
respected, never allowing their use by any member of the family. The
bathroom must have hot water. The family must provide: toilet paper,
soap, towels, sheets, pillows, quilt (for cool months). It is not
necessary to put shampoo or any other articles for personal use.
The family must provide the student with a set of
keys of the house, the bedroom, and the closet, to keep the family’s
environment away of disturbance when he / she come in or out of the
house. It is basic the family informs the student about the house’s
schedule in order to keep the proper respect for it and avoid
misunderstandings. It is a duty for the students to advise the family
about late arrivals in order to avoid worries or misunderstandings.
II. PLANS
There are 4 plans.
PLAN B0 No meals. Room cleaning and laundry on a
weekly basis.
PLAN BB Daily breakfast. Room cleaning and laundry on a weekly basis.
PLAN HB 2 daily meals. Room cleaning and laundry on a weekly basis.
PLAN FB 3 daily meals. Room cleaning and laundry on a weekly basis.
· PLAN B0
This is the most economical plan and only includes
the use of the bedroom and once-a-week laundry service, as well as
cleaning of the bedroom with change of sheets and towels one day per
week. We suggest to set with the student one day in the week so he/she
leave their door open and the room organized so the cleaning can be
eased for the housekeeper. The student will be allowed to keep some
kinds of food and beverages in the refrigerator and will be able to
have a limited use of the kitchen to fix himself / herself simple
meals. It is understood that limited use implies a maximum of 20
minutes no more than 3 times per day. The student must leave the
kitchen organized and clean within the 20 minutes limit.
· PLAN BB
It is the same as plan B0 plus a daily breakfast
including weekends and holidays.
Breakfast must be enough for the student’s nutrition needs and it must
have at least coffee, milk, juice, bread, drinking water and fruits.
If the family is going out on a Sunday, and the student decides to
remain at home, arrangements should be made in order to have food for
him / her. It is recommended to include the student in the family
activities.
· PLAN HB
It is the same as plan BB plus one daily meal
including weekends and holidays.
The student will have two meals at the family’s house, meaning
breakfast and dinner. If the family is going out on a Sunday, and the
student decides to remain at home, arrangements should be made in order
to have food for him / her. It is recommended to include the student in
the family activities.
If the student is not vegetarian, dinner must have
meta of: beef, chicken, pork, fish, rice, beans, vegetables or salad.
Son students are vegetarians, then meat can be substituted for a
vegetable based recipes or pasta.
If the responsible person at the house will not be at home at
lunchtime/dinnertime, can leave some food ready for the student
· PLAN FB
It is the same as plan HB plus another daily meal
including weekends and holidays.
This plan has three meals, breakfast, lunch and dinner. If the
responsible person at the house will not be at home at
lunchtime/dinnertime, can leave some food ready for the student.
III. SERVICES
The student will have laundry service once a week.
The family is not responsible if a piece of clothing is damaged;
however, the family is responsible of making sure that the number of
students’ clothes given for laundry are returned completely and are not
mixed or lost among the family’s laundry. Since the beginning, the
family must indicate clearly where and when clothes should be placed
for laundry, placing a basket at the student’s room for such purposes.
It is understood that the laundry also includes change of sheets and
towels once a week. It is not an obligation for the responsible person
at the house to wash delicate garments that must be hand washed or sent
to the dry cleaner: it is the duty of the student to do the washing by
himself / herself or pay the bill if dry cleaning is required.
The student must allow the room cleaning at least
one time per week and keep a certain order that eases such activity.
IV. FAMILY RELATIONS
In no event the student is allowed to receive
visitors that will stay in the house, and it is absolutely prohibited
that other students (excluding the one assigned by the school’s
secretary for room sharing) or family’s relatives stay with the
student. The visits of male and female friends are allowed at the house
until 09:00 p.m. It is not permitted to invite a friend for lunch
without advising the Hostess first.
The student understands that he / she should not
be out of the house later than 12:00 at night, without advising the
family first. The student has the right to be out of the house for a
longer time, after advising his / her Hostess.
The student must pay for any object that he / she
breaks at the family house where he /she are staying, even if it is an
accident such as buying the door lock if the key for the closet,
his/her room or the house’s entrance gets lost. In the event the door
of the bedroom, or closet needs to be broken after locking in the key,
the student must pay for its repair and buy a new lock.
The student has the right to use the telephone to
receive phone calls that cannot exceed a limited time of 3 minutes for
local calls and 5 minutes for international calls. The student will
have the right to use the telephone to make phone calls that cannot
exceed a limited time of 3 minutes for local phone calls. In the event
of long distance phone calls, in or out of the Dominican Republic,
he/she should always do it Collect, via operator or with a calling
card. The student must do all calls to cellular phones using a calling
card. No telephone expense of the student will be charged to the
family.
Strong physical contact, even from children, must
be avoided. Some “games” end up as physical aggressions that are not
allowed by the program.
V. INFORMATION FOR THE STUDENT
The family is responsible to inform the student
about the proper drills in case of a fire or earthquake emergency; the
plans to overcome a hurricane; how to use the stove and the kitchen
appliances, precautions with gas tanks and gas stoves; if electric
water heaters connected to the shower are used, an example of a proper
warning for the student is to recommend not touching it if wet.
VI. SAFETY
In order to increase the safety of the student,
the parties must:
· always leave word with the family about where
the student will be (preferably with a phone number included), if
he/she is going to the beach for the weekend, etc.
· inform if the student has not returned from a
trip as agreed.
· pay his/her own expenses and transportation
bills, as well as medicines if necessary, and show the receipts to the
Program in order to have the medical insurance cover the costs.
VII. SETTLEMENT DAYS
May be possible that students and family, for some
reason do not match. Also possible that something is not exactly
working as it was expected. For this reason students have 4 days time
to ask for changes. After this time no changes are allowed.
VIII. PAYBACK
There won’t any payback for any reasons at any
time.
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