Advantages

  • Low costs or even free boards and lodging
  • Often a chance to gain some pocket money
  • You are embedded in the culture of the country.
  • Intensive language learning
  • You get to know new interesting people by being integrated in the
    circle of friends of the family
  • You can build up relationships for your professional life later on,
    for example an internship or a position abroad
  • You get to know the country form and insider position and not as a
    tourist
  • Safety - you know where you will stay and that you will be welcomed
    by your family.