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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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