Dear readers,
I've known for sure for a number of years now, and I want to emigrate to Thailand after my studies. Everything I do now is with a view to successfully setting up an existence there. What comes with that is of course mastering the Thai language, and that is the next step.
From January, I will study one semester at Kasetsart University (Chatuchak / Don Mueang area). In addition to taking Thai lessons at the university, I also want to take extra lessons 3 to 4 days a week. To be completely sure that I will master the Thai language in six months (as far as possible during this period), I plan to live with a Thai host family in order to really be surrounded by the Thai language. language (natural way of learning).
This is also where I come to my question. I searched the internet and you have websites like homestay.com and homestayfinder.com. Unfortunately, there are not that many options here and most of the ads are a bit questionable, too far from the university, only for ladies or hosted by a foreigner himself.
I would like to challenge the readers of Thailandblog to help me think about how I can find a suitable Thai host family somewhat close to Kasetsart University for the period January to June 2017. I myself am very respectful, calm, cooperative, easy going but above all a serious 24 year old engineering student. Maybe someone here with experience in this area has some advice? What I can offer a host family is of course financial support in the rent, stroopwafels and especially typical cosiness in the house as we only know it in the Netherlands ;-P.
Actually what I'm looking for, ideally, is to become part of the family during this time.
I'm very curious to see what might come out of this and await with enthusiasm.
Yours faithfully,
Thomas
So you are looking for a middle-class family. These families are generally very traditional and I highly doubt that they would appreciate Dutch conviviality. They most likely do not need financial support. Because they are normally more wealthy than a Dutch middle class family.
If I were you I would rent a typical Thai room, rental price between 2500 and 4000 Baht. There you really live among the Thais. There are thousands available in the region you describe. There are even some in very cool, vibrant and very safe neighborhoods where you will most likely be one of the few Westerners.
Thomas
what is the problem, a thai always wants to be a guest, so to take someone in there is no money, and those who have money don't take anyone in, they don't know that, there.
what you can do is rent a condo in your neighborhood, there are many of them for 100 a month if you have one, then you are also among the population, and in the evening you can learn a lot on a terrace, drink a a few beers and you speak so Thai, and emigrating I will think very carefully about it, if I were you, a lot will change there when the king dies and that can happen at any time
good luck Jan
Well Thomas,
I live in Lak-Si, (bus 52 runs from here, to the university in 15 minutes) but I don't have the possibility to offer you overnight stays, our guest room is full of two nieces.
I find it difficult to find a “guest” family.
But if you have passed, it seems to me that it is even more difficult to find a job here in Thailand.
Thailand belongs to the Thai, and no one else, the King has decided that.
I'll ask the family, maybe they know something,
But still strength
Greetings Nico
Just live on your own; it's not expensive find an apartment nearby, you will make friends automatically
Good luck!
Hello Thomas, I have been living for 2 years in a Mansion at a 3,8 km walking distance from Kasetsart University, furnished with air conditioning 3700 bath plus electricity and water. I know the area well, have cycled and walked a lot. And no farang contact in the area, so really friendly Thai and Thai prices, but a large Thai family and frames. I occasionally see a farang jogging, cycling or shopping, apparently without any need for contact. Life is cheap unless you shop for farang food in the big Plaza and Centrals, but it's fun nonetheless.
There are many Mansion or condo to rent around 100 euros monthly terminable. I think it will be difficult to move in anywhere. I would check out couchsurfing.com ,hospitalityclub.org,www.hostelworld.com,9flats.com, craigslist.org, airbnb.com.
Do you want further contact [email protected]
http://www.renthub.in.th/en/apartment/kasetsart-university
http://www.asiaexchange.org/information/accommodation/accommodation-bangkok/
http://www.ddproperty.com/en/property-for-rent
regards
Live a 5-minute walk from the university, it would be best to rent an apartment in the area, the Thai do that too and through the Uni you could consider sharing it with a Thai. good luck and have fun, Cees
As most have indicated, what you call host family will be very difficult (=yaak). The more wealthy students (and there are 1000s of them at Kasert, which ranks 3 or 4 in the ranking of Thai Unis) usually live in a small aprtmt=condo called, which is many 1000s baht cheaper than here in NL. With a nice group of fellow students you are probably much more successful in your "goal", a word that does not even exist in Thai. And: most of the handsome looking lads of your left time have a girlfriend on the hook within a month.
Please note that Kasert is a very large campus area and partly other faculties outside it, which has now started extending the BTS=skytrain along the main site, the jams that were already there have now been increased by 10 times. Kasert is best known for good training in agriculture / livestock farming, so there is an enormous ditto show every year (around February) that attracts a huge number of visitors.
Thanks for the responses!
I was already afraid that this was going to be a difficult story. I had hoped someone might have a golden tip that I hadn't thought of until now.
Nico, thanks anyway for thinking along. If you hear anything from your family, I would of course be very happy to hear from you.
Just keep thinking/searching.
Actually, I had already started this semester last January. However, due to circumstances I had to travel back to the Netherlands. So next January we will go for the resit. Experience taught me then that as a group of internationals you draw a lot towards each other, which certainly does not promote learning Thai
Perhaps it is an idea to try this through a Rotary in that region. Rotary members are often interested in international contacts. They also have student exchange programs. The idea of taking in a student is therefore perhaps not as strange in those circles as it is with the average Thai.