Highlights:
- AFS SVK is a small office with big heart
- We cherish personal relations with all students
- Fun orientations
- One of them at UNESCO heritage place
Enroll into your school program that lasts 10 months! The schools are carefully selected and often belong to the best gymnasiums in the country. Almost all of them have a long record of hosting AFS students and offer great off school activities, trips and plenty of occasion to learn this beautiful Slavic language and emerge into the history while visiting some of the UNESCO jewels and natural sceneries.
Additional information about housing: Students might be placed anywhere in Slovakia.
It is possible that students will be placed in an urban area but most host families live in smaller towns and villages. Family connections are very important in Slovakia and families usually live near by their relatives so students can expect to get together with extended family often. On the weekends families like to spend time together ranging from going to the movies, travelling, hiking, camping, attending local festivals, cultural events, visiting relatives, doing sports, gardening, etc. Some families in Slovakia own cottages in the countryside where they enjoy spending time gardening or even mushroom-hunting.
Host families in Slovakia, like all AFS host families worldwide, are volunteers and are not paid. They open their homes to students in order to share their community and culture as well as to enrich their own family lives.