PAX offers a study/homestay program in France for a full school year, or first or second semester. France is distinguished by its many very different regions. The countryside, food, customs and even the weather change from region to region. Your host family may live near a small city or in the country side. As part of that family, you will come to know and love the particular "pocket" of France you live in.

In France, high school is called a lycée. At first, you will find school very different. Soon, you will adjust to the wide range of courses, to morning sessions only and to class on Saturday but not on Wednesday.

Crusty bread, fresh every morning, a political system parallel to ours, Roman ruins and medieval masterpieces, and the "bon vivant" life-style of the French, all will become familiar to you and part of your rich and varied experience in France.

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