Destinations
To find out more about the destinations we offer:
Australia: Summer "Summer Adventures in Australia"
France: Summer "Languange Adventure in France"
France: Academic "School Year in France"
Germany: Academic "School Year in Germany"
Spain: Summer "Language Adventure in Spain"
Spain: Academic "School Year in Spain"
Summer Adventure in Australia
The land down under has a relaxed life-style that revolves around the outdoors. Welcomed to the world’s largest island and smallest continent with a hearty “G’day,” PAX Summer Adventurers enjoy a three week homestay in Sydney followed by an 8 day excursion to Far North Queensland, site of some of the world’s most spectacular natural wonders.
Homestay in Sydney
Australia’s beautiful capital of Sydney bursts with vitality. Share everyday life with your host family members and make lifelong friends. You’ll also join other Adventurers for excursions to points of interest in Sydney. A harbor boat ride, mountain hike or aquarium visit, shopping arcade or opera hall, any of these and more will be part of your escorted excursions.
Adventure in Far North Queensland
Your group then travels north by air to Far North Queensland for the outdoor adventure portion of the trip. Spend a day snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef , visit the Daintree River and rain forest, stay in a Cairns resort hotel, ride a steam train to Kuranda, see crocodiles and aboriginal theatre, take nature walks with rangers. Experience the wilderness and beauty of this famous region.
Language Adventure in France
During this three week adventure, you will learn French with a group of international students while living with a host family in the French Riviera. The formal language study is designed to complement high school level French while immersing you in the French language and culture. During the first two weeks, you will take language classes with an experienced teacher for four mornings a week and during each afternoon and for one full day you will enjoy activities and cultural excursions to Biarritz, Saint Jean de Luz and Bayonne. You will have the opportunity to participate in activities such as golf, beach volleyball, surfing, basque pelota, body-boarding and high ropes. During the third week you will spend time with your host family or pursue a special interest.
School Year in France
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 lycee. 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.
School Year in Germany
Whether for a school year or semester, you are welcomed as a family member, not a guest, in your German host family. Based on your personal application, the information you provide about your history, interests and future plans, you will be placed with a German family just right for you. You may find yourself in a rural family, with several children and many outdoor activities or placed in a busy city suburb with parents of grown children. Your family will be right for you.
You'll be a fully enrolled student in a "gymnasium" or German high school. Sitting alongside German students, doing homework, writing papers, learning as they learn, you will gradually feel part of your new school. You'll make friends at school, share recreational activities and free time with your new German friends.
Language Adventure in Spain
Language Adventure in Spain is a three week program in the beautiful and historic city of Cadiz on the coast in southernmost Spain. The course is designed to complement a student's level of Spanish while at the same time providing immersion in the Spanish culture by sharing daily life with a host family.
Language instruction is active and participatory. Students practice in real life situations, in the market, a cafe, on the streets, at home. Teachers are university trained and specialists in their field.
There is a complete program of sports and social activities, guided travel to local museums, palaces and exhibits, and a visit to a flamenco concert. In addition, chaperoned excursions are offered. Destinations include Sevilla and Tarifa. Students spend two days in Madrid before returning home.
Joining students of different nationalities, American students will have an international as well as a Spanish experience in a relaxed and festive atmosphere.
School Year in Spain
The home of the Spanish language is your home for a semester or year when you choose to live and study in Spain. The student welcomed by a host family in or near Bilbao will be immersed in two cultures, both Spanish and Basque. This is the region of some of Spain's most spectacular coastal scenery and the site of Frank Gehry's stupendous new Guggenheim Bilbao Museum.
In Spain you will be supported and encouraged by your host family, a warm and loving Spanish family chosen just for you. Perfect your Spanish during daily high school classes at your "colegio" and share charming holiday traditions with your host family and "amigos".
