CANADA INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM

The Canada International Program is a two month long incredible experience for our Year 9 students.  This Canadian cultural immersion program occurs at the beginning of the school year, in which students spend a brief period of time in Vancouver to experience all that this beautiful city has to offer, especially in terms of getting in touch with Canadian multiculturalism.  After this stop in Vancouver, students proceed to Victoria, British Columbia’s capital, with the Stance Dual Team.  They are welcomed by their homestay families and divided into different Canadian middle schools around the city. Their school routine includes both traditional and exploratory subjects, like woodworking, fine arts, home economics, amongst others. Stance Dual, together with Victoria International High School Program, also provides the students with bi-weekly meetings for group activities including a hockey game; tour of nearby towns; the chance to learn typical Canadian sports, such as curling and ice skating; and the always highly anticipated trip to Mount Washington to play in the snow and go snow tubing.  These two months are full of amazing experiences, in which students learn how to live in another culture and adapt to a different reality, all the while mobilizing their already firm foundation in the English language that they’ve gained at Stance!