What Is SIS?

All participants are accommodated with local host families. This home-stay is an integral and indispensable part of all SIS programs, offering students the opportunity to make life-long friends, reinforce the language skills acquired during daily lessons and to experience modern Italian culture from "the inside." Our carefully selected families, whether a single mother, a young married couple with children or an elderly widow, are all experienced in hosting American students. Our host families view this experience as a form of cultural exchange and are eager to share their version of Italian culture with program participants.