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Sample Program: Three-week Winter Language and Recreation Institute
Overview
This exciting learning and recreational institute provides participants with an opportunity to improve their conversational English skills and enjoy some of the American West’s finest winter activities. The English language program is designed to improve listening and speaking skills. Classes will focus on understanding and using colloquial English and slang, U.S. culture, and the American West. Outside of class, participants will also have numerous opportunities to improve their English skills and their understanding of life in America. Institute participants will live with an American family for 14 days, interact intensively with program staff, spend time with other students at MSU, and do a brief presentation about themselves to a group of middle school students.
Institute participants will also enjoy four full days of skiing at two world-class ski resorts near Bozeman—Bridger Bowl and Moonlight Basin. Additionally, the institute will include an exciting two-day trip into the heart Yellowstone National Park. One of the world’s most beautiful and varied natural and geological landscapes, Yellowstone offers visitors exceptional opportunities to see deer, bison, elk, wolves, eagles, and even bears. Program participants will travel from West Yellowstone into the “Old Faithful” geyser basin in a snow coach, a tracked equipped to travel over snow and ice. Many people have described such full day, guided winter tours as the “experience of a lifetime.”
Per-student program costs for the institute are based on the number of participants. Typically, a three-week program will cost between US$2,500-$3,000 per person.
All of the following activities are included in the cost of the Winter Institute:
English Language Instruction
- 10 half-day English classes from an experienced ESL instructor
Skiing
- 3 days skiing at Bridger Bowl (includes liift passes, equipment rental, and one full-day lesson)
- 1 day skiing at Moonlight Basin (includes lift pass and equipment rental)
Accommodations
- 4 nights in a deluxe Bozeman hotel
- 15 nights in Bozeman with a homestay family
- 2 nights at the Stage Coach Inn, West Yellowstone, MT
Transportation
- All local transportation is provided
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Other Activities
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Costs NOT included in budget:
- Most meals (Please note: breakfast and dinner are provided during the homestay; various other meals also provided)
- Airline tickets
- Airport transfers or accommodations in stopover cities
- Health and other travelers insurance (all participants will be required to hold and show proof of insurance)
- Cost for escort from home country
- Personal expenses
3 Week Program |
| Day 1 |
Day 2 |
Day 3 |
Day 4 |
Day 5 |
Day 6 |
Day 7 |
Students arrive
Check into hotel
PM – Downtown tour and welcome dinner |
9AM – Program orientation and campus tour
12PM – Lunch
1PM – English Class |
9AM – English Class
12PM – Lunch
1PM – Pioneer Museum |
9AM – English Class
12PM – Lunch
PM – Shopping |
9AM – English Class
12PM – Lunch
1PM – Depart for West Yellowstone
PM – Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center; Shopping |
8:30AM – Snow coach trip into Yellowstone
12:30PM – Lunch at “old faithful” and geyser viewing
5:30PM – Arrive hotel |
9:30AM – Check out for return to Bozeman
12PM – Lunch
2PM – Homestay pickup |
| Day 8 |
Day 9 |
Day 10 |
Day 11 |
Day 12 |
Day 13 |
Day 14 |
| FREE DAY with homestay family |
9AM – English Class
12PM – Lunch
FREE AFTERNOON |
9AM – Bridger Bowl ski mountain
10AM – Ski Lesson
12:30PM – Lunch
4PM – Depart Bridger Bowl
5PM – Homestay pickup |
9AM – English Class
12PM – Lunch
3:30 PM – Museum of the Rockies
5PM Homestay pickup |
9AM – Bridger Bowl ski mountain
12:30PM – Lunch
4PM – Depart Bridger Bowl
5PM – Homestay pickup |
9AM – English Class
12PM – Lunch
FREE AFTERNOON |
FREE DAY with homestay family |
| Day 15 |
Day 16 |
Day 17 |
Day 18 |
Day 19 |
Day 20 |
Day 21 |
| FREE DAY with homestay family |
9AM – English Class
12PM – Lunch
FREE AFTERNOON
5PM – Homestay pickup |
9AM – Bridger Bowl ski mountain
10AM – Ski Lesson
12:30PM – Lunch
4PM – Depart Bridger Bowl
5PM – Homestay pickup |
9AM – English Class
12PM – Native American Lunch Presentation
FREE AFTERNOON
5PM – Homestay pickup |
9AM – Moonlight Basin ski mountain
10AM – Ski Lesson
12:30PM – Lunch
4PM – Depart Bridger Bowl
5PM – Homestay pickup |
9AM – English Class
12PM – Lunch
1:30 – School Presentations
5PM – Homestay pickup |
FREE DAY with homestay family
6PM – Farewell dinner and potluck party
Depart next day |
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