Language stay in France in english with Bill in Toulouse

Immersion with Bill

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€ in total 92.86 €/day all included

YOU
It's all about you - everything is included!
What are your English Language Goals right now?
What results are you looking for now?
We can help with that! ... and your stay is tailored to your unique goals and how you learn!
Be in nature and experience peace, quietness, and beauty. Welcome!

Typical Day?:
April/May & September/October days will unfold a bit differently than the summer days of June/July and August. And please keep in mind your stay with us is uniquely tailored to you!
Breakfast around 9am
- 1.5 to 2 hours of "focused" learning
- garden care / animal care
Lunch around 1pm
- Seasonal pool, outdoor lawn and terrace activities/games & indoor activities/games.
- snack
- garden/animal care
Dinner around 7:30pm
- evening activities, dog walking, games, films, etc.

English Immersion on the Farm Activities
We welcome people to practice English, grow their confidence, and evoke deeper self-awareness in a safe, fun, respectful, immersive setting.

There are many activities we offer and engage with you to learn and grow. They are, but not limited to:

Fipsila Game and Book
Book: The Adventures of Fipsila
In 2012, we authored, published, distributed, and tested a book of 14 short stories and designed, manufactured, distributed, and tested our game specifically for you as an English Language Learner!
We authored this book of 14 short stories told through the eyes and perspective of our 2003 - 2006 Camping Car (called an RV or Motorhome in the USA and a Camper Van in England). The stories are about our life and experiences & the lives and experiences of others from around the world. Some are stories about those that rented our RV. We read this together to practice speaking, listening, writing, reading, and have discussions!

Game: The Fipsila Board Game
The Fun, Interactive, Educational, Story-telling Game
Practice English, Gain Confidence, and have Fun - World Cultures, Geography, Travel!
Practice vocabulary, grammar, phrasal verbs, phrases, speaking, listening, writing, reading, etc...
The Fipsila Game, this fun interactive educational storytelling game, is what we designed and manufactured in 2013. Discuss travel, world cultures, and geography. Grow English speaking and listening competencies.

More activities:
- Seasonal swimming pool
- Ping pong
- Foosball table
- Bike rides
- Petanque
- Croquet
- Nature Walks
- Horse Shoes
- Bean Bag Toss
- Ladder Toss
- Farm Fresh Food (what's at the farm? read on!) Meal Preparation (and Eating! Yum!)
- Seasonal Concerts
- Fitness equipment: Elliptical machine, recumbent stationary bike, & sit-up, backbend, and pushup machines. Free weights including dumbbells, bench press, and bar.
- Badminton
- Biking (mountain bikes, road bikes, and a 1954 Schwinn Tandem!)
- Baseball
- Golf (chip and putt)
- Assisting with cooking & preparing breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- Knitting, crocheting (Welcome to Catherine's world!)
- Picking seasonal vegetables and fruits, caring for the vegetable and fruit gardens, orchards, & greenhouse
- Caring for the dogs, horse, donkey, cat, chickens, & ducks
- Gathering the duck and chicken eggs
- Make your own Pizza & Burgers
- Seasonal Lake-Swimming
- Board Games: 10,000, Backgammon, Uno, Crack List. We have about 20 others. Which might you enjoy? Perhaps bring yours and teach us!!

More activities:
Animals & Pets on our five-hectare farm today-
- Cookie, our donkey, born 2004
- Athina, our Comtois horse, born 2009
- Maya, our Great Pyrenees dog, born 2015
NOTE: they all love you to pet, caress, brush, and massage them!
- Adrienne, our cat, born 2020, loves caressing!
- Chickens and ducks (they give us our eggs for your crepes!!)
- Five Bichon Maltais dogs. Sky, our male, and five females: Toula, Thalia, Ava, Anya. Perhaps they'll be little puppies when you are here?!

Meals:
Many of the foods we serve are farm fresh.
- Breakfast could be:
leftover crepes, pancakes, waffles, eggs, & homemade bread and jellies (mirabelle, assorted berries, etc), cereal, etc.
- Lunch and Dinner could be:
Burgers, pizza, pasta, chicken, duck, garden fruits & veggies, crepes, raclette, sausage.
- Desserts vary as well and are typically homemade:
Mirabelle tarts, Flan, etc...

What's on the land, in the garden, at the farm that we eat:
- an orchard of mature mirabelle, boysenberry trees
- blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, red berries
- watermelons, cantaloupe, fava beans, tomatoes, cauliflower, green beans, beets, lettuce, kale, squash, onions, garlic, artichokes, potatoes, sweet potatoes, zucchini, eggplant, hot peppers, salad, cucumbers, & butternut
- chicken, duck
- chicken eggs, duck eggs
- apple trees
- peach trees

YOU AND US
Each and every engagement ... each and every activity is an opportunity to learn!

Throughout each day, we engage with our guest learners, deciding together which activities you wish to focus on. What's most important for you to achieve is what is most important to us to do. We create a safe, trusting environment for you to engage, learn, and grow. Everything tailored to you!

You share with us the results you wish to achieve. Together, we gain agreement on how we will accomplish this for you. Then ... Let's Go! We take action to achieve that. At the end of each activity, each day, and your stay with us ... you share what you have been learning - a debrief. Finally, what will you continue to do once you leave to keep learning and growing your English Language?

Guests:
- We welcome a maximum of three youth from May 1 to November 1.
- We welcome a maximum of three young adults/adults from May 1 to November 1.
- We welcome weekly, multiple weeks, monthly, and multiple month stays. Guests typically arrive Sunday and leave Saturday. Let's talk more about your unique situation.
- We offer private bedrooms; shared bathroom; two shared WCs.
- For families, summer camps, and groups, we can accommodate six people maximum with shared bedrooms. Each bedroom has a queen or double bed and a single bed.

Our Backstory:
Our 1851 farmhouse on five hectares of land is located at Marliac, 65 kilometers south of Toulouse, 50 minutes north of Carcassonne. We purchased the 22-hectare farm in 2008, which was an "honest to goodness" working farm (horses, sheep and border collies, goats, a pig, cows, turkeys, chickens, cats, eating rabbits, dogs, birds, Angora Rabbits (for Catherine's yarn/home-made garments) including a 500m2 barn with 20 horse boxes. We cultivated the land and restored every room in our home on the ground floor and first floor. A four guest maximum gîte is on the property as well.

- Principal Residence 400m2 [originally the residence, cow barn, and animal feed storage]
- Covered guest terrace 100m2 [originally the tractor area]
- Two fire pits to enjoy year-round!
- Two outbuildings for the animals [Catherine built these]
(FYI: also on the property: Garage to store equipment, machinery is 100m2; Gîte is 100m2 with a 40m2 covered terrace - originally the chicken and pig areas)

Welcome to English Immersion at our Farm! - All-inclusive price!
Confidence! Self-Awareness! Fun!
We look forward to serving you, partnering with you, engaging with you!
Bill and Catherine

It's your space - Let's Go - Let's engage in English!

It's your space - Let's Go! - Let's engage in English!
Growing your English Confidence! Deepening your Self-Awareness! Having Fun (us too!)!
We are Bill 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 and Catherine 🇫🇷🇺🇸, a bilingual active couple, and your tailored stay at our farm home south of Toulouse where the majestic Pyrenees Mountains start to roll is all inclusive!

✅ Check out all the included sport & leisure activities we have to engage with you including the Fipsila Game and Fipsila Book of short stories activities. Airport / train station pick up / drop off is included. Tailored English sessions are also included. Bill as a certified ICF ACC professional coach offers career coaching. All this while being in nature experiencing peace, quietness, and beauty.

We welcome individual weekly and monthly guest stays with a three guest maximum while family, group, and summer camp stays are six guests maximum. Read on for more information!

US
Our purpose, since 1990, has been, is, and always will be to provide a space for people to ignite their growth through a variety of services. Since 2012 we have been offering English Immersion at our Farm. We partner with all ages ...
-Growing Guest / Learner / Student English Confidence
-Evoking deeper Learner self-awareness
-Having fun right along with our English Learners (children, adolescents, young adults, adults & families, summer camps, groups)

Our five children (not living at the farmhouse since 2012) are in the USA and Europe contributing to the well being of our planet. Since 2006, the seven of us have had dual USA / French Citizenship / Residency. We spend time here in France at our Farmhouse & with our family and friends at our home in the desert Southwest USA, Arizona.

Bill, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (grateful father, husband, brother, son, friend, colleague) has been facilitating the learning process as teacher, coach, mentor, and consultant with people ages five to seventy-five since 1987 in multiple countries including Belize, France, Guatemala, Italy, Peru, and the United States. He has been facilitating learning in Mathematics, Physical Education, English as a Second Language, TOEFL & TOSEL Exam prep, and Business, Career, & Leadership Development across all industries as Coach, Mentor, Consultant. Bill is a professional coach with the International Coaching Federation (ICF ACC).

Bill is an accomplished Triathlete (8 Ironman, and the Half Ironman, Olympic & Sprint Distances) and Runner (Multiple Marathons, Half Marathons,10Ks, 5Ks). Bill enjoys and is grateful for family, friends, travel, sport, farmland, and world cultures.

Catherine. Born and raised in Northern France, Catherine is the proud mother of five children, adored wife, sister, daughter, friend. She speaks English like a native as she’s been living in the USA since 1987.
Her early life in France was filled with farm animals, healthy eating, and spending quality time with her family. After her move to the USA in December 1987, she ran a day-care business and eventually earned her massage therapy license.

Catherine, registered with MSA in France, breeds Bichon Maltais 🐶. Her vegetable garden is 150m2. Her cooking has our guests asking, "What time is Lunch? Is it time to eat yet?". The English conversation around the table eating is made even better by the food served by Catherine.

Catherine enjoys her life in France at the farm and in the USA with her husband Bill and spending time with all her family. She is a lover of crocheting, knitting, weaving, bodybuilding, massage therapy, and living a healthy lifestyle.

She has been passionate about crocheting, knitting, and weaving since the age of four. You always see her with one of her projects in hand - at the farm, in the car, in front of the fire, or at the park. Her hands are constantly busy creating garments, blankets, essentially anything with yarn or fabric.

Welcome to English Immersion at our Farm 🌻!
All inclusive!
Confidence! Self-Awareness! Fun!
We look forward to serving you, partnering with you, engaging with you!
Bill and Catherine

It's your space - Let's Go - Let's engage in English!