HELP!!! Canadian Student in need of housing!

[starnowsky]

Hi all!

I am a 21 year old Canadian student and I have been accepted to study in Paris for a semester this coming September (2008). I am having a seriously hard time figuring out where i can find housing.

I would really prefer to be in an internation housing sort of place. There were a few I saw on the internet, but it seems to be quite difficult to find any real information. Does anyone have any information at all that can help me out!? Im starting to feel like im running out of time, and its freaking me out a little bit!

Thanks for any kind of help you can give!
Sean

[Jenny]

Does the place where you will be studying not have any information about places to rent? I would have thought they did. Who arranged this? Your college? If so, can they not help?

I have found a couple of sites that may help you:

http://www.location-etudiant.fr/

http://www.parisetudiant.com/etudes/seloger.php

Good luck in your search and let us know what you find as the information could be useful to someone else.

[seantarnowsky]

thanks for the info!

im the first one to go over to this school so we havent really gotten alot of information, and the bit we have pretty much tells me that i dont have the option of living on campus

its the INSEEC business school in paris.

anymore help at all would be GREATLY appreciated!

[seantarnowsky]

also, english websites would be the best, or english versions, as i basically speak zero french haha... it should be interesting.

It is the last sort of hurdle i have to find a place to live and im finding it to be the most difficult...thanks for any help.

[Jenny]

Go to Google.fr and look up "student rentals Paris" and there are plenty of results in English for you to look through. It must be quite worrying if you can't find somewhere, although I'm sure you will soon find what you are looking for. Studying or working abroad is a great experience and I'm sure living with students will make it even more fun!

Let us know how you get on.