Why stay at a hostel?

Thank you for the excellent submission of why a hostel is a great place to stay, to the host of the Painted Turtle Guesthouse (Nanaimo BC), Verena Lunke.

"A stay at a hostel is:

• the best cooking teacher (even better than grandmother): where else can you learn how to cook meals from "grandmothers" all over the world
• the best language teacher: Cheers! Prost! Sante! Salud! Na zdrowie! ....
• the best gaming teacher: from foosball to Monopoly to the strangest games you have ever seen
• the best teacher about people: wow, you meet so many different types of people
• the best teacher about the world: every person you meet, has a story about the world
• the best teacher about yourself: you know yourself at home, but being around the world is a different thing :-) "

Hostel of the week, March 29th to April 6th, 2009
submitted by Kennedy Jones
Backpackers Hostels Canada