If you travel to Paris... here are a few cool places you'll find off the beaten path:

* Le Parc Monceau- mcdst Great English-style park (Metro: Monceau, 8th arrondissement).
* Musée Marmottan: It used to be a house and is now filled with Monet's paintings (Metro: Muette 70-432 braindump, 16th arrondissement).
* Musee Rodin (Metro: Varennes, 17th arrondissement).
* Chez Chartier: Cheap, historic restaurant in the 9th arrondissement.
* Arenes de 70-505 braindump Lutece: Ruins of a Roman style arena dating from the Roman occupation of Gaul (5th Arrondissement).
* Basilica of Saint Denis: The 70-528 latest dumps burial site of almost all the French monarchs since the 6th century (Metro: Basilique de St-Denis, northern suburb of Paris).

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While living in Spain I hopped around enough so that I got to have and see a bunch of different living experiences. All had their advantages and their disadvantages and were equally fun.
In Sevilla I stayed with a host family for 4 months. They were wonderful to me and treated me as a part of the family. I had the best damn food I could have possibly eaten (way better than restaurants), constant language practice and on top of everything, a home.
A German friend from the university had chosen to rent a flat with two spanish students. In that situation he was able to improve both his knowledge of the language and culture while really becoming friends with locals. The downside was that they knew he spoke english so they made him speak that a lot more than he would have liked.
Also while I was there I became friends with a bunch of international students who had chosen to live in the residence houses. They had tons of fun but ate fast food for dinner and rarely spoke spanish, mostly english. However, when I got to Salamanca I too chose to live with other students. That was great because I became very close with a dutch girl and an english girl with whom I watched spanish movies and went out for dinner and drinks all the time. We spoke mostly in english, but I got my fair share of Spanish at school.
After seeing and experiencing all these arrangements I would have to say that you need to choose what is most important to you: language? fun? meeting different nationalities?
But whatever choice you make count on a great time!

While studying abroad in China, I was housed in the International Students' dorm, which was both a blessing and a curse. Unlike the regular dorms, buildings were co-ed, we had running water 24/7 (as opposed to just at night), and we had in-suite bathrooms. Having amenities was great - lack of hot water would have been a big problem - but living with international students meant that I didn't have cause to practice my language skills as often. There were other English speaking students around, putting the onus of practicing my language skills on me. This is the major downfall of being housed with other international students/Smericans/anyone not speaking the native language.

I'm glad to hear your Homestay was worth it. If I were to do it all again, I'd definitely look into it.