Homestay: family environment... & perhaps experience different culture if they are caucasians...
Hostel: Students all over, no day or night,... coz everyone's knocking on everyone's door regularly... and having fun! Not the quiet family environment, but really fun!
Off-campus & staying on your own with a few friends: gives you the freedom to select who you want to stay with, cheaper rent usually, as compared to the 2 above, and also very fun!
me going to Melbourne, semester starts in July.
