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We began language school a few days after our arrival, in part because students are motivated to speak with their families who speak only Spanish.   Classes are from 8:00am  until noon and for the most part, the ratio of instructor to student is 1:3.  Students receive a significant University language credit.
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Daily schedule

Sunday Jan. 23rd -- Sunday April 6

 

Sunday Jan. 23        Late breakfast/ 3:00ish, students international opens/ 5:00 supper/ 7:00 Worship.
Monday Jan. 24 8:00 language classes/ free afternoon/ 5:00 Mentoring.
Tuesday Jan. 25 8:00 language classes/ 2:00 small groups/ 5:00 Mentoring.
Wed. Jan. 26     8:00 Worship/ 9:00 language classes/ 2:30 Visit Casse Santo Domingo/ 5:00 Mentoring.    Thursday Jan. 27 8:00 language classes/ 2:00 -5:00 Service./ 5:00 mentoring
Friday Jan. 28        8:00 language classes/ free afternoon/ 1:30 - 2:30 Mentoring
Saturday Jan. 29 Free day

Sunday Jan. 30        Late breakfast/ 3:00ish, students international opens/ 5:00 supper/ 7:00 Worship.
Monday Jan. 31 8:00 language classes/ free afternoon/ 5:00 Mentoring.
Tuesday Feb.1   8:00 language classes/ 2:00 small groups/ 5:00 Mentoring.
Wednesday Feb. 2 8:00 Worship/ 9:00 language classes/ 2:30 APPE Cultural event/ 5:00 Mentoring.
Thursday Feb. 3 8:00 language classes/ 2:00 -5:00 Service./ 5:00 mentoring.
Friday Feb. 4        8:00 language classes/ free afternoon/ 1:30 - 2:30 Mentoring
Saturday Feb. 5 Fabulous Lake Atitlan weekend! Leave San Juan Square at 7:30 a.m.
Sunday Feb. 6       Visit famous craft market at Chi Chi. Return 7:00ish ( Arrange for late supper at your home)

Monday Feb. 7       All right, back to work! 

There are a variety of service opportunities in the language study portion of our time in Guatemala... community construction projects, prison sports ministry, teaching English, & working in a regional Hospice with children and seniors.
While it does not perhaps look intense on paper, it is incredibly tiring to live in an environment where basic communication, hour after hour, day after day is a word by word sentence by (sort of) sentence struggle.

The City of Antigua is spectacular for its Ruins.
Approximately 450 years old, and once the capital city overseeing much of Mexico and all of Central America, Antigua was pretty much destroyed and abandoned in 1773 by a series of massive earthquakes. Over 20 religious orders called this city their headquarters...with 70 or so churches and cathedrals. Many of them lie in various states of "disassembly".  Some have been rebuilt beautifully with active congregations.

 

Below are a few portraits in one such Ruin.

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Below, The church (attached to the monastery shown above) was rebuilt.

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Hermano Pedro buried above (inside the Church) has become a very famous local religious figure to whom many people pray for miracles.  The plaques on the wall are testimonies to the miracles attributed to him.

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And finally, we leave you with a little treat entitled "how to tell when your ass is too small."
It was not photographed in Guatemala, has nothing at all to do with our program but was sent to us by a Canadian missionary and therefore we knew it was appropriate for a web site like ours. Click Here.