Student Life
Living in Community is one of the most
rewarding parts of your six months in Guatemala and one of the most challenging.
Students live on a two acre campus sharing dorm rooms (cabins with bunks)
with 4or 5 teammates. This small group community living setting is ideal for making
deep friendships and for discovering what you are made
of. Teamwork is emphasized and students learn to put
into practice what God is teaching them in their everyday lives. You will eat together,
worship together, do chores together, minister togther and have all sorts of fun hanging
out and being ... well... students.
Breakfast is between 7 and 7:45, we meet together at 8:00 for devotions
and then first class is 8:30 - 10:30. When you are taking Spanish, the class is in the
afternoon between 1:30 and 5:30. Evenings are free except for Tuesday when we meet for
Relationship Class (informal discussion). You can take the 15 minute bus ride into Antigua
to visit some of the many cafes in your free time. You have access to computers and the
internet. When we have guest professors the schedule for
classes is much more intense. We also have other ministry groups stay at the campus from
time to time giving you an opportunity to meet other students and missionaries.
Students
also live in Guatemalan homes for 5 weeks in our community of
San Pedro. This allows them to practice their Spanish and to learn first hand about the
culture. The Guatemalans are very warm people and adopt our students as their own. This
also gives students an opportunity to consider the cultural differences and to do
“field work” research for papers in Anthropology.
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