When I was in college, I got a degree in Education. When I finished, I decided that I wanted to teach at an inner city school, but I was quite leery that my Spanish was not good enough for that. I decided that I was going to go back to school and study the language further and thought there would be no better place to do this than in South America.

I enrolled in Spanish School Antigua Guatemala and loved how I was totally immersed in the language. I had no choice but to learn it very quickly or drown trying. I chose to put my whole efforts into it and I did nothing but study the language from the time I got up to the time that I went to bed.

I am now a teacher at the inner city school that I wanted to be at, and I think that my experience in South America has given me a greater understanding for these kids that I am teaching. I have been immersed in their culture and I can only hope that I will make as big of a difference in their lives as their people made in mine.