About the Cultural Activity Program
We offer cultural activities opportunities at the EcoSpanish School as well as around the community.
The goal of our cultural activities is to integrate Spanish language practice while learning art, textile, cooking, horse back riding or enjoying a tour directly from our teachers, coordinator, local and native artisans or leaders. From this method We
provide hands-on experiential education while observing and learning social and cultural
aspects of Guatemalan life.
Sample day of a Cultural Activity:
- Cultural Activity will be after or before you spanish lesson. (Afternoon or morning)
- The pay it will be at the Eco Spanish School too. All supply will included in the workshop.
- Arrive at EcoSpanish, just a short walk away, or directly to the weaver coop, or depending the coordination.
- You will learne directly with artesan, weaver, artist, tour guide to create an art project using the materials found on site, or around town depending in the class coordination.
- if the cultural activity is helgin in a group, please be ontime for start.
- If the cultural activity is in a workshop, you will be able to take your project home.
- If is a coffee tour or any othe tour, please always have ready water, and shoes for hike.
- In case your work project is not dry, please let the artist know to help you for fast dry.
- if you like to give tip to the artist, weaver, leader, please do it!.
- Share a skill you possess with the teachers and students at school.
- Return to your homestay to eat lunch.
- Return to EcoSpanish for a few hours of Spanish class with one of our local teachers or
- Explore around San Juan, go for a hike to Cerro de la Cruz, learn how to weave a scarf or make
natural dyes from plants. - Enjoy the lake view, sunset, and sounds of birds in the tule (lake grass used to make straw
mats)
Return to your homestay for dinner and family time.
Most of cultural activities are extrapaid. The Eco Spanish School coordinator will anounce to studentes every monday the activities for the week.
List of cultural activities
On site at EcoSpanish:
- * These 3 activities are included in to the spanish classes prices. Each monday morning the school coordinator will anounce the schudele for the week.
- Artisanal Coffee processing tour
- Our Textiles
- Embroidery Classes by local artist.
Within the community or outside of San Juan:
- Traditional Cooking
- Weaving Class
- Hike the Mayan Nose
- Mayan Ceremony
- Traditional Music Class
- Civil War Speech by a local.
- Bone Healer, Soil Healer speech by a local.
- Midewives experiences, work with medicinal plants, herbs, teas, and plants, speech by a midewife.
- Artisanal Coffee processing Tour
- Embroidery Classes
- We are also able to co-ordinate diving ecperince with a local diver.
Time Commitment
If you are a not an Eco Spanish School student and would like to join our group in any of the cultural activity, feel free to email: ecospanishschool@gmail.com or a WhastsApp: +50247276481
To pay: it should in cash only at the Eco School office.
To complete your reservation, please email to ecospanishschool@gmail.com.
Also feel free to email us with other questions about cultural activities.