Every three years, Principia offers a four-week language-
intensive program that gives students the opportunity to
complete language requirements in a Spanish-speaking country:
Guatemala. In addition to developing greater fluency in Spanish,
the program fosters cultural awareness and understanding.
Students stay in the historically preserved inland city of
Antigua, a picturesque destination filled with a rich mix of
indigenous cultures and European influences. Antigua is also
recognized as one of the most popular cities to study Spanish in
all of Latin America. While in Guatemala, students take a series
of day trips to destinations and events including coffee
plantations, volcanic ash beaches, a Mayan archeological site,
open markets, soccer games, a traditional music museum, and a
textile-weaving workshop. Even though students aren’t always
sitting in a traditional classroom, their Spanish lessons rarely
came to a halt. Tutors often took part in these excursions, both
to avoid losing class time and totake adv