Follow Up
We hope that this immersion experience will touch your heart and that
the connections you make with the Chilean people will last a lifetime.
Maryknoll Lay Missioners offer opportunities for followfollow-up reflection,
continued growth and action in global solidarity – and for spiritual
discernment and discovery of God’s call to mission and service.
Make sure your
passport is valid
through January
2016!
Logistics and Costs
Total: $ 1,850 (ground cost plus registration fee).
Program fees cover all lodging and meals, all
transportation within the country, EnglishEnglish-Spanish
speaking teacher and guide, Spanish classes,
cultural activities, and tourist fees.
Sign Up Now
Deadline: May 8, 2015
Roundtrip airfare is
not included. Airfare
cost from Miami is
approximately
$ 1,000.
Contact Us Today!
To make a reservation, please request a
Cecilia Espinoza, Maryknoll Lay Missioner
Friends Across Borders Manager
P.O. Box 307
Maryknoll, NY 10545-0307
Submit it to Friends Across Borders with a copy
of your passport and your $200 deposit.
Phone: 914-236-3474
Fax: 914-762-7362
[email protected]
http://www.friendsacrossborders.org/
registration form by e-mailing or calling (see
contact information on back cover).
We look forward to welcoming you to Chile!
Friends Across Borders is a program of
Maryknoll Lay Missioners.
CHILE
Rural Immersion and
Intensive Spanish
Program
July 9 – 25, 2015
Experiential Education
Our main focus is to meet and make friends with the Chilean people and
learn about their language, culture and faith. It is important that you come
with a desire to better your language skills, to be responsible with the
schedule of classes and activities planned. And to have an openness to
experience, learn and respect another culture.
Preparation
M
Prior to leaving Friends
Across Borders will provide
an orientation which will
include a detailed
presentation about the
program and cross-cultural
education and important
cultural norms to follow
during the experience.
aryknoll Lay Missioners provides an
intensive Program of Spanish language and
Chilean idioms through classroom work,
practical and cultural experiences to
increase knowledge of terminology,
vocabulary and cultural differences in
communication.
They will introduce you to Chilean rural life,
Despite the beautiful and richness of the
What We Will Do There
The trip will focus on the following
activities:
1. Have classes at a beautiful Retreat House
in Talca City, Region del Maule.
2. Visit Nirivilo, a small historical farming
village that was devastated by the
February 2010 earthquake.
3. Visit a local artist and wood sculptor,
Alejandro de Nirivilo.
land, poverty and joblessness afflict many
4. Learn about Indigenous weaving.
urban areas and are endemic in the
history and culture through presentations,
countryside; among the most heavily affected
both academic and artistic, tours to
are Chile’s million plus indigenous people, of
5. Learn about Traditional and Organic Wine
Making in Curepto, another historical
town.
different areas of interest and a living
whom the Mapuche are the largest group.
6. Visit Iloca and enjoy the blue Pacific.
experience with a Chilean rural family to
strengthen your cross-cultural competencies
and language.
The snow-capped Andes Mountains and
the Pacific Ocean border this narrow, 5,000
Expand
Your
Horizons!
Environmental problems
abound: among them are
pesticide poisoning in
agricultural areas, polluted
rivers, the rapid spread of
km.-long country. Wherever you are in Chile,
erosion and the yearly encroachment of the
mountains or sea: both are close by and
northern desert on the country’s central
offer beautiful landscapes.
region.
7. Learn about Legends, Music and Dances
of Chile.
8. Live with families from the Parish Nuestra
Señora Del Rosario in Curepto. Practice
your Spanish and learn
about rural Chilean life.
9. Enjoy traditional food,
soccer games, hiking and
many other fun activities.
Deepen
Your
Faith!