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  There are three lodging options for students at Casa Rosario:
  • Living with a local family: This is the best option for learning Spanish.
  • Living at the school: This is the best option for people on a limited budget.
  • Living in a hotel: This is the best option if you need a private bathroom. For this option you will have to make the arrangements yourself. The link connects to a section on the website of information and photos about different hotels in San Pedro.
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Living with a Mayan Family:
  • Cost: $130 week per person
  • Private room
  • 3 meals a day included (six days only)
  • 20 hours of classes (4 hours a day M-F)

 If you want to learn to speak Spanish, this is the best option. Classes at school with the student residing in the home of a Mayan family. The family provides the student three meals a day for 6 days. (Although it is not a hard and fast rule, Casa Rosario suggests that students who know no Spanish take a week of classes before they start living with a family.) The families are all chosen for their willingness to interact with the student and to provide a comfortable private room for the student. All rooms have electricity so a laptop computer can be used. Most Mayan families do not eat a lot of meat so it is very easy for them when requested to accommodate special diets such as vegetarian. Wonderful fresh fruits are available all year round. 

Living with a Mayan family is a wonderful experience. The rewards go beyond learning Spanish, and include learning a little about the Mayan culture and how they live. Undoubtedly the student will hear the family speak in the Tz'utuhil language, but they will also speak a lot of Spanish and help the student speak Spanish during ordinary daily interactions. The Spanish is used with the Mayan family will  reinforced what is being taught in Casa Rosario.  It quickens the learning process. One quickly overcomes the fear of speaking or making mistakes. The friendship between the family and the student usually long outlasts the time spent learning Spanish at Casa Rosario. 

Make sure you get a family you feel comfortable with. This will increase your learning potential as you will interact well together. Consider requesting a family with children. They can be very helpful in learning how to speak Spanish.

 
Living at Casa Rosario:
  • Cost: $90 a week per person
  • Shared Room
  • Kitchen access
  • 20 hours of classes (4 hours a day M-F)

 Classes, shared room (when there is space a private room or view room is also available), and kitchen access.  This is $15 a week more than the classes alone, a really good deal even by Guatemalan standards. Very few other Spanish language schools in Guatemala offer the option of living at the school.

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. Although the fourth level of Casa Rosario [pictured here and at the top] remains unfinished, a young couple convinced Samuel and Vicente to let them sleep here in the open among the Bouganvillea in their sleeping bags. The view of the lake from here is spectacular.
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Casa Rosario has two sites with rooms available to students. There are five rooms on the ground floor of Casa Rosario. Casa Rosario Dos, a five minute walk from Casa Rosario has as many more rooms and its own kitchen. The rooms are painted bright colors and each have two beds with comfortable mattresses. 
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