Spanish Cafe Arequipa: 2010

martes, 21 de septiembre de 2010

Full packages

We offer complete packages as:

Spanish classes 2or 4 hours a week
Accommodation
Cultural activities 2 a week with teacher

more information please contact: spanishcafeaqp@yahoo.com

websites: www.aitraveltours.com/spanishcafe

Spanish Cafe Arequipa in Casa de los Pinguinos

Casa de Los Pinguinos is our host hotel.

The address is:

Avenida Parra 110

Only 7 blocks walking from the main square

cultural activities

Cooking class Rocoto Relleno

Bartender

Folklore dance Salsa workshop

Our teachers Spanish

Carmen ( spanish teacher) Laura ( spanish teacher) Marco ( spanish teacher)

Onno ( spanish teacher) Saskia (dutch,engl, spanish teacher) Edith ( Spanish teacher)

Looking back Spanish Café Arequipa

A long long time ago, we started our Spanish Cafe Arequipa in our own café in Arequipa. Maybe even one of the first of Arequipa. Yes we had a real bar-café in the centre of Arequipa. It was 7 years ago. I have good memories of it, with Milly, Renzo, Marco, Ceci, Jenny, Nathalie, David and all the students passing by living, studying all together. We had fun, laughed loads, teachers, students, coordinators and actually, after seven years - believe it or not - we still have some of the same teachers, others continued on solo. We also have a group of new teachers. Our teachers were and are all freelance young enthusiastic Peruvians, no, Arequipeños!

We never really stopped to teach Spanish to foreigners, but advertisement on the web, well.. that did stop for a while, just too much moving from one location to the other. But finally we now have a permanent place to stay. For already 2 years in a row we are now permanent in CASA DE LOS PINGUINOS en avenida Parra 110 and as well as a bungalow we even have the garden and hammacks to our disposal.

We now do not only offer Spanish classes to foreigners but also English and even Dutch classes to Peruvians. We teach the same way, with grammar combined with conversational Spanish, focused

on the student.

Come and check us out.

2011 welcome

Classes start the second week of January.

We have the following New Years activities

monday classes grammar 1 hour - break 10 min
classes conversation and computer 1 hour
9.00 / 11.00 am
11 to 12 visit market buying food
12 to 1 cooking class
1 to 3 lunch prepared and served

tuesday classes 9 to 11 am ( same)
2 to 5 bustour country side
afterwards
have a drink or get to know the plaza de armas

wednesday classes 9 to 11 am ( same)
beverages and drink theme
bartender activity

COMMENTS

Hi Saskia,  I wanted to let you know that I just posted something about your school on Trip Advisor.  I think that you have a great thing going in Arequipa and I assume that many other people would love to do one of your activities if they knew about it.  http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g294313-i6198-k4283952-Spanish_language_school_and_alternative_tours-Arequipa.html  It was so much fun hanging out at your school and doing some of the activities.  It was a great way to increase my Spanish abilities.  And it was so much fun to meet you and your kids; they are adorable.  Say hi to Elard and Laura for me.

COMMENTS STUDENTS

COMMENT 1 J July 2010 MARIJKE ( Holanda)

I went to Peru to travel for one month. My ‘travel-guru-friend’ Marjan, who travelled a lot in South-America, recommended me the language-school ‘Spanish Café Arequipa’ (I find it important to know personal experiences of people, because anything can be put on the internet, but need not be true…). Anyway, I sent an email to Saskia and already within a few hours I received information about the school, a place to stay and the best way to travel to Arequipa. So I booked the school for one week and a place to stay for two weeks (in fact I stayed at her home, which was very nice!). I had private lessons, four hours a day: two hours grammar from Marco and two hours conversation from Onno. Both the teachers were very good (and patient) and I learned a lot. The school is situated in a bungalow in the garden of Casa los Pingüínos, a nice and clean hostal in the centre of Arequipa. Saskia gave me a lot of information of the places to visit. She arranged among other things two wonderful excursions for me: a two-days trip to the Cañon del Colca and a three-days trip to Puno and Lago Titikaka, where I stayed one night at the house of the local people. One of the best experiences of my holiday! Marijke Haasdijk ( the Netherlands)

COMMENT 2 sept/oct 2010 Annie Mc Smith ( USA)

My experience with Spanish Cafe Arequipa Casa de Los Pingüínos was absolutely super! My spanish is so much better I feel confident and good thanks to my professor Onno that worked with me for 2 months. I truly had a experience of a lifetime and so thankful I stayed with my boyfriend's family's home and got to take spanish lessons in Pingüínos. I knew about Spanish Arequipa from my boyfriend Cesar and his friend and Cesar told me about the school because Cesar knew Saskia. Saskia is a wonderful outgoing director for the school and I was so happy how all of this came together! I thought it was such a great idea to have grammar lessons with Onno and then Onno and I would walk into the city of Arequipa and talk in conversation and see different parts of Arequipa at the same time. I really enjoyed it, also Arequipa (cuidad blanca). Casa de Los Pingüínos is a friendly, cute little hotel for tourists very warm and cozy (acogedor: en espanol) :) I would highly recommend learning spanish in an immersed latino city, that city is Arequipa Peru at Casa de Los Pingüínos where you can have a super awesome staff of wonderful spanish teachers who are flexible and ready to work with you at your need!