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1. Me on November 23, 2009 3:21 pm

   The creme de la creme both in terms of learning and cost is Cirimex. The cost is approx. 700 US dollars a week with room and board in a local resident’s house. You get 6 hours of one on one training per day. You should do about 6 weeks or so.
   The one caution is that, while the winter is more relaxed, the summer gets very full of Catholic seminarians. The head of the school (Sr. Caridad) takes a very strict line with them, and everyone is likely to get caught up in it. Many people complain about being treated like a child. Even the daily schedule has been purposely structured to allow for the least amount of free time possible. Class is from 9-1 and from 4-6, so six hours of class takes up the whole day. It is not possible to remain at the school during the midday break. If you go somewhere for lunch too often, the mother of the family you are living with will take it as a personal insult.
   However, the program is good and far superior to any of the classroom settings. Most of the teachers are very flexible about what agenda you want to set, where you are, and where you want to go.
   There are field trips if you want to learn about the culture and if Sr. Caridad is in town she holds seminars about different cultural and religious themes on Monday night. Again, in winter the topics will be less religious because you would be one of the few there, but in summer they tend to get very Church centered because there are about 40 seminarians.

2. Don Plankton on November 23, 2009 3:29 pm

   don’t go to guadalajara, you may be kidnapped