About El Quijote

The owners, Nicolle Skalski and Maria Dolores Saucedo, initiated El Quijote to provide people of all ages with the opportunity to study the Spanish language in Guanajuato within its true cultural context for a positive, educational and mind-opening experience. They believe that through study abroad programs, students not only learn a language, but experience the culture and customs of other countries. They acquire the language by living it.


Nicolle and Dolores, having been study abroad students and directors themselves, understand and accomodate the needs of each individual starting from the initial contact with El Quijote. Upon arrival to a foreign country, it is natural that a student may experience some stress, uneasiness or anxiety associated with assimilating into a foreign country's environment. El Quijote understands these feelings and helps their students to make the most of their study abroad experience by having their students leave logistical arrangements and housing matters up to them.



El Quijote wants students to spend their time concentrating on their language studies and enjoying their study abroad experience. This is why the programs are all inclusive (except round trip airfare).


NICOLLE SKALSKI

Nicolle is a 1990 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Journalism School graduate who spent her first three years out of college working for a Washington, D.C.-based public relations firm. In 1994, following her lifelong dream to study Spanish abroad, she came to Guanajuato, Mexico to study for six months. Those six months turned into six years. Nicolle has established herself in Mexico with her husband and two sons as an English teacher, translator and study abroad director. She now launches her own study abroad program, El Quijote.

MARIA DOLORES SAUCEDO

Dolores was driven to co-initiate El Quijote by having worked as the Mexico director for an international study abroad company for more than five years, which included assisting in the design of a study abroad program for the National Hispanic Institute. She was also motivated by having lived abroad herself working as the director of a Spanish House at an American university for one academic year. Dolores has recently earned her degree in civil engineering from the University of Guanajuato.



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