{"id":23,"date":"2015-06-22T13:15:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T18:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ellenschwartze.com\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2015-10-14T17:34:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T22:34:09","slug":"spanish","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ellenschwartze.com\/?page_id=23","title":{"rendered":"Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have\u00a0a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri, USA, and spent four months in Quito, Ecuador teaching English.<\/p>\n<p>In Kansas City, I joined the city&#8217;s first Spanish-language Meetup group, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/clarokc\" target=\"_blank\">ClaroKC<\/a>. I quickly moved into a leadership role, serving as <em>vicepresidenta<\/em> for several years. As a co-organizer of the group, I planned weekly meetings, connected with new members,\u00a0and was integral in bringing the first ever &#8220;immersion day&#8221; to fruition. During an immersion day, participants were only allowed to speak Spanish, providing an experience similar to traveling abroad. Participants completed\u00a0activities around the city, which required a lot of planning ahead of time to work with shop owners, restaurants and event spaces.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2015, I\u00a0supported the Honduran National Futbol team (FENAFUTH) while they were in Kansas City for the CONCACAF Gold Cup Tournament. This included translating for a range of\u00a0situations \u2014 from shopping with the head coach to accompanying a player to a medical appointment \u2014 as well as knowing the city and being a friendly ambassador on behalf of Major League Soccer.<\/p>\n<p>I am currently working toward a B2 certification at the Instituto Cervantes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have\u00a0a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri, USA, and spent four months in Quito, Ecuador teaching English. In Kansas City, I joined the city&#8217;s first Spanish-language Meetup group, ClaroKC. I quickly moved into a leadership role, serving as vicepresidenta for several years. As a co-organizer of the group, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenschwartze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenschwartze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenschwartze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenschwartze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenschwartze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenschwartze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenschwartze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenschwartze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}