Open to students who have completed and feel comfortable with the Intermediate class or those who have had previous Spanish language instruction, this course may be taken multiple times. Course goals and instruction are based on the needs and interests of students enrolling. Class skips 2/15. Instructor Amy Ferlauto grew up in Santa Barbara, California, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, and has lived in midcoast Maine off and on since 1984. She has also lived in Mexico, Costa Rica, and the Czech Republic, and has travelled throughout Europe, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. She attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, and has a BA in Community Studies. She has worked at Camden Hills Regional High School as a Spanish Teacher since 2007 and is Board President of the Penobscot Bay Language School. During the 2015-2016 school year Amy took a leave of absence CHRHS to live in Barra de Navidad, Jalisco, Mexico, while her daughter, who is half Mexican, attended the local high school. While there Amy taught at the Cornerstone Idiomas language school giving Spanish lessons to foreigners living in Barra. Additionally, she gave English lessons to locals and ran “Todos Somos Americanos” (We Are All Americans)—a group for teenagers. Prior to teaching at CHRHS, Amy was a social worker, working with immigrant families and gang-affiliated youth in Santa Barbara and with homeless youth in Rockland. She is passionate about language learning, teaching, and introducing the world to her students.