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Introduction: Panajachel Colegio Internacional, more commonly known as PCI, is a common core, non-profit United States based school, located in Panajachel Guatemala. It was founded in 2009 and has slowly been progressing over the years. It is a bilingual (English and Spanish) speaking school, comprised of a mostly indigenous student body; it also provides a variety of interesting classes and a unique cultural experience. Each student has their own individual background which brings an exceptional ambiance to this small-scale school.

Athletics: Panajachel Colegio Internacional has had an athletic team since 2009 that has won many athletic events. PCI has won 25 gold medals in state level tournament swimming, two first place trophies in state level basketball, one first place trophy in state level soccer. PCI has had one student go to the Youth Olympics,and five students who have competed on national level, in swimming, soccer, and biking.

Theater: Theater in Panajachel Colegio Internacional has been practiced since the year 2014. PCI believes that theater is important because it helps students learn the arts of acting and performing. This helps them learn to be brave by expressing themselves, and to confront the fears of being scared of performing on stage, especially if someone in this school wants to fallow a career of arts. Every year in December for Christmas we do a play. Students enjoy being part of the play and if they don’t to be on stage they are welcome to participate on backstage to help get things organized. Students must do an audition for the main roles. We have performed about 4 plays at the moment. David McKenzie was our director for several plays; he has a degree in theater and he has taught other students for a couple of years, he comes up with the main ideas of the play each year and of course helps the students prepare, practice, learn and to pull off a good play. Students who help backstage can work on costumes, light and props. The plays are performed inside the school in the basketball court. Our main idea is to make the play funny and bring joy to the audience we also, do dance numbers. The plays that we make are basically fundraisers for our school trips. Theater in PCI is important. The first play P.C.I ever preformed was in 2014, and the director was David MacKenzie. The play was a mix of Jack and The Bean Stalk and Cinderella. They blended the two storys into PCIand added a couple of unique things such as jokes, dances and more roles to be played. Our director was David MacKenzie. In 2015 PCI performed a play that was written by Shakespeare, "A Midwinter-Night´s Dream" but of course PCI changed the name, added a couple of puns and scenes to make it unique,the director was David MacKenzie.