Chantal Esquivias
Spanish

I was born in the beautiful city of Barcelona (Spain) but only lived there for three weeks! Then my family moved to Venezuela in South America where I lived until I was eleven years old. I have an older brother who was born in Peru, and a younger sister who was born in Venezuela, my mom used to say that her three children were like the United Nations.

Upon my family’s return to Spain, we lived in a nice little town in the south east called Alicante where I studied trough the seventh grade. We then relocated the family to the capital of Spain, Madrid, in the center of the Iberian Peninsula. I studied high school in Madrid except for my senior year where I went to Houston, Texas on an educational exchange program. It was a great experience!

I studied my college undergrad in Madrid, History and Geography at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. In my fourth year of undergraduate studies, I received a scholarship and got to spend a whole year in St. Andrews, Scotland, where Golf was invented! I then returned to Madrid and finish my fifth year of studies.

In 1994 I got another scholarship to study for a year at Tufts University in Boston, that is how I started my graduate studies in Archaeology and Museum Studies. I so loved New England, I decided to stay and finish my PhD in Archaeology at Boston University. I carried out all my field work for my dissertation mainly in Belize and in Mexico taking a great to escape from the winters in New England to go to the tropical Central America.

When I finished graduate school I returned to Spain, got married and had two beautiful children.

My husband and I have taught for a long time and we truly enjoy teaching. Teaching opportunity and experience is one of the main reasons why we are trying to offer our own children a new experience in their young lives and was a major part in why we decided to come to Utah.

My husband and I have taught for a long time and we truly enjoy teaching. Teaching opportunity and experience is one of the main reasons why we are trying to offer our own children a new experience in their young lives and was a major part in why we decided to come to Utah.