I am Jorge W
Suazo Jaque
and I was born in San Carlos, Province of Ñuble,
Chile. San Carlos is a small town located in central Chile and it is about
3:30 hours south of Santiago. It has a population
of about 50,000 people.
I completed all my Elementary School
in Escuela Particular No.
5 "Francisco Henríquez [Now
Liceo
Ntra. Sra. de la Merded]) and Escuela No. 3 (now
Escuela
E-139 Gral. Domingo Urrutia) and my High School
in Escuela Consolidada de Experimentación [now
Liceo Politécnico
Ignacio Carrera Pinto] in San Carlos. After graduation from high
school, I attended Universidad de Chile-Sede
Ñuble [now Universidad del
Bío-Bío] in Chillán, Chile. I graduated with a
B.A.
in English Education from the Department of Modern Languages in 1979.
I came to the United States invited by the
Amity
Institute (of San Diego, California) in 1980. As an Amity
Scholar, I team-taught Spanish at several high schools and a college in
West Virginia, Wisconsin and Virginia. My first assignment was with
Parkersburg
High School and
Parkersburg South
High School, in Parkersburg, West Virginia for Fall and Winter Quarters
(1980-81). My next assignment took me to
Memorial
High School, (Spring '80) in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. I returned to Chile
at the end of my assignment with these three schools. After a few months
in Chile, I re-applied to Amity Institute, and this time, I was assigned to
Virginia
Union University, in Richmond, Virginia.
Later, I completed my Master of Arts degree in Modern Languages
from the Department of Modern Languages,
Ohio University,
Athens, Ohio. Last, I graduated with a Ph.D. in
Early Modern Literature [Golden Age] from the
Department
of Spanish and Portuguese,
The
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
Presently, I am a Professor of
Spanish
in the Department of Foreign
Languages at
Georgia Southern University
in Statesboro,
Georgia.
(see also: Georgia
[tourism])
