1/2/2011
Change is going to come – Sam Cooke
GENERAL
The Spanish are so laid back, which is brilliant until you need to obtain information or paperwork. We arrived early in order to be prepared for the college and I have some basic Spanish. I have a smattering of Spanish, but the others have none. I spend weeks calling into different offices to try and get Spanish lessons. I even put out adverts in Spanish to no avail. This pattern repeats itself in all aspects of obtaining college passwords opening bank accounts, ordering internet, very frustrating. There is also a big problem to get some idea of what course content we can have, the communication and reality of what we want to do are vastly different, this also leads us into problems with our own college, who will not pay us our grant without the modules being sent to them, We keep going round in circles. I owned a property in Spain some years ago, so I know how it is here, but the lack of structure has taken away the balance I need in my life in order to feel I can make the most of this experience.
COLLEGE
This is now taking everything to low ebb. Not only are we totally depressed after the latest changes to our modules, creative?, I don’t think so, Film comedy (silent films), History of Design, intermediate Spanish, I have some Spanish and feel lost, and the others are bewildered. The tutors are honest enough to say they are monitored and being pressured enough without taking on problems like us. We volunteer to help with their festival and are still waiting to know what we are to do. I personally think we have all been going at this all wrong, Spain is frustrating and the patience has run out and with it the enthusiasm.
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