The new kids are put into classes and each class has about 2-6 people in it. My group had 3 all together, which was nice 'cause we got more attention. One guy was retired, from Quebec, Canada, and has been travelling for a while, then the other girl just graduated from UCSB with a masters and is from NorCal...way up there though, near Humboldt. Her boyfriend, who was in the class next door, and her dropped everything in the States and are travelling all South America for six months and planned on making BA a permanent home after they travel.
Classes are four hours, where we ONLY speak spanish, talk about ourselves/lives, do grammar out of the textbooks, and watch a cheesy Mexican soap opera and discuss everything they say. We get a break after two hours, and they rotate teachers everyday so that we don't get used to one persons accent or method of teaching.
After the first class we went to orientation, which I assumed would be about the school, the language, and meeting everyone.
It turned out to be an orientation on surviving BA....
First order of business: You will get robbed
Second: You will get ripped off
Third: You cannot wash your own clothes at the laundromat and they will mix them with other peoples
Fourth: Don't plan on eating dinner till 10pm or after and don't plan on going out till 1 am or after
Fifth: No one curbs there dogs so watch your step
Sixth: Pedestrians DO NOT have the right of way
YAY BA!
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