mandatory service (50 hours)

B.U.L.L.S.H.I.T. pardon my language. the spanish department designs the whole progam for us here. on top of this new idea of an intership, which i think is a good opportunity and will look great on a resume. and it gives us something to do. it's awesome that it's in our field (major). we need 100 hours total for this. 85 hours in the field and 15 in meetings with a profesora. now ON TOP of this. we are being REQUIRED to do 50 hours of volunteering (service). going into this, we knew about the internship, HOWEVER, not one person had ANY idea about this MANDATORY service we have to do here. it was totally SPRUNG on us during orientation the other day. the least they could have done is respect us and provide us with this information before we agree to the program, at least before we leave the country. several emails have been written and sent but we're waiting to hear back from Gene when she receives the information.