Actually, that is not true at all. I was expecting to be working at least 2, if not 3, full days a week, since my program is an internship program. But that is not the case. My internship is at the Fundacion de Derechos Civiles, better known to you non-hispanohablantes as the Civil Rights Foundation. I am not able to go into work until 4:00 because they do not have any offices or computers open until then. I then stay until 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, really whenever I want, because they don´t really seem to care. It is very weird. They said I only have to work on days that I don´t have class, but since class ends at 1:00 I will certainly be coming in more than 2 days a week. They also told me I don´t ever have to work on Fridays since I will surely be traveling! I am enjoying the flexibility though, since I can go to el entierro de la sardina (more on that later) tomorrow and London on Thursday and not have to worry about work.
My project is basically to write a report on immigration laws, statistics and trends in the US and Western Europe. So I sit in front of a computer and look at websites. Not as exciting as I had hoped. When I heard Civil Rights Foundation I thought I would be doing some hands-on, hard-hitting work. And I don´t get to practice my Spanish quite as much as I had hoped, since my task doesn´t involve much interaction. Only when I have to translate things from the english websites. I don´t know what I am going to do when I have to start on Europe and the sites are in Italian, French, Dutch, etc.
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