>>1045933I think I know the program you're talking about. Have you already been accepted?
I've heard from a few people that applying can be a mess. I went and did an interview and left thoroughly pissed off. I had been told numerous times that I didn't need to speak Spanish and would learn on site. However, the interviewer, who was moderately proficiently in English, kept blabbering at me in Spanish and seemed to think that I could understand what he was saying.
I don't want to complain too much, because I was in a Spanish-speaking country. However, the interview itself was a bit of a culture shock - I went there thinking it'd take fifteen or twenty minutes and was stuck there for three hours as the man running it kept leaving to take phone calls, make coffee, and more. Apparently that's standard protocol there. Everything in Colombia moves slowly.
One recommendation that somebody gave me is this: when you go to apply for a working visa at whatever government place, make sure you have somebody from the program accompany you.
