Government Run Orientation = Full Retard

Monday I spent 8 hours of my life learning everything the Ministry of Education and US Embassy thought I needed to know to avoid being rapped, stabbed, and taken (or any combination of the above) during the next 9 months. The problem being that they spent more time explaining every thing not to do (all of which was common sense), coupled with anecdotes from the peanut gallery, than they did explaining our job of the next nine months. It took until hour 7 for them to finally start imparting some useful knowledge (methodology, strategy, etc for teaching a foreign language). And just when you think the process couldn’t get any more retarded, the next speaker would enter to prove you wrong. Classes start Thursday… I now know 56 strategies for backing up my passport information but I think the teaching bit is going to be run on the fly.