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I wish I had read many of these posts before deciding to pursue an internship program with ELEP. It was perhaps the biggest rip offs!!

I completely agree with some of the other posts. The only way I can describe Patricio Parrales and Jonnathan is as scammers! I have set myself as a goal to denounce as much this organization so nobody falls in this trap anymore!

My friends were promised Spanish lessons but what they got were lessons from a teacher that did not even know how to speaks English! Practically the blind leading the blind!! When we told Patricio about it he just made them feel bad about themselves, basically telling them that it was their fault that they were not learning.

On top of that, he did not pick us up from the airport, did not reimburse us for having to pay for a hotel bc it was his fault of not picking us up at the bus station and we had nowhere to go.

The accomodations were just awful too! No toilet seats, food primarily consisting of rice, a cheap filler with little fruits and vegetables. As a European or North American you might think these are things that are not cheap, but in Latin America is dirt cheap. An avocado is 40 cents, a banana 5 cents, just to put it into perspective!

The experience itself of my internship were terrible too. As someone else said, he practically organized things the day before the starting date of the program. I think what I learned the most of my experience was to stand there useless in the ER of my medical internship without proper guiding and doctors not even knowing what to do with us. Doctors there even recommended us to go somewhere else, because the location where we were at was just terrible!

Please, please, please, do not trust this organization. I feel it my duty to help others not get scammed as I did with my friends.

I read posts of some people that speak wonders of this organization. Beware!!! It might be them posing as a past intern! Go by what most of the comments from DIFFRENT people say. You will find out this organization is not worth what they charge and is a scam.