Intensive German Course, Stuttgart, Part 6

My Intensive German Course in Stuttgart has continued to be eventful, but that's the problem, I wasn't looking for an eventful course.  After four months, I've finally decided to change to another Intensive German Course in Stuttgart at another school.   It has been building for months - the lack of teaching - handing out grammar sheets is not teaching, the insults "I don't understand why you don't get this, it's not that hard", or "Why don't you know how to conjugate a $%&# verb?  You've been studying German for 3 1/2 months!"  But the insults in the Intensive German course  haven't been aimed directly at me - until now.  Two days ago I read a paragraph in German only to have our German teacher throw her hands up in the air and publicly declare my reading skills to be a "catastrophe."  So much for building my confidence.... I went home and cried. 

The next day, our other teacher who is very nice, but very, slow and very boring informed us that we have 2 1/2 chapters to cover before our A2 Exam next week so we would be extremely time crunched and that homework would be at an all time high - not including exam study time and that we would have very little time to review for the exam in class, as we did for the previous exam.   Hmmm....maybe because most days all we do is 2 grammar worksheets in 5 hours?  Either way, I was not impressed and met with the Intensive German Course Administrator that day.  To my relief, she was horrified when I told her why I was changing schools and apologized profusely.  Her validation meant more to me than it should have, but my confidence was still shaky.  

In retrospect, I wish I would have changed schools earlier.  I'm normally a "take charge" kinda gal.  Although I had previously tried speaking to the teachers and had formally complained to the Administrator before, I wasn't as proactive as I normally would have been and as a result my German isn't as good as I would like it to be.  This has me wondering, is our tolerance for B.S. higher when we're living abroad?  Are we so busy trying to adapt and fit in that we let things go by that we shouldn't?  Do you deal with challenges differently when living abroad than you do at home?