Más despacio, por favor

I went to my first free spanish class yesterday. There were people from all over: Syria, Morocco, Russia, England, Italy, and Nicaragua (i think that woman just wants to learn PROPER spanish). The instructor (Chatti-an appropriate name for sure) probably thinks I should be in the level 1 class, but really I just can´t understand a word she says. You would think a teacher would think to speak more slowly when teaching a class of non-speakers. Also, I find that often I have the correct answer, but either I am not enunciating clearly enough or she just can't understand my accent, or maybe she just enjoys making people feel like they are wrong. I believe she is an actress of some sort, which makes sense because she definitely looks like the Spanish Goldie Hawn, and this is only a side gig. I wonder if my spanish really is that bad or if I'm just a bad listener in this language as well. Either way, I am not used to being the slow kid in class. It's like sophomore year when I tried to take the Honors accelerated spanish class, and the teacher banned english on the first day, so I quit. Only, there is no sense of foreboding like there is with a graded university class. Really freeing, actually - I might actually learn something this way.