Very cool! Always been an idle dream of mine to go to Basque country and learn Basque. Can I ask how and why you're learning Basque?
Since 2004 I live in San Sebastian, which is in Basque Country. The educational model here is bilingual, so at school I had to study some subjects in Basque and struggled at it. Eventually last challenge came, the exams to access the university. Only the actual Basque subject was to be made in Basque (for me, others could choose to do the opposite way and take every exam in Basque except the Spanish language) and I managed to get 5,3/10, narrowly passing and feeling more proud about the 5,3 than about the multiple 9s I got in other subjects. After that, I was finally free, at University I could teach every subject in Spanish and forget the local language that at the time I hated.
Of course, even by purpose, fully forgetting a language is hard, especially when the moment to find a job arrived. At the CV I put that I know Russian, Spanish and English at a good level and then that I know Basque, Polish, Ukrainian and Lithuanian at a basic level (last one is a blatant lie, I only know a few words in Lithuanian. Ukrainian one is also semi-lie, I understand it, but if someone speaks to me, answer in Russian or English if it's someone with understandable nationalistic views).
My first job was an internship and Basque wasn't needed. In fact, speaking with anyone who wasn't my superior wasn't needed at all.
My second job was another internship, but in Lithuania. Russian, Spanish and English were all needed, Basque was not.
Third job was again a 2 week internship, but now at a bank sucursal in Zumaia, a coastal town of Basque country (one of the most beautiful ones, recommend visiting it). Here most customers started conversations in Basque, but my limited knowledge was enough and Zumaia is "civilized"enough for the customers to switch to Spanish the moment I did that (in deeper Basque Country they are less nice about this).
Fourth job was at an hotel at the Pyrenees, outside Basque Country again. Some Basque tourists got there during my time but they didn't expect to anyone knowing Basque, so spoke in Spanish directly. Somehow, even Polish language was more useful for me than Basque at the hotel.
At my current job (since 2020) I am again in San Sebastian. I have to speak with a lot of clients but only like 40% of them are from Basque country. Even 90% of those start the conversation in Spanish, so in theory I don't need Basque to do the job. However, many of my workmates (including a girl I am interested in) are from towns outside San Sebastian, meaning they are more Basque than Spanish. Sometimes they speak between them in Basque and I of course want to integrate there, meaning that taking a course would be useful. Another reason is that by September of 2023 I realized my life outside of work was empty and depressing, my number of friends is currently dangerously close to 0 and every day after the 8 working hours looked the same. Therefore, I decided to learn a language in hope to meet new people while doing so. My first choice was Italian, which looked easy, but not enough people signed up for a group to be formed. So, I decided to sign to a Basque course which for now is being a good decision despite not meeting anyone to hang around with even there. In May I will try to take the B1 exam, and since I don't actually need it to do my job, I don't mind about failing (which is pretty likely to happen, it's a very difficult exam), so I will do it with 0 pressure unlike others (unlike me, many people do actually need a proven level of Basque at work, especially outside of the cities).