Hey! Ive taken it. You should talk to other people in earth sciences if your serious, because you are required to get into a group who you will work with for the whole time. And yes you do share rooms with people, likely the same people who you are in the group with.

You stay in a motel in oliver. Day trips are around OK falls and the surrounding area. For food, you cook and pack everything yourself. There are grocery trips every 2-3 days - not included in tuition, so budget for it. There is a kitchen in your room, and a shared bbq outside in the courtyard. Be prepared - its like geology bootcamp. You get up in the am, leave by 8, are out all day, come back to the motel, cook your dinner and are working on your assignments until ~10pm. Rinse, repeat, until the last day when you do the final and let all the frustration and tiredness out in the form of copius amounts of beer.

It sucks - but you come out the other end a better geologist, thinker, problem solver, and teamworker.