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<\/a><\/p>\nJust 10 walking minutes far from my working place, the FSL center in Shetrakatte, I live together with my father (Chandra), my mum (Annapoorna) and my 11 years old sister (Sinchana). My 18 years sister (Archana) is going to college and is living outside.<\/p>\n
It is also interesting being in a Hindu family, two times they took me to the temple, another day they had a ceremony to bless their scooter, so Ganesha, Krishna and Shiva will keep them safe while driving in the crazy Indian traffic.<\/p>\n This weekend I will celebrate Christmas together with them, it\u2019s their first time, because I am their first volunteer. Therefore they are more excited than I am \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n I am very happy having this lovely family and every time I enter the door I feel like coming home.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Namaste! My name is Sophia and I am a long term volunteer staying 11 months nearly Kundapura, Karnataka. This article will be about my experiences in my host family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"Closed","ping_status":"Closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fslnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/a>Because my host father is a farmer, we have two cows, five goats, two cats, one dog and three chickens. What I really love about my family is that they treat me like their own child. When I am at home I like to do paper craft, drawing or playing “UNO” with my sister and the neighbour children. Even when they have their own (kind unfair) rules, it is always fun!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n