{"id":16714,"date":"2019-08-19T10:17:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T04:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/?p=16714"},"modified":"2019-08-19T10:17:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T04:47:40","slug":"my-familys-experience-with-fsl-india-volunteers-shoba-host-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/my-familys-experience-with-fsl-india-volunteers-shoba-host-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"My Family\u2019s Experience with FSL-India volunteers \u2013 Shoba, Host Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My name is Shoba, there are 4 people in my family \u2013 my\nhusband Annappa, my 2 children Ashwath and Ashwith and myself. I work at Asha\nKarya Kartha, Gulvady. For the last 4 years, my family and I have been hosting\nvolunteers from FSL-India. So far, we have hosted 12 volunteers from different\ncountries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG-20190818-WA0042-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16963\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My family and I have greatly benefited from this experience.\nI learnt to speak English and so did my children. The volunteers and my children\nenjoyed playing with each other. They cooked their country\u2019s food for us, i.e.\nFrench crepes, French toast and some other dishes with strange sounding names.\nWe appreciated their food and in turn, they appreciated all the food that I\ncooked for them: puris, chapathis, palya, goli bajis and other snacks. All the\nvolunteers helped in the agricultural activities on our farmland like\nharvesting, making manure from cowdung, planting paddy and arecanut. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG-20190818-WA0039-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16962\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of our most memorable volunteers was David from Germany.\nHe taught my children how to play football and helped them with their English\nstudies and Maths. One day, he was sitting alone with a sad face. When I asked\nhim what was wrong, he said he was remembering his family and missing them. I\ntold him that we are his family now, and from that day onwards, he started\ncalling me Akka (sister). Later on, his family came and visited us. They wore\nIndian clothes and attended a traditional function along with our family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG-20190818-WA0037-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16961\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My family and I learnt about our\nguests\u2019 culture and they learnt about Indian culture in our family. The\nvolunteers celebrated Christmas in our house and even after going back to their\ncountry they still send Christmas gifts for my family. We are very grateful to\nthe volunteers who stayed with us and we thank FSL-India for giving us this\nwonderful opportunity to get to know people from other countries and learn\nabout their cultures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Shoba, there are 4 people in my family \u2013 my husband Annappa, my 2 children Ashwath and Ashwith and myself. I work at Asha Karya Kartha, Gulvady. For the last 4 years, my family and I have been hosting volunteers from FSL-India. So far, we have hosted 12 volunteers from different countries. My family and I have greatly benefited from this experience. I learnt to speak English and so did my children. The volunteers and my children&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/my-familys-experience-with-fsl-india-volunteers-shoba-host-mother\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":16716,"comment_status":"Closed","ping_status":"Closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441,430],"tags":[539,822,315,874,276],"class_list":["post-16714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-study-ltv-kundapur","category-ltv-kundapur","tag-host-family-experience-in-india","tag-indian-cuisine","tag-indian-culture","tag-teach-english-in-india","tag-volunteering-in-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16714","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16714"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16964,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16714\/revisions\/16964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}