{"id":20685,"date":"2023-07-04T11:13:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T05:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/?p=20685"},"modified":"2023-07-05T18:41:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T13:11:07","slug":"volunteer-voice-discovering-myself-through-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/volunteer-voice-discovering-myself-through-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer Voice: &#8216;Discovering myself through India&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My time in India was very wonderful. I got to meet very nice people and learn a lot about India and about myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The project where I worked and lived gave me this opportunity. I am working in an agricultural project. The project belongs to the Mount Rosary Institute, a Catholic organisation. Here, they grow coconut and arecanut trees as well as various plants from beautiful flowers to vegetables like ladyfingers and cucumbers. This place is very peaceful and nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am working alongside one worker and right now one other volunteer. Therefore, we are doing many different tasks and contributing much to the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through my work, I learned many things about agriculture. I also learnt a lot about religion especially Christianity, as I am living next to a convent of the Catholic organisation, which my project belongs to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A really nice family is living next to our house. They are very wonderful people. Through them I learnt much about the Indian culture. I will surely miss them when I am gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One thing I probably with hindsight missed was that I didn\u2019t live in a host family. Because then I would have got to know the Indian culture much more directly as I would have seen the everyday life of Indian people. Also I would had have been forced out of my comfort zone by living in a new environment of an Indian family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But still I am very grateful to live in an accommodation and not in a host family. In this way I got more independent and was very free in going out and doing things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally I feel very happy that I was able to travel to different places in India. I experienced beautiful landscapes and met really nice people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall my stay in India was very educational as I learnt a lot about India, its people and culture and also learnt about myself. I am really grateful to have had this opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My time in India was very wonderful. I got to meet very nice people and learn a lot about India and about myself. The project where I worked and lived gave me this opportunity. I am working in an agricultural project. The project belongs to the Mount Rosary Institute, a Catholic organisation. Here, they grow coconut and arecanut trees as well as various plants from beautiful flowers to vegetables like ladyfingers and cucumbers. This place is very peaceful and nice&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/volunteer-voice-discovering-myself-through-india\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,430,439],"tags":[304,6,150,276],"class_list":["post-20685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fslnews","category-ltv","category-ltv-kundapur","category-volunteer-voice","tag-agriculture","tag-fsl-india","tag-inter-cultural-learning","tag-volunteering-in-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20685","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20688,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20685\/revisions\/20688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}