India, My New Home
Welcome to my blog, friends! Hello Everyone! I am Louisa Funk and I am an AFS exchange student exploring India. I’ve been on my cultural exchange for a little over two months now. Numerically, I’ve lived in India for only a tiny fraction of my life, but these last 60 days have felt the opposite of small. When I reflect on all the wonders I have seen, people I have met, the language I’ve begun to learn, and the sheer amount of life I’ve witnessed and absorbed, I think: “there’s no way all that living and learning happened in just a matter of weeks.” I’m living in a way I never have before. It’s overwhelming and new and beautiful and somewhat bizarre. I cannot wait to see where this whirlwind of a year will take me. My new home is a saffron colored row-house with a mango tree in the front, slightly removed from Nashik City, Maharashtra, India. Nashik is the third largest city of the state Maharashtra, after Mumbai and Pune.