भारत

Luiza

"The first host family I had was an unexpected thing from India because it was just my host mother – Indian families are always big and they often live together - who is a teacher in my school. Not a normal teacher, she is the most feared by everyone, including me, because she’s very strict even for the pattern of an Indian school, where we only use Sir and Mam to call the teachers. We always stand for them to show our respect, but they can punish or even hit the students and we have strict uniforms and rules. Despite all of this, she was very careful and kind to me, and we had a great time together. I’m still calling her Maa, the Hindi translation of mother. I went every morning with her to school by car, it was only 10 minutes away from our home, located in a residential planned neighbourhood, with 2 floors; the first with rooms (where I had my own bedroom) and a kitchen and the second one with a terrace and a small temple where she placed the holy book of the Sikhs, her religion. As she is retiring from school due to her age, I received a new host family, whom I’ve been living with since August 2nd. Here I have my host parents, two younger brothers, my paternal grandmother, one dog, five birds and a turtle. My dad drops me and my brothers at school everyday, as we study in the same one, and my mother picks us later. As it’s just 800m far from home, it would be possible to go by bicycle or even walking but the traffic rules are ignored and there’re no sidewalks, what makes the streets very dangerous. People are used to drive everywhere here, as there are no buses or subways in my city with 1,5 million people. But I’m in love with India and I’m really enjoying my experience here. Indian culture is awesome and the Indian people are so friendly that I don’t even miss Brazil that much."

 

Luiza's Family