What a great story! Thanks for writing it up. Sounds like you had an amazing experience.

> Towards the end of my stay, I started feeling something I'd never quite experienced before: genuine freedom. The freedom to dress how I wanted, speak my mind, eat anything, go where I pleased—without the constant mental calculations that had become second nature growing up in Indian society.

Something about being in a new culture where you don't understand the subtle things is very freeing