[OLD] Climb to the Stars! (Stephanie Booth) - So, how was the trip? Tell me about it!

Experiences of a Westerner in India: "The first three months were really hard, looking back. My solitary arrival, sickness the second day, a landlady I didn't get on with and who gently kicked me out, illness and money problems in Delhi - all that was no fun. The worst at that time was solitude. I was suffering from culture shock, slightly depressed, didn't know whom to trust, and I had the feeling that try as they might, the people I confided in couldn't truly relate to what I was going through. That was normal, of course - just as we have trouble imagining what it is for an Indian to land in our culture."