First of all...a huge sorry for not updating until now! I'll get better at updating ;)I feel I should take time out to tell a little about my host family!

So...I live with the best family ever! I have a younger sister who is 17 named Saylee who is studying engineering. She is the typical 17 year old...she goes out and likes western music and fashion (she is indeed very fashionable!)She is also very intelligent, and I love hearing her speak English because she has a very classy/ cute accent! Anyway, I have a brother, Sanket, who is 14 and hands down the most social 14 year old I have ever met. He has like 1,200,547 friends, and they come over often. Also, there are two girls Poonam, who is 20 and Geetha, who is 23. Both are paying guests and stay in a room off of our flat.

There are always people over. My host mother (I call her Ai, which is "mom" in Marathi) is the most social butterfly! She goes out during the day to friend's homes, and if not, then her friends are over at our house. My baba works in Mumbai during the day, so he's usually out. I love that there are always people over (and I'm very lucky in this sense because most of the other ACM students live with just host parents, and no siblings). Actually, there are only 2 ACM students living with more than 2 other people, and I'm one of them!...;)

I keep realizing more and more just how BIG Pune really is. It's has about 3 million people, and I guess it's because there are not towering sykscrapers or 5 laned streets, and its streets have exotic trees that its easy to forget just how gigantic of a metropolis it is. Pune is spread out rather than up, and the farther out you go, the more you realize that it is pretty sizable.

Yesterday ended the 10-day long festival for the goddess Chatishringi. On Saturday I and 3 others went to her temple and it was KHOOP crowded! The line going to her shrine was miles long I swear! We wanted to go to the top, but we would have waited all day to reach it. Yesterday, to celebrate the goddesses' birthday, my ai cooked this really nice meal and we had lots of company over! Most of them were girls my age, so naturally we had a great time messing around!

Well, I hope this update doesn't disappoint anyone. I'm sorry I've been so sucky. A few weeks ago, we visited the Ellora and Ajanta caves, which are these ancient Jain, Buddhist and Hindu caves that have been carved out of rock with just a hammer and chisel! Pretty amazing. Our hotel was nice too...get this (it was outdoors!) and it had this serene garden where you could eat your breakfast and look out at the waterfalls and caves in the distance! Pretty neat! Well, that's it for now! Until then!