When I've asked friends from Mumbai what they thought of the place the most common responses I ever got was, 'the traffic', 'there's so much traffic' and 'busy'.

Arriving in the city was incredible. India was everything I expected and so much more.

Driving from the airport to our accommodation I swear I had the face of a carnival clown the entire time. It was incredible - my mind was blown. There was people living on the streets, women wearing beautifully coloured sarees, people carrying baskets on their heads. There were women bundling flowers then men selling goods off of the street to people driving by. Children were even playing cricket in the streets.

The traffic was insane. There are no lanes, even with three clearly outlined on the road, nobody pays any attention. The trucks, cars and rickashaws are in seven lanes with everyone beeping their horns every damn second.

On the streets sides there are stalls with various goods; food, flowers and fruit. It was incredible.

We reached our apartment and checked in. A beautiful building with apartments of three beds and an outdoor dining table. It had an antique-y ambience.

There, we ate lunch prepared by the caretakers - a couple of lovely men who ran the building and organised the cooking.

We then went for a walk along the main road - it was something else entirely to be in amongst it all. We waved to passer-bys and there was one that followed us up to the ATM with an ice cream, trying to sell it to us. It was beautiful, a weird kind of beautiful. The children playing in the streets stopped and stared, waving and asking us where we are from. It was heart-warming, especially after being told that we were exoctic people on their land, and they were fascinated by us.

Especially, when on our homeland, they are the excotic people.

It was a massive culture shock - I saw a child taking a poop on the side of the road, children without helmets riding on the back of motorbikes and crossing the road was another adventure in itself!

I can't wait to see what the rest of my time in India has in store for me.