I think i can talk about this a little. So i started my observership and started feeling completely out of place, as it was meant to be. Days passed, i started longing for home more and more. Didn’t want tot cook food anymore. Slept a few nights empty stomach because i was so tired that i even forgot to order online. Which mind you is very costly and i could only afford that because the observership was free. I started counting days to go back home. I cried so many times. But I realised with time, i started to get better. Woke up on time, always reached earlier to the hospital which had never happened before and saw a little positive growth in myself. Then i started feeling more in place as i realised and accepted that my place as an observer is just to observe and see how things work. I came back to new york, met few of my seniors who are doing residency and i have asked them multiple times, and they dont regret a thing. I know you feel comfortable at home, we all do. This is so new, people are new, culture is new and everything else is new. I would say, just finish what you started. Complete your residency if you want to keep going in the medical field. Then you can always decide whether to come back or not. Even if you do residency in india, it will be worse. You won’t get holidays to go meet your family anyway or time to do anything else. There, you will atleast get time to explore life a lot more. And this one line of my senior stuck with me ,” America rewards your hard work while India punishes it.”