Durante o meu intercâmbio eu sempre tinha pessoas me perguntando como estou gostando do Brasil. Quando eu falo pra alguém que estou amando e que não quero ir embora, eles ficam chocados. 'Mas... por que o Brasil?' Eles perguntam. Bem, nesse blog tentarei explicar algumas perguntas comuns.
'O que você achava do Brasil antes de chegar?'
A maioria das pessoas acham que estrangeiros só sabem das praias, da Amazonia, e da pobreza.
A primeira coisa em que eu pensava, era a cultura linda. Brasil é um pais muito diversificado com uma cultura muito amigavel.
Estou no Brasil há 8 meses e cada dia estou aprendendo uma coisa nova sobre o Brasil.
A comida é uma delicia. Apesar de comer arroz e feijao todos os dias, eu ainda gosto muito. Comida mineira é a melhor, sem duvida. Brasileiros comem demais! Temos um almoço grande com todas as comidas possiveis e apenas duas horas depois, comemos de novo e ainda tem jantar mais tarde!
Vou passar fome quando eu voltar!
Eu adoro que aqui a familia é tudo. Eu juro que cada pessoa que eu conheci tem uma familia enorme!
Eu acho que esta parte da cultura brasileira é muito linda. A familia é mais importante de tudo.
Antes de eu cheguei, eu fiquei um pouquinho com medo que eu não faria amizades rapidamente. Mas graças a Deus, eu vim pro Brasil! Por isso que eu acho que sua cultura é maravilhosa. Fazer amizades no Brasil é muito facil porque os brasileiros sao muito amigaveis. Todo mundo fala com todo mundo. Vocês me fizeram sentir muito bem vinda e muito especial quando eu cheguei. Eu realmente acredito que Brasil tem as pessoas mais simpáticas que eu já conheci na minha vida.
Eu nunca tinha conhecido pessoas tão animados na minha vida. Nas festas, nas ruas, em casa, até nas escolas! Sempre tem alguem dançando ou cantando uma musica. As festas são legais porque todo mundo está dançando, sempre tem música boa, e as pessoas parecem alegres.
Quando chegar na festa, você cumprimenta todo mundo com um beijo e abraço. Mesmo se você nunca tinha conhecido de alguém. Culturalmente, isso é muito diferente pra mim mas acostumei rapidamente.
Uma coisa que eu gosto muito é se voce precisar de alguma coisa, os brasileiros sempre te ajudarão. Mesmo se você não precisa, eles vão te ajudar. Nem precisa se preocupar.
Brasil tem açaí, tem pão de queijo, tapioca, frutas maravilhosas, Guaraná, sertanejo, gente boa, uma cultura bonita, e muito mais.
Eu consigo falar por horas e horas sobre Brasil mas acho que isso dá pra entender.
Eu sou muito patriótica para o Brasil e cada dia o amor que tenho só continua crescer. Estou apaixonada por Brasil e por isso que eu quero ficar.
About Me

- Hailey in Brasil
- This blog is for anyone to follow me on my journey to Brazil on the Rotary Exchange. I am from British Columbia and I will be living for a year in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais.
Thursday, 29 May 2014
Wednesday, 14 May 2014
The 'Farm'
I am just going to start by saying that yesterday (May 13th) was my 8th month mark here in Brazil. Where has the time gone?
One minute you're getting off the plane onto a strange land, not understanding anything but trying to put words together in a language you have never really spoken out loud before... and the next minute you're out with your best friends, speaking that language more often than your natural language. Before you know it you're calling that strange land your home. The home you eventually have to leave to go home...
What a weird series of events.
They always warned us that this year will go by faster than you can believe... I am really seeing that now.
So now back to what I have been up to.
The week after the conference in Caldas Novas, I spend 4 days out at my family's farm about 2 hours away. Now, I call it a farm because it has horses and chickens and fields and stuff but really it's a beautiful property they own with a pool, gardens, 3 houses (a main house for sleeping, a house for cooking and eating lunch, and a house for hanging out with a sauna and a pool table)
It is soo beautiful there!
I got to ride a horse! actually this horse preferred to run so that was cool.
I brought my friend Sandra to come along as well. It was a really relaxing weekend of just tanning by the pool, listening to music, riding horses, and more tanning. Another nice thing was that there was no internet connection out there so there was no distraction by technology. We also got to go fishing in this big pond that was about 20 minutes more in the middle of no where. I caught nothing but it was a nice evening.
I forgot to mention that the food is amazing. They have avocado trees, tangerine trees, they grow their own everything! Fresh tangerine juice is super amazing.
This past weekend I went to a 'Churrasco' with my Rotary club. Churrasco means BBQ but it's not just any ordinary BBQ. When there is a churrasco that means that there will be steak, pork, chicken, sausage, other kinds of beef, and more. All at once...
The churrasco we had this weekend was soo amazing because they slowly smoked the meat. There was so much food and a live band. It was another Rotary club who put on this event to raise money to help send someone on exchange who can't afford it.
That night I went to that nightclub 'Swingers' I seem to always talk about. Each time I go there I meet more and more people, it's awesome!
One minute you're getting off the plane onto a strange land, not understanding anything but trying to put words together in a language you have never really spoken out loud before... and the next minute you're out with your best friends, speaking that language more often than your natural language. Before you know it you're calling that strange land your home. The home you eventually have to leave to go home...
What a weird series of events.
They always warned us that this year will go by faster than you can believe... I am really seeing that now.
So now back to what I have been up to.
The week after the conference in Caldas Novas, I spend 4 days out at my family's farm about 2 hours away. Now, I call it a farm because it has horses and chickens and fields and stuff but really it's a beautiful property they own with a pool, gardens, 3 houses (a main house for sleeping, a house for cooking and eating lunch, and a house for hanging out with a sauna and a pool table)
It is soo beautiful there!
I got to ride a horse! actually this horse preferred to run so that was cool.
I brought my friend Sandra to come along as well. It was a really relaxing weekend of just tanning by the pool, listening to music, riding horses, and more tanning. Another nice thing was that there was no internet connection out there so there was no distraction by technology. We also got to go fishing in this big pond that was about 20 minutes more in the middle of no where. I caught nothing but it was a nice evening.
I forgot to mention that the food is amazing. They have avocado trees, tangerine trees, they grow their own everything! Fresh tangerine juice is super amazing.
This past weekend I went to a 'Churrasco' with my Rotary club. Churrasco means BBQ but it's not just any ordinary BBQ. When there is a churrasco that means that there will be steak, pork, chicken, sausage, other kinds of beef, and more. All at once...
The churrasco we had this weekend was soo amazing because they slowly smoked the meat. There was so much food and a live band. It was another Rotary club who put on this event to raise money to help send someone on exchange who can't afford it.
That night I went to that nightclub 'Swingers' I seem to always talk about. Each time I go there I meet more and more people, it's awesome!
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