Americaaaa!

During our last English class we had a really interesting presentation by Michayla Chandler. She's an American girl, from Knoxville Tenesesee, but her current city is Elgin. In the mid-east of the USA. She's 17. She has been in Brazil for almost a year. She's living in Blumenau and she's studying at Santos Dumont . Michayla understands Portuguese but she says she  doesn't talk so well, I think she's a bit afraid of talking. She seems a bit shy, but she's really nice. 

Michayla explained us about her country, she talked about the most popular cities in the USA (Miami, Chicago, Washington DC, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Denver, Indianapolis, Baltimore). I asked her what places she has visited there, and she told me that she went to Miami, NY and another place that I unfortunately don't remember. And here in Brazil, she went to Rio Grande do Norte, Mato Grosso do Sul, and some other places, and she also visited Bolívia, with her hostfamily.

She told us that her hostfamily don't speak English so she has to speak ptg, it was a bit hard in  the begining but now she's a bit more used to that.

About the most important holidays there, she said that there are three. Thanksgiving, Xtmas and 4th July. 

I asked her what they, American,  think of us and I felt that she was a bit afraid of answering that question, but she answered anyway. 

Well, she talked about stereotypes : we wear small biquinis, Brazilian girls have big butts, she said that they don't use to shave their legs, but we always do that  and they have something called Brazilian wax there, she said that some people think that there is a jungle around here  and a friend asked her if she had a monkey as a pet  in Brazil! They say that Rio is really dangerous,if you go there and you are a tourist they  will kidnap you and they steal your kidneys and sell them, MY GOD!

 But she knows it is a lie because they exaggerate everything. She also said 10 words connected  to Brazilian people and also to  American people.

Brazilian People:

1. Welcoming

2. Friendly

3. Never on time (hahaha because of the traffic)

4. Family oriented 

5. Adventurous

6. Lay back (in a good way)

7. Put-together (we care more about our appearance, we try to look well, always)

8.  Talkative

9. Concerned

10. Indirect (we usually don't go straight to the point haha)

American People:

1. Monocromatic 

2. Usually on time

3. Opinionated

4. Home bodies (they prefer to stay at home)

5. Less family oriented ( She told us that there they don't spend so much time with their families, but here we do, and she felt a bit weird with that in  the begining because she wasn't used to that, there they spend more time with their friends)

6. More independent (They don't talk to their parents so much when they have a problem, for example, they try to solve it by themselves)

7. Patriotic (Oh yeah, they are really patriotic!)

8. More direct

9. Agressive (in a positive way)

10. Good competitors

I really liked talking to her, and know more about her country and know what she thinks about Brazil and how she feels here. I also really liked listening  to her accent, because English is her mother tongue  so she has a beautiful accent, it fascinates me! hahaha

I hope I can meet more American people and make more friends, and maybe catch  their accents

 haha

I love English