Saturday, November 27, 2010

Culture in Brazil

Well, we have some different costums here in Brazil, starting from the food.
I know that you have a lot of heavy food in your breakfast, like egg and bacon; it would be almost impossible for us, brasilians, to eat these things in the morning! We are used to having bread, butter, cheese, ham, coffee, milk, chocolate, cake, just light things. Most of the people here are used to just drinking coffee in the morning. We have lunch about 11am or 12pm and dinner about 7 or 8 pm, and most families have barbecue on sundays with relatives and friends. We eat a lot of meat here, I think we have one of the best barbecue around the world.
Changing subject... Work
We start working about 7, 8 or 10 am, depends on your job. Here in Londrina the shops predominate, but in Brazil we have many industries, mainly in big cities. We work until 5 or 6pm.
People here usualy start working at 16, we have lots of jobs for young people and industries offer courses to improve their job.
Changing... School
We start studying around 6 years old, and we study until 17, some people until 18, depends on the age you started doing. After that, we go to college. We have many public and great colleges and universities in all over the country, and many students move to other States to study, like me, I lived in São Paulo State and now Im living in Paraná State, just because of the university. So, to join the university we have to do a test, where many, many people do too, and depends on the course, we study 4 ou 5 years to finish it. But it worths!
Changing... Holidays
I don't know your holidays, but here we have many of them. The mainly ones are the New Year, Easter, Mother's day, Father's day, uh, what else..., Children's day, Independence Day and Christmas. I thinks that's it. In these days we stay with our family or go to take a walk, to visit beautiful places.
Uhm, I think is it I have to speak now.
And, what about you? How are your food, job, school? Im curious to know.
So, See you!!!

2 comments:

  1. we eat break fast like 6am or 7pm depends what time you get up in the morning. We eat scrumble eggs and also you mentioneed we ealso bacons and coffe too and that is about it for breakfast. Changing to school-we start school in kennedy high school 7:50 am and we get out school at 2:20 pm. Sometimes we eat breakfast in the school because the school provide food to the students. changing to holiday.Thanksgiving is good holiday because we eat too much food and turkey and we have two days of from school. Sometimes we have big sales called black friday because people go to stores early like 11Pm and wait the items they need to buy like computers and other stuff. Many people wait in a line in stores when is big sales like black friday. i would like to know what time do you stary school and get out school too. And also which month do you guys start school and which month is your school end. Here in america we start school september and finished june.
    See ya!!!!!!!!!!

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  2. Hey, thanks for answer!
    So, here we have big sales, people stay in line waiting the store open too, but we dont have a name for this day. I think it happens in january, after the parties.
    Very weird the months you go to school. Does the year start in january 1st and you return on 3rd or in the next week? Im very very curious about it, could you answer me soon???
    So, here we start having classes on february,and then in july we have 1 month of vacation and come back in august and study until december 10 or 15th, so vacation again.In winter- may until july more or less- we go to school, and on summer we have vacation.
    The classes here start at 7:20am until 12:00pm. Just some schools have classes until 2pm or 4pm.
    Here in university I study at night, so I arrive at 7:15pm and leave at 10:30pm. Actually we are suppose to leave it at 10:50pm, but as we have to take the bus-not me, I go by motorcycle- we have to leave it earlier.
    I think is it.
    Dont forget to answer my question and put your name!!!
    Bye!

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