In addition to hearing "gringa" and "Americana" everywhere I go, now I have been hearing "oh your country is falling apart." Most people seem to recommend that I just stay in Brazil. And the way the US is looking right now I can't say that it seems like a bad idea. Though I must say watching this from the outside is very interesting. It has renewed interest down here in the election. So people are either just shouting at me because I'm white, because they want to tell me my country is going down the toilet, or because they want to tell me that I better vote for Obama.
Another thing - I am not sure I will ever get used to the fact that milk apparently doesn't have to be refrigerated before opening. It weirds me out that there is a milk aisle in the store and the milk just sits there. It has to be refrigerated after opening (sometimes) but according to the package it is drinkable SIX months after it is manufactured. There is something wrong with that, I'm pretty sure cows don't come with preservatives. Or maybe Brazilian cows do.
So if anyone wants to flee a failing economy, come visit. We can drink "milk."
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it's okay, they don't refrigerate eggs here. they just sit on the shelves next to the peanut butter, you know, just hangin' out.
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