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Facebook Google Plus so before we start
with the questions I think you could say
why you are here in Brazil and where
you're from uh I'm here in Brazil for
work I got accepted into a 6 week
program and I'm from California a little
city called Sunnyville uh probably the
closest city would be San Francisco so
let's start with a questions Sonia oi
asked what do you think about Brazilian
food so far so good I mean there's
obviously some things that I don't like
like corn ice cream I don't know how
popular it is but I was not a fan of
that actually I've never tried that
okay so I guess it's not that popular
but uh like found the like I'm a huge
cheese fan so I love found the yeah and
then there's the like the kosas are good
and then the bivo sorry the bakala the
Bal the bakala that's also like unique
over here and I mean you also have like
the all you can eat meat food which is
definitely like we have those in the US
as well but like the different types of
meat that you have here are very unique
uh I had chicken heart for the the first
time uh I'm not going to lie I was a
little scared at first just seeing those
little hearts like walk by me but I feel
bad eating all those chickens but I
chicken all the time back at home kolina
Bara asked which American food you would
like to eat in Brazil and you haven't
found here nothing back home that I've
missed in too much over here so like you
guys have hot dogs you guys have
hamburgers like basically everything i'
want back home what about the hamburgers
here you think as good as um yeah I mean
the first couple couple weeks I was here
I had a lot of hamburgers cuz I couldn't
really read the menu and I wasn't told
that I could ask for an English menu so
I just basically whatever I saw like oh
salami sandwich okay hamburger and you
like salami right yeah I like salami and
cheese Rael track asked what's your best
and worst Impressions about Brazil and
he asked you to talk about cultural
differences between Brazil and the USA
the best thing about Brazil is I mean
I've only been basically s Paulo and po
cheese so I haven't really TR that much
and I'm stuck in this bubble but I think
it's amazing how like there's so many
different things to do just walk down
the street there's a different bar
there's a different restaurant it's a
different nightclub and I still have so
much to experience and I've been here
like 4 and 1/2 weeks and then all it
takes is like a 10minute taxi ride and
you're in a whole different part of the
city with a whole different type of
culture like back in the States I guess
like there's Impressions that basically
it could be scary living over here and I
know like when I first told my family I
was going to come here they were like a
little scared for me but I haven't had
anything bad happen there's really no
bad Impressions because I mean even if
you like drive and you're looking at
taxis and you see like graffiti on walls
that like that could be scary but it's
the same thing that you're going to get
in California I know but were you scared
before coming to Brazil or was something
that your family thought um I was scared
once my family told me certain stuff
that could happen but like it could
happen if you asked yeah exactly I think
that's the thing is like people focus on
these small stories and like stuff
happens in the US and people just don't
know about it cuz it's not told s asked
which positive aspect have you noticed
in Brazil and you want to take back to
the USA the biggest thing that I've
noticed in Brazil is basically how
welcoming people are I mean I don't know
if it's because I'm a Greeno and they
just like enjoy like hearing a green go
talk but like I could just do but like I
could basically just go up to like a
group of people and I'll just like say
oh can you like help me with this like
everyone's just kind of like welcoming
you made the effort to talk to me do you
remember that yeah I I did cuz I think I
saw that you were like uh I was like you
just sat next to me and my coworker I
was like oh so what team do you work on
yeah so yeah and then we started talking
and Pa asked questions about the
educational system the United States I
went to private school my entire life uh
it typically starts when you're 5 years
old and uh you go to kindergarten you go
to kindergarten and then you for me it
was kindergarten through 8th grade and
then uh so you start high school at age
14 and then that's four years in high
school and then it's also uh 4 years of
college for the most part I mean
sometimes if you go to state schools it
could be longer because the uh
classrooms are just so big that you
can't get the class in which you need so
it makes a little bit different Lu J
asked if you have to pay to go to
college yes yes you do have to pay to go
to college I mean there's different
situations which you don't you could get
a financial aid but like you could get a
little part of financial aid or if you
get scholarship so if you you get a
scholarship it's basically where the
university pays you to go to college in
a how do you get a scholarship uh it
there for the most part it's mostly
athletes so uh Sports is a huge part of
our American culture so if like you're a
really good uh basketball player you'll
just be able to go to the university for
free in a sense I guess if you're like
really really intelligent then you can
go for free but for the most part I'd
say like 95% is student athletes get the
free were you a good athlete or no uh I
mean I wasn't good enough to get a
scholarship that's for sure uh I went to
a private school so it's actually a
little bit more expensive how much like
$50,000 a year uh a lot of money it's a
lot of money so I mean I'm still paying
off student loans so in a sense and he's
27 years old I'm 27 years old yeah so
I'm still paying off Sam OA asked a very
interesting question so is it true what
you see in the movies that athletes and
cheerleaders are the most popular
students in high school maybe yeah for
the most part uh I mean cuz Sports is
such a big part of our lives like
basically like the football quarterback
and the football team would probably be
like what you consider the most popular
students in the school uh and then the
cheerleaders usually date like the
football players and then the athletes
so it's true yeah it's definitely I'd
say yeah for the most part so which
group did you belong to in high school
well um I didn't play football uh I was
actually I wrestled in high school uh so
I wouldn't say like I was like top of
the class and I wouldn't say like I was
bottom of the class say like right in
the middle were a cheerleader or like a
dancer or anything no we don't have
cheerer SK like with USA oh well that's
different cuz like every school in the
US you're going to have a cheerleading
or a dance squad and for the most part a
football team like a cheerleader you
always think of as like the most
beautiful girls at the school kind of
thing that's what I think uh well I at
my high school that wasn't the case so I
mean like there's a lot more beautiful
girls I me we had beautiful girls but
like they weren't their cheerleaders are
they ITA asked if americ am an read a
lot of books or no it really differs
between people cuz I mean there's
certain like series that have been like
really popular like Harry Potter uh
Hunger Games because I guess there's
movies about them uh but like me
personally no I don't really read books
it's just like it's not like the one
thing I want to do in my free time is
read that's actually a question that
somebody asked now I forgot the name
sorry I'll put it on the video so he
asked he asked what you do your free
time so you don't like reading yeah what
you do I definitely don't
free time uh I actually play flag
football and then uh I play indoor
soccer uh I mean I work a good amount of
hours so either like watching TV with my
roommates kind of thing or just like U
just staying active and then I go to the
gym as well so that's a big part and
what's your favorite TV show or TV
series right know H man I'm a sucker for
like singing shows but uh something like
Survivor is good um the voice is good we
but I I told you that Brazilian The
Voice is not so nice yeah I haven't
heard it and since you told me that I
didn't go look it up no you you should
check but there's also like Breaking Bad
Dexter I don't know if you guys have
shows like this yet no we watched those
shows oh okay yeah those are like Chen
past Walking Dead is another big one I
love those T Bruce asked you to mention
your favorite place in the USA so a
place that you would recommend my
favorite place in the USA is going to be
Vegas Ling is obviously what's most
correlated with Vegas and it's awesome
I'm not going to lie you could lose a
lot of money uh but it's also like a
great experience and when you're
gambling the drinks are free so that's
something that people don't really may
not know about uh also in the US it's
not popular to like walk around or like
you could get arrested for walking
around with like a beer in your hand um
you can't walk around you can't walk
around with any alcohol in your hand but
in Vegas you can so it's a lot like
sollo I don't it it's weird it's you
can't drink and drive okay but why you
have to be arrested for drinking and
walking yeah it doesn't make any sense
to me and there just so much you can do
in Vegas so if there's like a show going
on like I don't know people like Circ
this Britney Spears goes over there
Whoever likes Britney Spears have you
ever been to a Britney Spears show no no
no but I had a huge crush on her when I
was like 14 I think I had like magazine
pictures of her on my wall it was bad it
was bad my case was hansome really guys
if you don't know Hensley should check
okay no you should maros ven us act what
makes it difficult to understand
Brazilian so is it pronunciation is it
grammar is it vocabulary I understand
like mostly everything I think the
pronunciation there's like certain like
words I can't think off the top of my
head just might be like the I and the E
sounds and like I'll just ask the person
like oh what did you mean and then
they'll just repeat it and then I'll
kind of understand that kind of stuff
like the grammar like we make
grammatical errors in our everyday life
speaking English so we ar like that's
not going to affect me it's the way that
you pronounce the words these were the
questions that I selected to ask him the
questions that you asked uh but now as
finish this video I'd like to ask you if
you can say something in Portuguese I
know you know some words and sentences
so I would like you to tell them what
you know uh man I don't know too much
when I came here I
knew and then I got taught some pickup
lines uh in Portuguese I guess so give
us an example both say thing Lind
George Have you ever really said that I
haven't said it yet I've used the
thing oh nice and that was that works so
that work you can order some beer in
Portuguese right cuz you tried that in
pach you told me yeah I said it I said
it in Spanish though how did you
say
mid okay I understand it more than I can
actually speak it so if I hear like
people here speaking Portuguese I pick
out different words and I can understand
like what the conversation is about so
let's check I'm going to say something
port and then I well you also got to say
a little bit slower okay I'll try to
speak
slow oh uh hope you guys like this video
good something about little bit of
history your story story got it story it
was nice it was nice to learn about your
story oh your life who we got
you well thank you for taking the time
to talk to me uh it was great um
hopefully you guys got to learn a little
bit more about the American culture and
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try for the first time so it's going to
be a lot of food and then a lot of bars
and nightclubs in which I'm going to
so
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