At our latest lunch meeting I talked to Giovanka about her family's Easter traditions. Like many families in america, her family all goes to church and then they have a nice lunch. They do not eat meat during Easter so her grandma usually cooks a big meal with fish. While we often have chocolate bunnies for Easter, in Brazil they give giant chocolate eggs. They come in different flavors and are filled with different kinds of chocolate. (pictures below) Giovanka said that since they are so big people eat them with a spoon. She said that at her high school in the days following Easter, people would bring their eggs to school to eat at lunch and often try bites of each other's. The giant chocolate eggs sound delicious & I personally think that they should sell them here in the U.S.
They sometimes have Easter egg hunts, but it involves finding their big chocolate eggs, not a bunch of small ones. She said that the little plastic eggs filled with candy that kids often hunt for here are lame in comparison, and I have to agree. My family used to hide the real eggs that we had dyed. Giovanka thinks it's interesting how people color eggs here because they don't do that in Brazil.
We talked some about what television shows we like to watch and she named off a number of shows. I asked if she had gotten into watching those shows since living in the U.S. or if she watched any of them back in Brazil. I was a little surprised to hear that she was already a fan of most of the shows before coming to TCU. She said that a number of american shows are popular in Brazil on the international T.V. channels. It's interesting to think how many people, even in countries where English is not the main language, watch american television shows. It really shows how U.S. culture reaches people all around the world.
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