Calra and Students
Thank you for the beautiful photos. It was really nice of you guys. When we looked at the photos, All of our classmates were impressed. I’m looking forward to seeing your country. Thank you again!!!
Sangsoon
posted by Dennis @ 8:15 PM
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Dear Sangsoon,
It is a pleasure for us to show you guys the beauties and colors of Brazil. Of course, nothing is perfect. We have many problems here, but the media abroad already shows you the bad side of poverty, violence, minors' exploitation, etc...So the idea was to show you that Brazil is much more than that. It is a country of contrasts and paradox, passion and suffering, creativity and lack of opportunity for many.
I hope that one day you get to visit our country, for we are really proud of being Brazilians!
Carla
I really enjoyed your comments. I think every country has good and bad sides. I really don’t know much about Brazil, but I read the posts that everyone made. It was very informative. Your students are really clever and they are good writers. Even though I live in America, I am Korean. English is not my first laguage. I Hope we can continue to share our experiences.
Sangsoon
Sangsoon,
I'm really glad you like this exchange experience. Soon you'll get more replies from my students. They are certainly very special people, and that's why I decided to invest time, energy and effort to make this international sharing possible.
As a Korean, what's the hardest part for you about living in the US? Have you suffered from any type of cultural shock?
Hope to hear from you soon.
Carla
Hi Carla,
The hardest part is being apart from my family and English. When I got married, my English was so poor, that even when I spoke correctly, I ended up apologizing due to a lack of confidence speaking the language. I don’t speak English well, but I think I have improved a lot since I arrived in the United States back in 1999.
As for any type of culture shock, I would have to say that meeting ‘Single parents’ was the biggest shock. In my country, if someone’s not married and was to get pregnant, she would bring shame to her family. It is practically a crime in my country. Social welfare in Korea is pretty much non-existent.
Hey, I have a question. I read on the internet somewhere that some bats were responsible for biting and causing the death of 23 people in Brazil. Have you heard this? Is it true? Can you tell me anything more?
Well, I gotta run, my husband needs the computer to listen to a basketball game from Michigan. Do you know where Michigan is? Talk to you soon.
Sangsoon
Hi, Sangsoon.
It was interesting to know about your cultural shock. If you came to Brazil you would really suffer from it, as there are so many single mothers here! It is a sad situation, but we see it as part of our reality, not as a crime, like it is in your culture. However, I feel that with single parents families, it is much harder to raise your kids in a healthy environment, for mothers have to work a lot to support the family, and it lacks to the child the man's figure, which is really important. That's why I do my best to have a balanced life with my husband and two little kids.
As for the bats, it really happened in the north of Brazil. I don't know much about it, but in Brasilia there are lots of them at night, but most of their species are harmless. In the North, I just know the people died, but I don't have extra info about the kind of bats that caused the deaths.
Well, Sangsoon, to teach English we need to know a little bit about American geography and I know where Michigan is!!! When I lived in the US, I had lots of American geography and government studies.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Carla
TO Ms.Carla
Hi, how are you? I hope you recieved the postcards that Mr. Oliver sent to you from all of us. I was reading your comments and I also looked at the beatiful pictures that you have displayed, I like everything, but mostly I like the comment about Brasil, and you right not everything is like the media shows, because every country has something good to show. Unfortunately the bad news and comments from the media, somethimes changes people's way of viewing a country.
Mario Laynes
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