{"id":7304,"date":"2015-09-21T10:37:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T15:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=7304"},"modified":"2015-09-28T19:15:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T00:15:22","slug":"international-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/7304","title":{"rendered":"International Spotlight: Artur Pereira"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Kara Bentz–<\/span><\/strong>
\nArtur Pereira is one of the 50 international students here at Morningside this year. The\u00a0International Affairs major\u00a0came here from Ribeirao Pereto, Brazil, a city of\u00a0600,000 people.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Artur
Artur\u00a0Pereira<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As\u00a0most people would expect, Artur has noticed many differences from life in Brazil to living in America. He has an advantage over most international students, though, because in high school he was an exchange student in Texas from August of 2013 to July of 2014. \u201cThe first time was really hard. For the first four months I wished I could go back to Brazil, but this time has been a lot easier.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Artur is on the soccer team, which has helped with the transition because he\u2019s with people the same age. It also helps that this year there are 31 new international students and 19 returning ones to relate to.<\/p>\n

While this second time in America has been easier for him, there are still things that are different and that he misses from Brazil.<\/p>\n

The food has been a huge change. Artur has a favorite dish in Brazil called Feijoada. It\u2019s black beans with a lot of various types of meat mixed in. He said, \u201cWhen you describe it, it doesn\u2019t sound good, but when you taste it it\u2019s very good.\u201d He also loves steak and fish.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is different from American food, which he finds to be too unhealthy, too sweet, and too spicy. Artur explained it best by simply saying, \u201cYou do everything to the extreme.\u201d If he could have one thing from Brazil brought over to America it would be the food. \u201cIt is the main part of your day\u201d so you have to enjoy it.<\/p>\n

A few other differences are the interactions between people and the layout of towns. In Brazil, people are greeted with a kiss on the cheek. They practice more forms of physical interaction like hugging, kisses, or even just touching a friend\u2019s arm or back. \u201cWe are closer. We touch more. Here it seems like people are more distant.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Artur also explained that the cities in Brazil are much smaller because they are more compact. However, when asked what his favorite thing about his city is, Artur actually said he likes \u201cthe big city feeling in a small town because it\u2019s in the country. You can do anything you want over there. You have night life and you have day life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The many cultural differences can make moving to a new country difficult, but Artur is transitioning easily. He is enjoying his time at Morningside very much.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Kara Bentz– Artur Pereira is one of the 50 international students here at Morningside this year. The\u00a0International Affairs major\u00a0came here from Ribeirao Pereto, Brazil, a city of\u00a0600,000 people. As\u00a0most people would expect, Artur has noticed many differences from life in Brazil to living in America. He has an advantage over most international students, though,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":7305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-morningside-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7311,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7304\/revisions\/7311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}