Devon CP #6

Isabela de Oliveira Soares (Brazil)

8/12/21

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Today Isa and I were talking about the different holidays in our respective countries. I told her about some of my family's traditions for Halloween in particular since they are probably the most extreme. Our biggest Halloween tradition is carving pumpkins and putting them outside our house. 

These are some of the example pictures from my family's Halloween pumpkin carving sessions. While we were on the topic I also told Isa about Trick-or-Treating, pumpkin catapults, and costume parties. 

Isa then told me about her family's traditions during Easter time. She told me that they would each get giant chocolate eggs that are the size of footballs. She said that the grocery stores will have a cage like structure above all the aisles and that the eggs will be tied to the structure. She said that there are so many suspended chocolate eggs that they would block out the light and make the aisles darker. I do remember the chocolate eggs, but I do not remember seeing this at all. She said it might also be a regional thing or only in big cities.

For the rest of the session we talked about Christmas in Brazil, Chanukah at my house, Thanksgiving, as well as our respective independence days. One day I would like Isa to come visit me here in the US and we will go to Disney for New Year's Eve to see the fireworks. 

After this session, Isa told me that she found it interesting to talk to me in English because it made her think more about what I was saying, as well as what she was going to say next. Even so, in the future we will still probably talk mainly in Portuguese.