So, as many of you know I am from Brazil and even though I have lived in the US for almost two decades I still hold on to some old traditions of my home country. One of them is the New Year’s eve traditional meal. As a little girl I grew up hearing that one should not eat any kind of bird on New Year’s Eve since they scratch backwards and that would be bad luck, so we should eat pork because it roots forward and that is a sign of good luck. Here we are, new year’s eve in 2017 and my dad prepared the traditional Brazilian meal, pork, potatoes, pineapple and peaches, ‘farofa’ and rice.
I don’t know that this is traditional all over Brazil but it certainly was around the area where I grew up which was in the southern part of the country.
Another big thing for us Brazilians, is to wear white on New Year’s Eve. It has become harder and harder for me to keep that tradition since here it is the middle of winter and white is not really a color one wears in the winter, but today I was able to wear at least one white piece. I wore a comfy, white, flannel shirt so I could say I wore at least one thing in white.
It is so different from what I used to wear on this evening. Since it is summer in Brazil, I would wear summery dresses, some sparkles and most of us would be close to the beach celebrating the new year… nowadays, I am lucky if I make it to midnight awake.
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Juliana