AME-A E DEIXE-A.
LOVE IT AND LEAVE IT.
Antes do natal, os americanos pareciam apaixonados pelas arvores de natal. Um monte de barraquinhas nas ruas, cheias de luzinhas, organizadas e bonitas. Aos poucos elas foram sumindo, encontrando seu espaco nos lares de NY (o que eh incrivel dado o tamanho medio dos apes).
Passou o natal e as arvores voltaram para as ruas. Dessa vez, sem o glamour e as barraquinhas. Apareciam jogadas nas calcadas, empilhadas sem nenhum cuidado. A impressao que eu tinha eh que elas tinham sido arremessadas pela janela, jah que surgiam literalmente do nada.
Before X-mas, Americans seemed to love with christmas trees. Lots of street stands selling them, all beautifully lit and decorated. As time went by, they started to disappear, finding their way inside New Yorker's homes (which is a tough thing, if you consider the size of their apartments).
As soon as christmas was over, the trees were back in the streets. Only now without the glamour or stands. They appeared all of a sudden, recklessly thrown over the sidewalks. The impression it gave me was that they were actually being thrown out the windows, since they came literally out of the blue (sky).
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NA UCRANIA, CARTOES DE DESCONTO. NOS EUA, CHAVEIROS.
IN UKRAINE, DISCOUNT CARDS. IN AMERICA, KEY CHAINS.
Foi soh falar dos cartoes da Ucrania, para vivenciar tudo de novo nos EUA. Qualquer lugar tinha o seu cartao de fidelidade. Como voces devem se lembrar, eu reclamava da dificuldade de carregar tanto cartao. Nos EUA, o problema foi resolvido. Ao inves de cartoes, eles fazem tags com um codigo de barras que voce coloca no chaveiro. Eh bom voce nao ter muita chave porque, em pouco tempo, o anel fica entalado.
I kinda bit my tongue talking about the Ukrainian discount cards. The reason: I had to live with them in America as well. Every shop had it's fidelity card. As you might remember, I complained about how hard it was to carry around all those cards in Ukraine. In America, they solved the problem by doing small tags that can be fit in your key ring. Just pray you don't have many keys or soon you'll find your key ring stuck with all those plastic discount whatever.
