"You have the right to say no. But up to a determined point only."

A few weeks ago, all of the "intercambistas" studying at PUC received an email stating that there would be a mandatory "girly pizza party" for all of us...girlies.

At first I was like, mandatory meeting? Pass. And then I realized that I've never been one to turn down free pizza, so we all missed class to see what this was all about.
Turns out, essentially the entire premise of the pizza "party" was to let us know that in Brazil, no does not mean no. In fact, apparently by: kissing boys, dancing with boys, dancing with girls and talking to boys, you are informing them that you'd like to have sex with them. Seriously.

The kicker was finding out that once you're in bed with someone, if they want to have sex with you...they're having sex with you. In the US we're like...hey that's rape. But here they're like...hey you seemed down. That being said, violent crimes are apparently treated very seriously, and our coordinator assured us that any man put in jail who is convicted of rape is pretty much a goner. Immediately.

After the meeting, we wolfed down ate our free pizza, and discussed the fact that we would never again dance with Brazilians. Or each other, apparently.
It's times like that when you're like...being American is pretty great.