/me wanna come to brazil anyway...
I've always wanted travel in south america... I'm planning to take a year of in a year and a half, see if it's possible to come and see the amazonas and the andes, and probably rio too
but to get ontopic, It's too bad when you can't feel secure walking around in a mall anymore :/
I've never experienced anything like that myself though... I guess denmark is a pretty safe country to go shopping in...
I hope you'll get over it without problems