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      In San Francisco, I know a couple of them but we don't hang out. In Bolivia, I'm pretty good friends with my landlords (two brothers and a sister) who all live in the apartment building, and I've also hung out with a couple other people in the building, too.

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      my immediate family- 4 of us, other than that it gets bigger

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      Oooh being that I have right now had rice and potatoes for every meal for the past 3 days, my mind is already full. I would probably go with a three course Japanese meal: starting out with a green salad or seaweed salad, then rolls: philadelphia roll, crab-pumpkin tempura roll from Tanuki, and a sake nigiri. Then for dessert I would have this amazing chocolate and mochi covered strawberry that I had at this Japanese restaurant called Eji in San Francisco.

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      When I'm in SF not really because I am out doing stuff all the time, but in Bolivia I don't really go out at night too often, so I'm often on skype or gchat with friends from home.

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      long long long (on girls) and short on boys!

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      Ahahaha absolutely. Sometimes when I'm doing fieldwork I latch onto one *bad* movie and watch it as a sort of comfort-object...In India it was 50 First Dates, in Cuba it was Twilight, and in Bolivia it's been Burlesque and Sex and the City (see..BAD movies haha).

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      I'm so done visiting other countries (and I'm currently living in Bolivia)...after this I just want to stay in California forever and never leave. But...if I *had* to choose somewhere it would probably be Bali or back to Argentina.

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      alissalily responded to LeeHirsch 13 Apr

      Probably the most extreme was standing outside in the Bolivian Amazon, 7 hours by canoe from any city, in the middle of a monsoon-like rainstorm with the possibility of a huge herd of pigs running through us, holding her hair back while she had food poisoning all night long!

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      alissalily responded to laura 11 Apr

      I hope I was far away from actually *almost* dying (I'd like to believe I could survive a plane crash if it happened...) but it definitely was one of the most terrifying experiences ever. I was just waking up as the pilot said we'd be landing in La Paz shortly, and all of a sudden out the window I saw these sparks of lightning coursing around the wing. Then we had this insane turbulence that dropped us and rocked us a few times- but like seriously dropped, not just like the normal turbulence. Everyone was freaking out. We were told that the plane had been hit head-on by lightning and we wouldn't be able to land in La Paz (I'm guessing because it is already dangerous landing at high altitude) and that we would be making an emergency landing in Santa Cruz...needless to say the whole plane cheered when we landed, and some shouted "I love you" to the pilot. Very happy to be safe.

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