My friends called me, she asked why did I disappear, I said I was sleeping at home, she became very angry, until then did I think about our date.

我的朋友打电话给我，她问我为什么我没有出现，我说我在家里睡觉，她很生气，直到到时我才想起我们的约会。

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I cried hard and long every time before I picked up the phone and called my home, and then told my mom that I had a good time and how pleasant it is to live in a foreign country.

每次拿起电话都要自己对着电话哭上半天才开始拨号，然后面带微笑的告诉妈妈国外是如何的好，生活是多么的愉快。

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Then I called my friend, Nancy. He wasn't at home.

于是我给好朋友南西打电话，可他不在家。

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"I think she had a hard time getting out of the country then, because she called my youngest daughter and said, 'If I'm not home by Friday call the US embassy', so I think she ran into something over there, " says her grandmother Carole.

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