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I’m often hesitant to talk too much about a trip in advance. Call me superstitious. But, today my visa arrived in the mail. Glancing over the shiny tag and the dual alphabets spelling out my trip, I’m finally beginning to be overcome by the surreal nature of what I am doing. Finally, it is really happening. I am going to live for months in a foreign land, across an ocean and on the far end of the European continent. I’m going to have to learn to say “чего” instead of “huh” and to endure the endless sea of the bureaucratic Russian system… And I simply can’t wait!