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You may or may not have noticed, but each article I post uses a lyric from a song for the title. That song is usually what I’ve been listening to on a loop while writing the article. (You will find the song title and the artist listed in the tags.) Thus, every few months I am going to release a soundtrack…

I am strangely excited for Irkutsk today. I wish I had my visa. I wish I knew what day I was leaving. I am excited to be in Russia, finally living there, breathing everything Russian for an entire ten months. Today I’m not nervous, I’m not scared, I’m not worried… I’m overwhelmingly curious and antsy. I know that next year will be hard, but I know that it will also be full of invaluable life lessons and unpredictable adventures.