

“I never thought I would end up living so far away from home; and it’s surprising how you can’t just fit Russian and Australian reality in your head at the same time. But that’s the choice I’ve made, to move forward to something new.”

“With every pro there comes a con, with every con there comes a pro. Radical acceptance and ambition will set you free.”

“You can leave a place but you can not leave who you are. You arrive at a new place and you can not remain who you are. You became that intricate mixture of past and present, here and there. You became one who will never again be described by a nationality.”

“Living abroad gives me the chance to finally be incomplete. I was always pushed (by myself and others) to be complete, to be perfect, to live everybody else’s lives. I can now fulfill my desire for incompleteness, for imperfectness, and enjoy just being”
