Throughout this whole exchange process, it has been very apparent that this is a God thing. Everything is working out more perfectly than I could have planned it. Before most people, I heard from my city, my family, and even the echange student over there currently from my Rotary District. Most people who went to Russia in the past didn't hear from their families until a few weeks before they left.
It feels like this whole process was supposed to teach me patience and trust; and since I seem to have gotten some of that down things aren't taking so long to get moving. Honestly, I think it took longer to find out where I was going or even if I was in the exchange program than to find out the city and family. Now, the only thing I honestly have to worry about is hearing from the travel agent and learning Russian. In this way, Coco (the girl in my city from Eugene) has been sooo helpful to me. Since she has been through this long agonizing process before, she nicely reads all of my freak-out questions as well as my actually decent ones, and answers them fairly quickly. I am sure she has laughed at some of my questions like "What are the bathing habits?" Through her I found out that my family probably doesn't speak English, I will be attending college Russian language courses, and that the bathing habits of people is similar to here (apparently, her middle-school aged host brother only takes bathes every few weeks).
So now the only thing I have to worry about is learning Russian. Hopefully, I will get some divine intervention for as well, because I really suck at languages other than my own (which I still have problems with). I am so excited to meet Arthur and Julia as well as my nice, big, light room on the 8th floor.
"Habe fiduciam in Domino ex toto corde tuo et ne innitaris prudentiae tuae."
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