Sometimes the #ExpatLife can sneak up on you. This week's guest, Mariya Kuznetsova, had planned to do a couple of years at university in Beijing studying Chinese and international relations before she headed back to Russia. But an internship turned 2 years into 3, and then another, and another... Now 7 years later she's still going strong, having undergone profound changes along the way, looking very little like the woman who left Novosibirsk.

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