How unpredictable and surprising our life can be! Truly, the Lord’s ways are inscrutable. How sometimes the most ordinary, seemingly routine things and events can turn toward us from a completely unexpected angle. Having been not in just one hot spot in the former Soviet Union and beyond, I was already hardly surprised by anything. But could I have imagined that such a peaceful, harmless occupation as teaching a foreign language might require from me the knowledge and skills of a bodyguard and detective abilities?!