Hi, my name is Alina Nizamova and I am from Russia. I was born in a small town called Ulyanovsk which is known mostly as hometown of the “father of the socialist revolution” Lenin. Growing up, I discovered that the architecture and the general atmosphere of Ulyanovsk resembles North Korea too much and I decided to move into a big city. Thus, for the past four years I lived in Kazan, Russia, and studied linguistics, translation and interpretation in Kazan Federal University. Languages have always been my passion and I was doing translation for the university and volunteered for special events while I was looking for an opportunity to bring my background knowledge and expertise in languages and translation to a completely new level! Luckily, I learned about the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and after graduating from Kazan I became a MIIS Translation and Localization Management student. My ultimate goal is to become a localization project manager and I am willing to focus all my efforts and my energy to achieve it.