My boss in the 1970s graduated from MGIMO, now he is an ambassador. He studied Arabic, wrote a diploma on Yemen and was planned to be sent on a business trip to that country. But something there didn’t work out and it was distributed to Sudan. Well, Sudan is Sudan, giving up the first trip is generally not accepted. After the distribution, an old experienced diplomat approached him, knocked on his shoulder and said:
You don’t even know how lucky you are.
What is luck?
No matter where you are sent, it will still be better than Sudan.