Day 0 Friday, February 14th - Saturday, February 15th, 2020


Day 0: Friday, February 14th - Saturday, February 15th, 2020 - Travel "Day" (AKA The Longest Commute Ever)

Students waiting to board their flight at Pearson International Airport.
Students from second year Petrology and fourth year Mineral Deposits met at the Union Pearson (UP) Express at 2 pm (Friday, Toronto time) where we headed to Toronto Pearson Airport Terminal 3 for our flight to Amsterdam.

Amsterdam Airport view.
 The flight from Toronto to Johannesburg is broken up into two parts. Part one is the six-and-a-bit hour flight to Amsterdam (a long flight) and the second part is the ten-and-a-small-eternity hour flight to Johannesburg (a looooooong flight). Plus we had a three hour layover in Amsterdam making our journey that much longer. Shoutout to Charly, one of our Earth Sciences professors, for telling us to try the cheese in Amsterdam, it was delicious!

We finally arrived in Johannesburg at 10:30 pm local time on Saturday  (yeah, >24 hour commute, I'll never complain about the TTC again...) and met our professors, Xu Chu and Dan Gregory. From there, we drove to our first accommodation, in Johannesburg.
Flight over Africa.



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