Well after 26 hours of traveling, we finally made it to South Africa!!! We landed in Johannesburg around 5:30 pm (or 7:30 am California time). Everything went well on the flights here and we had no complications at all. Which is absolutely magnificent in comparison to my last travel experience!
Anyways, the flights here were quite long (3 segments at about 7 hours each) but I was able to watch a couple movies and sleep a lot :-) Also it was nice to be able to chat and get to know some more of the people that I'll be living and studying with for the next 4 moths while I'm here. This has definitely been the longest time I've spent traveling somewhere before. It was interesting because when we left Los Angeles it was sunrise and then when we landed in Washington DC it was sunset, then when when we left Senegal it was sunrise and when we landed in South Africa it was sunset. That definitely helped me realize just how far away South Africa is.
For now we will be staying in Johannesburg for 2 nights and then we are flying to Durban (luckily only an hour or so flight). From Durban we will be then be driving to Pietermaritzburg where we will stay for about 3 months. This has already been such an amazing adventure and I'm so excited to begin exploring tomorrow! Tomorrow we will be traveling to Soweto and visiting museums... It should be great! :-) Well until next time!
God Bless,
Yvette
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