day fifteen – saying goodbyes

Our last day in Chile. I woke up around noon with nothing packed. Luckily I remembered the night before that I had put clothes in the washer and before I went to bed I hung them out to dry once the sun came up. After some prelim packing I went and ate with Ashley [...]

chilean customs

After we got off of our flight it was pleasantly warm outside. On the flight we had to fill out 2 pieces of paperwork that we assumed was for the forest part of the international checkin. As we went to each station we would just hand them evrything we had – paperwork, passports, and in [...]

overnight flight

I knew going into the overnight flight that I would be riding on a big airplane – complete with business class pods, three columns of seats going 7 across, and AVODs for each seat.
Now the comfort technology in the cabin is more than I expected. The whole plane has four strips of ambient [...]

oh canada!

We finally made it to Canada after a 5+ hour lay over. The flight was a bit rocky but what can you expect from a 40 passanger propeller plane – a bumpy flight I guess.
Once off the plane we got onto a tram (aka bus) taking us to the main terminal. Once there we [...]

lay over – more like lame over

So our flight from Pittsburgh to Toranto was scheduled to leave at 11am – that was 2.5 hours ago. There are 3 things that are making this worse:
1. We were boarded – as soon as all of us sat down ( the plane seats ~30 people) they heard that Toranto was not accepting any more [...]

day one \ at the airport

We got through security super fast without too much trouble. One of our groupmates Jon forgot that he had left a hammer in his carryon bag – needless to say they confiscated it. Now we are waiting between the McDonalds and Qdoba in the Air Mall since our flight doesn’t leave till 11…
Hopefully Canada [...]

pre-today

A lot of stuff has happened before I got to today. For the past semester our group has met once a month to go over documentary styles, Chilean culture, brainstorming ideas and other pre-production work.
All of this has lead up to today…