Day 1 (or rather, Day 0.5): Finally after a 10.5 hr long flight, I landed at Heathrow. I must thank my coworker Nick for giving me his Premiere status -- now I know how well business class is treated! Bedseats are the greatest things ever! Just my luck, I sit next to the CEO of a startup, who also happens to do a lot of nonprofit work in Africa. Of course, being my paranoid self, I started asking him about his experience in South Africa, since that was a big concern for both me and Debbie, my manager. The first thing he said was, "Oh, I've got experiences all right". Not good. He, then, proceeded to tell me this story about how he got kidnapped whilst there. He had gone to Joburg with his nonprofit group
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