Osmany Hernandez Cruz will never forget his first night in London, Ont. in 2019.
Far from his home in Holguín, Cuba, dressed in a light jacket and jeans, he could barely catch his breath in the bitter cold.
"When we took off from Holguín, it was 33C and by the time we landed in Toronto, it was -19 C. Then I took the shuttle to London, where it felt like -38 C," Cruz said.
Just as he hadn't expected the shocking cold, he never could have imagined how the coming months would change the course of his research and future.