Manufacturing Floor Tour🥼 + One-Day Trip to Volcán Irazú by public bus🌋🚌

Pelota⚽️

Earlier this week, I learned about the entire manufacturing production line during my visit to the cleanroom and visited the post-marketing surveillance lab to inspect a CAPA case. It was so interesting to see how our R&D department work side-by-side with other departments. Regarding my accomplishments, I finished a laboratory test report, drafted a technical study protocol, and completed revisions on ten device descriptions.

My friends and I had been waiting for the subtitled version of Inside Out 2 for two weeks, and we finally watched it last Wednesday. I loved how we instantly called out everyone’s personality based on the movie characters. We got 2-for-1 movie tickets because it was Wednesday, and we got caramel and cheese popcorn. It reminded me of Garrett’s popcorn.😍 I love Costa Rican movie theater!

This Saturday, Korie and I watched Euro2024, Germany against Denmark. Thanks to my amazing roommate explaining all the soccer rules to me. (U.S. is playing against Uruguay right now!) On Sunday, Korie, JJ, Lewis, and I took a public bus (it costed us $11/person in total for the round trip) to Irazú volcano. When we arrived, it was super foggy, but it suddenly cleared up in 10 minutes. However, the volcano was too dry, so we didn’t see the crater lake. We ended up just taking TONS of pictures by the rocks. We had a wonderful, relaxing time there still.

On our way back, the public bus did not go back to San Jose downtown and only stopped at Cartago. We ended up walking around the city, visiting Ruinas de Cartago and Basílica de Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles, before taking a connecting bus back to downtown. Definitely an unexpected adventure!

Food-wise, I tried out brunch and dessert places that were recommended by my colleague with my friends on weekend. They were delicious!! Highly recommend the torta chilena and cuatro leches!

Regarding my Spanish learning journey, I am in Unit 1, Section 6 on Duolingo. Besides that, one of my very nice colleagues shares a Spanish song with me every day. I’ve been trying to pick out 5 words from the lyrics and listened to more Latin songs.