Yeah...Finished 1st week

The first week of work is over. Five days of permanent learning and getting to know new people and also a lot of fun!
I already told you about the first two days of work and they were really great I was very fascinated about the production area but still somehow lost with work and uncertain about what this internship would actually consist of. Wednesday was just awesome because I went into production twice and got to see the molding of the plastic “wings” attached to the catheters as well as the “putting together” of some different kind of catheters. All of this took place under clean room conditions, which means jumpsuit and covers which is always a lot of fun to put on. At least for the moment since it is new to me.
Well Thursday was not so much fun though because a lot of colleagues were gone and the one I am kind of assigned to had too much to do so he couldn’t help me with anything. So I was basically just reading some old validation files to learn the procedure etc. But luckily Pam was there and my Lotus was set up so I was able to write on the Messenger with her.
Today was really interesting though. I participated in my first meeting for the new machine which will be delivered on Monday and we have to Validate in two weeks. Then afterwards we had to finish the reports and visit the Production of Aesculap. This was so different compared to the production sites I was used to. The machine we are validating is for washing scalpel blades. So what they basically do is to punch the blades out of metal, form and then sharpen them before they are washed and then packed. These steps are all rather dirty and smelly compared to the clean rooms I was used to. They also make all the surgical scissors and other stuff like that there. I will visit that later because it was already time to go home for me.
Other than that I have a roommate now which is a 32 Spanish guy from Barcelona. That’s really great because then I can also speak some Spanish and practice on that a little bit. The funny thing was that he locked himself out of his room the first night he came here because he accidently pushed the button to look the door on the inside and then closed it without noticing. Yeah we only had two keys and of course the one we needed was not one of them. So we tried different things to open it but it wouldn’t work. After calling his office in Spain they wrote an email to his contact person here and then the next day somebody opened the door.
This weekend we would like to see some more parts of the island but since it is rainy season (sounds funny but the dictionary said so...) you never know whether there will be rain or not. Well actually it is not that bad because normally it just rains at night but sometimes also rain during the day. And its not just raining its pouring down like I have never seen before. I am pretty sure after two days of rain like this everything in Germany would be flooded. I don’t know where all the water goes… maybe into the sea ;-)
We would like to visit Penang Hill, from where you have a wonderful view of the whole island, as well as some other sightseeing spots around here like a Spice or a Butterfly Farm . Otherwise we will have to go to Queensbay Mall to shop and spent the day at a gambling spot (Spielhölle).
Well I hope you are all just doing fine and have a wonderful weekend.

All the best from Penang