A photo and a story

I had to go back a long way looking for a photo to show you guys, I chose this one.

I took this photo when I worked at CFN, Compañía Frigorífica del Norte, in the summer of 2021.

This is a company that exports fruits, at that time pomegranates and mainly grapes, from the port of Coquimbo to different parts of the world, Korea, Mexico, the Philippines, and other countries; It is located in El Peñón, on the way to Andacollo.

The content of the photo is what you see, a ball. It is made of labels that we had to stick on the boxes of grapes, these described the product in different languages, depending on the country of destination. I remember that the place where we had to paste them was one of the coldest in this factory (I don't know if it's really a factory, but I don't know what to call it) and there were many pallets with many boxes each, so we spent a lot of time there, a lot cold brrr. This was sometimes, just when the pallets were about to be loaded onto the truck that would take its to the port.

My job was mainly to be in the cold tunnels, the fruit arrived at night from its place of origin, its go into the tunnels to lower the temperature and after several hours its go to the cold chambers, more boys work there, the ones I was going to help while there was nothing to do in the tunnels. In the cold rooms we had to arrange the boxes of fruit on pallets as the manager instructed us. The first day with luck I was able to lift one box jaja, but by the last day I could already carry three jeje.💪

Well, sometimes we had nothing to do and we went out to rest and talk, it was in one of those breaks that we made this ball, the color label is for the 'brand' and type of grape, there were several, of various colors. We played with it for a few days, it was a lot of fun.

I chose this one because it reminds me of the good days at a job where I met great people and learned a lot, including how to operate a forklift. In addition to this, I spent the whole summer in La Serena, I lived with my grandmother and shared a lot with my family, mainly with my cousin, that was the best, we had a great time.

Although I worked very early from Monday to Saturday, and even some Sundays, and it was very cold, it was a very good summer, I lived in Serenita for almost 4 months, and I earned a lot of money.🤑 It was also a total escape, I had been locked up in the same place with the same people for a long time because of the pandemic, I needed to breathe.

Some more photos of the coldest summer I've ever spent.

                 

        

               Pallets inside the cold tunnels.                                 I had to be very warm.