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OIJ investiga muerte de tres oficiales en Pocosol, Alajuela MAYO 2019.- Tres oficiales de la Policía de Fronteras fallecieron esta madrugada en condiciones que aún se investigan.

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We woke up early to go bird watching today. Apparently, Pocosol is one of the best places for bird watching in the country. Unfortunately, I somehow managed to eat something with nuts and had to miss out on most of bird watching so I could recover (everything turned out ok!). I also missed lecture today, but I felt good enough in the afternoon to go swimming at the beautiful lake about five minutes down the hill. The water was pretty cold and had a very steep drop off, but it was a beautiful day and its been a long time since we’ve had the opportunity to go swimming.  After dinner we had a “statistics” lecture that really wasn’t much more than Alan telling us that statistics is a thing we have to do as biologists. As part of the lecture we tasted and ranked different brands of rum. It really wasn’t that informative and if I could have I would have ranked all the rum as “absolutely terrible.” Turns out I have fairly good taste in rum though. 

Today we left Eladio’s for our 9.25 mile hike to Pocosol. I started the hike with N again. The first part of the hike was so steep I had to use my hands to pull myself up, and my legs weren’t really long enough to scale all the big steps. I began feeling pretty dehydrated after the first hill and had to drop back. I took it easy and ended up feeling pretty healthy by the end of the BIG HILL (Johel warned us that this part was pretty difficult, and advised us to have a “heavy snack” once we got to the top). I felt 100% better after eating my heavy snack and was able to make good time down the hill. I caught up with N again and we finished the hike together. About ten minutes from our destination, we came upon a beautiful lake, that actually reminded me a lot of lakes I’ve seen in the States. Some people jumped in and were swimming, but N and I decided to make it to the end first. We were greeted at the end of the upward slope with a magnificent view of the misty rainforest, a tree full of odd hanging nests, and a large and inviting wooden dorm building with a mural on the side. The forest looked exactly how I’d imagined a rain forest to look, with layers of trees in varying shades of green fading off into the distance and got swallowed by the mist.