Alumni dinner

Alumni in Panama have their own association, which has organized dinner for all the people interested to come. Also current members of AIESEC were invited, so I finally had chance to use my suit (I was told, that I look older in it - they would guess 28 years!!!)

We were invited to 7pm. We had a small delay, but as I realized later, 15 minutes were still ok, people were arriving till 8. And lot of people came - we were thinking, that it would be small event for max 10 people, but at the end there were around 25 alumni and around 10 AIESECers. And also the national diversity was big - Mexico, Netherlands (LC CEEDers), Denmark (one alumnus went on traineeship and supported the 30% rule of AIESEC relations and got married there), Norway, Poland (another alumnus was on a traineeship in Mexico, where he met trainee from Poland...) and Slovakia (guess who). All alumni were so surprised to see so many people from different countries there. One alumnus asked me, in which company I am working, and I explained him, that I am international member of the MC. He stayed silent for a while and then told me, that in his times something like that did not exist and that it is great. I answered, that currently it is very common and many MCs have international member. And I thought, that it is over. Hmmm. When I was explaining for the fourth time, that I am not on a traineeship, and that I am working for AIESEC, I realized, that I am so used to that idea, that for us is so common to have internationals in MC, that we don't think about the other way and that it could be different in past.

Also the founder of AIESEC Panama came, unfortunately I did not have a chance to talk to her, but Franklin(MCVP ER) used the opportunity and asked her to join our Board of Directors (accountability body of the MC). By the way Panama was founded in 1981, so in November we are going to celebrate 25 years - I just have a luck for the anniversaries.

It was nice to see these people, still excited about what is happening, still happy to see their friends. It reminded me, that I have no idea, how it will be, when I will come back to Czech Republic - will I be considered at 100% alumnus, or will I be doing something? Question to think about...