Panamanian wedding

Last Friday Franklin told me, that his cousin is getting married the next day and that it is at 7pm. I told myself, OK, not a problem, I can stay at home and work or read a book or do something else.

The next day, it was around the half past five, I went to the living room, to spend some time with Franklin's family before they leave to wedding. Franklin told me again, that they are going to the wedding (I wasn't sure, if he forgot, that he told me before) and then he just mentioned: Yeah and I think you should know it - you are going with us..." Well - it was kind of surprising for me, but why not - I was curious, how it looks here.

Later I was told, that here usually people marry in church, but this wedding will be a civil one, which means, that it won't be as formal. And that at the party after the formalities there will be lot of music, so I should prepare myself for dancing... Well - I am getting used to the fact, that this is very usual pleasure activity - where are good old Zizkov pubs, where you can just sit with friends and talk (and of course have a good czech beer)...

Right in the moment, when we came to the place, I fall in love with it - we were all the time in the garden with swimming pool, in the corner of the garden was bar, where they served drinks (beer, soft drinks, cocktails), as it was 8 in the evening, the temperature was ideal (around 25 degrees). People were coming and coming and before 9 there were around 60 people. The ceremony could start.

As I wrote, it was civil wedding, so the whole ceremony was managed by attorney, it was pretty much the same as in Slovakia, or at least it looked - I have no idea, what they were talking about, as I still don't understand Spanish. The whole ceremony was finished by sect (in such occasions I do exceptions and drink such drinks, but it just assured me, that my attitude towards vine and sect is still the same - I hate it). And one more thing was quite surprising for me, stay tuned for the next "choques del dia" post.

After the ceremony the informal fun started, I was tought the dance called merenge. At the beginning it looked quite easy, but then I did mistake and looked to the pair dancing next to us. When I saw the step and figures, I realized, that this will be very hard year for me.

Slowly I was getting the feeling, that nothing will surprise me at the wedding and that it would be very similar to what I saw in Slovakia. Then I realized, that in the house few people were watching boxing, which was projected on the wall trough beamer. I told myself, that few men are bored by wedding and went to watch sports... But there were still more and more people and in a while most of the wedding guests took their chairs and moved them close to the screen. Later I was told, that there is world champion match in superlight weight (130 pounds - something around 60 kg)and a Panamanian is fighting against Venezuelan. When the match started, around 50 people out of 60 were watching boxing - I have a feeling, that I saw even the newly married couple watching the match... Well - the habits are a bit different.