COCAS 07

Most probably the last conference, where I played active role... We have another meeting in May (CasGo - planning meeting), but as I heard, it is small meeting, where only EB members and MC meet, which means around 15 - 20 people. By that I don't want to say, that COCAS was somehow big, there were around 25 delegates, little bit more than 30 people at whole site... I miss 200 people conferences (managing around 35 trainings delivered by alumni in three blocks, having TopAlky competition of 16 teams, needing microphone at the plenary...).

But still COCAS was quite a good conference. The site again surprised me, but this time, it was a little bit different - no pool, no open space plenary, no amazing meetings rooms. Site was situated in Costa-rican mountains, so it was relatively cold there - sometimes I had to take something with long sleeves and long pants. And if I was sometimes cold (when the temperature dropped under 20 degrees), can you imagine delegates from Panama, where at that time was around 35 degrees?

But the real surprise came during the night, when we were not able to find blankets and the whole MC was sleeping in sweaters, long pants, caps... and still we all were cold. I assume the temperature dropped to around 10 degrees, which was too much even for me and Marting (Canada). Even more interesting was the morning, when Magaly finally found the blankets...

Another specific of this conference, was the Czecho-slovak presence at the conference. I mentioned, that I met an AIESEC alumnus from Slovakia, who was in the Costarican MC few years ago. We met again, as Zana was chairing our conference and plus there were 50% of all CAS trainees (=1) at the conference (=Premek). And you can guess, what we have done at the first party...

Buchana!

Also the second party was a cool one - OC had idea of having "Graffiti party" - all delegates were supposed to bring the white T-shirt and OC brought lot of markers, colors... The outcome was impressive:

We have finished the conference with official dinner - after awarding LCs and having dinner we had approximately one hour of picture making...:

And of course the MC picture. And of course the incomplete MC picture. We have realized, that since the very beginning of the term we haven't met as the whole team. We were very close at this conference, but Martin had to leave the conference on the second day in the morning and Tati came in the afternoon...