Raining season is back?

Since I left Panama in mid December it wasn't raining here. Not even a one rain drop. On one side it means, that the temperature is a little bit higher (around 35 degrees, but at Seminario Introductorio we got 41), which is not very pleasant for me, on the other hand I don't want to complain, because I know, what is expecting me, when the raining season will start again. The temperatures will be around 30 degrees, but the humidity will be reaching almost 100%, and when it starts raining, the air is so heavy, that it is hard to breathe and you can see the drops of sweat appearing at your body... Therefore I am OK with the weather right now and trying to ignore the high temperatures...
The question is, for how long, because yesterday it rained. Actually it wasn't rain, it was monsoon. After the rain I realized, how good weather was the whole January and February. People told me, that the raining season should start at the end of April, so I really hope they are right.

Seminario Introductorio

The second introductory seminar in Panama since I came to Central America. The first one was at the end of September and hopefully this LC will not need another member recruitment until next march and they will retain the newies they just recruited.

Again it was the 2-day conference at the same place as last time, so we already knew the site. But it was very nice surprise for me to see the site during the dry season - it looks much nicer, when there is no rain.

Out of 20 invited newies only 14 came and we had to wait ("surprisingly") for some of them, so we started late ("surprisingly"), but within few sessions we got back on track. As Martin came from Costa Rica, there were 4 MC members at the conference - almost as many as at regional conferences... There is still chance, that at last conference in CAS (end of May - 10 days before the term ends) we will meet as whole team at one place... The EB members were good facilitators (for many of them it was first facilitating experience) and with support of the MC the sessions went quite well. During the day we got into small delay, but don't remember many conferences, where this didn't happen, so we were ready for that and adjusted the sessions based on the current reality.

Two interesting moments of the conference were definitely the football match during the lunch break:

and the evening culture shock game - Albatross:

And of course - the party...
As the parties are important part of each conference and there are several drinking games, which all of us know very well, we decided to keep the tradition and teach some drinking games also to newies. And it was quite successful, although it was not a typical drinking game from AIESEC conferences. Based on the pictures I am quite sure, that you will recognize, which game we played...

All people enjoyed the game, they just have problems saying "Machacek" and so there were many other names for this game such as "Hashish"...