I LOVE Spanish girls with that accent . <| sep |> Recently had a buttermilk pancake from satsuma . It was great ! <| sep |> That ' s just the first arena . I ' d assume that most arenas do try to provide several different areas to keep things interesting , but there ' s no rule about that . The second arena was all tropical forest , Katniss even mentions in the book that it put a lot of the tributes at an immediate disadvantage as most of them would have never had an opportunity to learn how to swim . Past Games saw arenas that were nothing but frozen tundra , scraggly wastelands , you name it . It ' s incredibly random and the Tributes had no real way to predict where they ' d end up and how to prepare for it . The equipment had a huge random element to it as well , you couldn ' t count on being able to use a certain weapon or live off supplies from the cornucopia as there was no guarantee those things would be provided . Katniss was insanely lucky in her first Games that she was pretty much in her element the entire time . While she was still highly skilled , she didn ' t have the variety in her abilities that some of her foes did , and she ' d have been at an acute disadvantage if she had wound up in a different arena the first time around . This could all be evidence for the ' Katniss was always supposed to be the Mockingjay ' theory as well .