Speech Choir Competition

Speech Choir and Ignite Competition

Ah the Speech Choir competition, so stressful. We didn’t have that much time to prepare for this competition since we had the floats to worry about and we also had projects to handle, but we still managed to do our very best.

We only had at least two weeks (?) to spare for practice and during those two weeks, most of the class aren’t really present for practice which leads us to accomplishing absolutely almost nothing. It’s a good thing that we finally got out stuff together and worked as a team.

Most of our problems were because we had nowhere to practice and we don’t want to risk other blocks seeing our presentations and stealing our movements, so we had to look for other places. This leads us to another blockmate’s home – which isn’t really that near and this causes yet another problem because another block that consists of only 6-7 students is merged with us and though it’s fine with us (ABMA 153) to go to other places because it’s already familiar to us, it’s not fine with the merged block because they haven’t been there before.

These problems could be resolved though, since we still practice for the speech choir during class hours which makes up lost time they consumed not being able to practice anywhere else.

Now on the day of the presentation, I think we weren’t really all that nervous, we just wanted it over with. Now don’t get me wrong, we are all excited to perform but we also know that we wouldn’t win against ECE and CPE since they won last time during the chants and cheers competition a while back.

And our predictions were right, ECE won the second place and CPE won the first place. Now we’re not being salty or anything here, we’re all happy for them. This experience serves as a lesson for us to learn, we had to just try harder the next time around. Besides, two of our blockmates won third place  and second place for the Ignite Speech and the Integrity Speech respectively.

SoMA Week

SoMA Week celebration

Ever since I first heard about this certain week, I just couldn’t contain my excitement because I was so eager to join such a wonderful event at APC. And as the third term started, I was more than prepared to face the SoMA week.

Now a few weeks into the third term, we were required to make a float. Simple as that - well, maybe not so simple. You see, actually making a float was extremely hard and time consuming. Though it may be tiring, it can also be enjoyable since you get to work as a team with your blockmates.

Our block was separated into two groups – Group A and Group B. The theme for the floats is “Filipino Myths and Legends”, or somewhere along that line. Since we are still just one block, we decided to match each other’s floats, meaning that the way our floats should be designed should be related to the other.

Now fast forward through weeks and weeks of hard work, buying materials, painting, and many more, we finally finished our floats and now all we need to do is to cook up a simple performance. And again, our performances overlap each other because we still consider ourselves as one team regardless of being separated into two groups.

On the first day of the SoMA Week- or should I say, SoMA Days – was the day of the float parade. Thank goodness it wasn’t that hot outside or else we could’ve all died (just kidding). We had to parade our floats from the APC parking lot to the end of Lapu-Lapu St. and from there, we had to take our floats back to the parking lot for display. Once we finished the parade, we had to get ready for our performance, which I personally thought was the best performance out of all the others.

Now on the third and last day of SoMA Week, the winners of the float parade were announced. The results made us all happy and sad at the same time. We won the second place – both groups A and B from ABMA 153.

But the most important thing to all of us is that we got to enjoy our first SoMA celebration with each other. And so we partied all night – well, only until 9 pm – at the BOMBA night where students get to bring out their wild side and dance to the beat.