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.