Our first bags first
The first is always the most remarkable of all experiences, most of us say. Perhaps, this is due to the fact that the feeling of joining in a challenge and being recognized for the first time is indescribable, thus, making the experience incomparable. This has been what I felt when I bore my first child, was commended for the very first time by my exacting superior, and those other firsts which had come to my life and brought me a lot of pleasant reminiscences of the past.
Then here is another first to add in the list. This came to me and every member of the Torch keeper staff as the 2010 Division Schools Press Conference culminated. It was so unexpected, so exhilarating.
I, together with Ms. Belardo, have just debuted in joining a press conference. Going through journalistic writing and organizing staff members for the competition was a great headache. The preparation itself was totally exhausting that I have, almost, given up especially when I realized that what we have accomplished was infected by a certain type of virus. My staff could not do anything but repeat the process. Good thing, there was a helping of pansit guisado and pieces of fried sharksfin which saw us through (Thanks, to the principal).
First day of the competition, no formal notice was provided for the participants, so we were ignorant of what was going on. We missed a lecture for the first two categories and we learned our lesson, thus, we became vigilant.
Second day of the competition, I had to temporarily leave my staff in Binangonan under the supervision of Mr. Gagote, school paper adviser of the elementary department, in order to accompany Jeff, our representative in an oratorical competition to be held in Taytay, at the very time that the staff and I were trying to finish the blue print of our paper which would seal our participation in the Press Con. I left though with a duty for every staff member to accomplish.
Oration time, Jeff won the 2nd place, a .33% advantage by the opponent. The trophy for the coach enlivened me. Then, I was on my way back to the Press Con.
The unfinished blue print greeted me at the quarter when I arrived. I set back to work. The staff was with me all the way cutting, rewriting and pasting each piece of the paper on the frame.
Closing program which was set at 3:00 P.M. on the last day, came earlier. Last hour before the awarding, 10:00 A.M., the blue print which would determine our participation in the competition was, still, two columns away from its full form.
Fifteen minutes before the awarding began, I, with Mr. Noli Gagote, rushed through the corridors and submitted the painstakingly done blue print to the officer-in-charge.
Awarding ceremony, out of more than two hundred participants, only fifteen of them for each category would be recognized. We lost in other categories but we managed to draw the judges’ favor in sports writing, 1st place, radio broadcasting, 4th place, and infomercial, 2nd place.
Great relief, we won! No challenge is great to a TUMCSian was proven to be true. What a first time! we feel so blessed.
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