Week 2: "Buwan ng Wika" at Lyceum for the first time—sleepless nights!

                        Since it's my first year at Lyceum, it's also my or rather our first time to celebrate "buwan ng wika", together with the upper-class men, here at Lyceum. And I can say that it's a SUCCESS!! 'Cause though we haven't won anything, most of the winners are from the College of Arts & Sciences—our department—and that's a victory for all of us!

                        MMA 1-1's contribution is to put-up a booth—booth exhibit—wherein we should provide a compilation of Award-Winning Filipino produced movies—back from the very first Filipino produced movie. AB Communication students provided the video presentation and we, MMA students arranged and decorated the booth. We did all that we can to beautify the booth and make it presentable and attractive enough for the viewers. But unfortunately and as usually, there are always bad comments—negative ones—that were heard from the viewers, but I just thought that it's part of being an artist, we just have to accept and improve more. But on the contrary, there are still compliments, praises that were given by some of the viewers, mostly Ate's and Kuya's, hahaha, and a very heart-warming tap on the back. :) All-in-all, it's a great experience to reminisce someday. Though we haven't won the title for the best booth. :(
                        Other than the booth exhibit, we also participated on the Folk Dance Competition. Wherein we performed the Folk Dance: "La Jota Moncadeña" that was originated from Cavite, Laguna. We dressed like vintage people with Castanettes as props, and enjoyed the dance. Despite the projects, home works and lack of skills that we come across while practicing for the dance, I'm proud to say that we did well. Considering the fact that we're not dancers or professional ones to learn and eventually perform a very complicated dance routine—especially folk dance—we did our best to show everybody what we have, and enjoyed the dance. We may not be the winner but for us, even before the competition start, we already won. The experiences, bonding-time, skills that are newly learned, friends that became closer are the prizes we received.  And actually, that's the greatest gift we've ever had and longed to have!
                        Luckily, I've enjoyed the program that was held on last friday, 26th of August 2011, though I'm like a Zombie for having just an hour sleep. We laughed, clapped and congratulated the winners—which almost all, are from the CAS Dept.—that made us proud to be in this department (Ha Ha!). Of course, we enjoyed the "Lakan and Lakambini 2011" as well, the candidates are all entertaining, honestly, they kept me awake during the program—thanks to them! It was a great competition!
                       Generally, the program is a SUCCESS!(for the second time though) Everyone enjoyed it, gained a lot from it, though not everyone gained a material prize, but we know in ourselves that we gained more than what we expected. We learned so much things and will grow from our downfalls. It's not always about winning a prize, it's all about learning, progressing and growing. Aiming for a better prize, not just material prize, but a long-lasting one.