All faces flashed smiles across their faces. Haha. COngratulations to the Scribes. ;)))
Hello guys! As I promised, I'll be updating you about the contest results. Haha. And its super goooood news. :DD
I won in my categories. Almost all of us did, actually. Because of Typhoon Mareng, Baguio retreat was cancelled, but, competition is still on.
Early morning, September 9, I woke up, giddy and all smiles. I could have the best of both worlds now. Baguio retreat and Journalism contest is still on.
I arrived at the venue -- which was actually just about a kilometer away from our house-- at around 8am. I saw the other Scribes who were already there. They were all excited when they saw me. "Nandito kaaaa!" they half shouted. Apparently, they were just as upset as I was when I knew about the retreat fiasco.
First day started with a program. I honestly didn't like the venue. It was too small for the crowd and the sound system was really off. I imagined if only it was held in our school. Whew.
I could only compete in Broadcasting now, since my slot for photojournalism was already occupied. One moment I was only goofing around with everyone then next thing I know, I was competing at News writing English. One of our delegates didn't make it because of the bad weather. So for the sake of taking all chances, they made me fill in the slot.
I honestly didn't know what to do in News Writing. I wasn't even writing articles during the workshops. Good thing we had a one-hour lecture before the contest proper. I was the one who finished first. I knew it was because I honestly didn't know what I'm doing.
Second day was toxic. Radio Broadcasting will be held today. I arrived at the venue at 7am. Super early. Haha. I was really nervous and got panicky by the time the clock ticked 8am. 8:30am, the lecture started. The speaker was Mr. James (sorry, I forgot his surname. haha! =p), a former anchor of a radio program way back in the 90's. He has a reallyyyy nice voice and good sense of humor. He explained every part of the script.
11am was start of the contest proper. We went to our assigned rooms to do the the whole script for just an hour and a half. Panic crippled up to me.
Apparently, a not so nice incident happened. The scripts were supposed to be collected at 12:30, but the proctors arrived at our room 5 minutes before the time and they were already collecting the scripts. Good thing my team had finished the script. But the English team were still writing the last part. The proctor was like, "Stop that! You're not following the rules!" That made me go mad. It is her who didn't follow the rules.
I got out of the room only to be surprised to see that all of the other schools were still doing theirs. We were the only ones whom they collected. And that was super unfair!!
We told our teacher coach about it, and we were very surprised the 2 other schools also had the same problem. Apparently, the schools are the last year's runner ups, (since we were the champions! =p) Our teacher coach really fought with the teachers and demanded to get the English team's script.
But anyway, we did our thing. We performed. I was only sad with what the English team did. They didn't finish their presentation. It was around 3 in the afternoon when the whole thing ended.
So finally, here's the best part. I won 4th place in News Writing English. 4th place! Man. That was awesome. Out of 20 participants, I won 4th. haha!
And the best-est part ever -- 1st in Radio Broadcasting! Haha! I literally jumped and shouted when they said it to me. And come awarding time, when my team was called, everyone shouted "Mariang Uzisera!" (this was the name I used in broadcasting) I can't help but smile.
We also developed new camaraderie among other schools. GNC, HRA, SCA, SAAP, SRC, Dominican School.
One of the many pictures we took together with HRA, GNC and Dominican school.All in all, it was a veryyyyy nice experience we had. Unforgettable.
Up for the next fight. Division Schools Press Conference. Next level. Haha!
till the next blog~
Kristinnnnneee;p *super happy*
