This was it. The big day, the big one; the time that I had been waiting and preparing myself for this entire time. This is the pivotal climax and exciting conclusion to the All-English Term and the final end of my third term and my first Academic Year in Asia Pacific College. This is the very day everybody in school, especially SoMA and SoE students, waited for; the day where all our efforts and skills accumulated during the term are put to the most rigorous and challenging tests and tribulations that cannot be ignore.
This is the All-English Term Culminating Day.
So far, that day, it is composed mainly of four segments: the introduction, the Speech Choir Competition, the Ignite Competition and the awarding ceremony. During the introduction, we are given a montage of the pasts moments of the ERC faculty being together in various occasions, hanging out, working on school projects and spending some quality time outdoors.
Fast forward to the main event of the day, the first Ignite Speaker is selected at random to present his/her speech that he/she prepared during the ignite speech as part of the PUBSPE1 finals. It would be followed by a Speech Choir presentation with a section to be selected too at random. Once picked, the section's AVP video presentation would be shown right before the actual speech choir presentation. It would be followed by the second Ignite Speaker. Afterwards, to be followed by another speech choir presentation with an AVP, and so on and so forth.
Let's talk first about my section's representative for the Ignite Speech: Giu Selle Filoteo, who I would like to call "Kim Quijano's girlfriend". (I regret nothing!) I find her speech about beauty quite interesting. In fact, that really caught my attention, especially when I have become so self-conscious of my appearance. In Selle's speech, she describes the definition of inner and outer beauty more in depth, correspondent to the PowerPoint presentation she currently delved in at the time. So, I find it to be a great means to show that beauty is pretty, either in or out, mostly in. Also, her voice is very clear and efficient, easily understandable and subtle to match the tone of her ignite speech. And her PowerPoint slides are quite creative too.
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| Giu Selle Filoteo's speech about beauty |
Next, I'm getting to the topic what you all want me to talk about: the Speech Choir from ABMA152. All I can say about our performance is that we did essentially well. Our voices are very effective, the visuals are clear and the tone of our voices are in sync and as well, serious at times. Also, I'd give plus points for the tree stick props and the cappuccino painting on the face. But I felt like while this was a good presentation, the overall performance was not too exciting or surprising to say the least. I felt like we should've taken liberties from the source material and alter it, as in go all-out and rampage, as much as possible while still being faithful to the poem "The Caged Bird" by Maya Angelou. I felt like we could've made much progress but made quite little, at least in comparison to other speech choir performances I watched.
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| ABMA152 |
Lastly, I will point out that I am very happy and very disappointed with the results of the Ignite Speech and Speech Choir competitions respectively, when the awarding ceremony came. Giu won the award of being the First Runner-Up of the Ignite Competition. I congratulated and thanked her for that; for such enthusiasm, honesty, fluency and power she let out from her voice while she was doing her job.
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| Who gave Giu the flowers, I wonder? |
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| Kim, you sneaky devil! XD |
But for our speech choir performance, we did not even make to the Top 3. But at least, all our hardwork should go somewhere. We did our best anyway not only as a whole class or group that seeks to succeed through an amount of great efforts. We worked hard as friends who rely on each other and help in times of need. Other section did so, just much better.
But it doesn't matter. As I've said in my Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? English Edition post, we're always winners in our rights and values, no matter the results we might get. As long as we struggle and work hard for it, there's at least got to something good that comes from it.
Anyway, this is the last day of my first year of college life. And unfortunately, the last moment that the good ol' ERC teachers would ever come together again as one English-oriented faculty body of friends and buddies.
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