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finally a sembreak worth talking about.Since grade school & high school, sembreak had always been just mere week off from school. sometimes just an extended weekend. nothing much happens, nothing to expect.
Dumaguete
this year however, it's been nothing like what it used to be. first week of from classes and theres just been so much to do. the guys(papi, francis, john and..erhm jegar) went to fontana for the "getaway" it was great having the whole waterpark almost to ourselves. by the end of the week i left for dumaguete. NDC.. national debate championships(or was it competition..?i really dont know) well anyway it was the first debate thing ive ever been apart of. most of thhe time ive just stuck to bringing my sister to her HS tournaments and watching. we stayed at south sea resort which was pretty cool. we had the pool right besyd our room which was good coz there wasnt a beach that you could go to. ironinc coz we were just besyd the shore. anyway, it was a great experience and a morale booster at that. seeing that so many college debaters suck more than i do made me want to debate next tournament and whoop their asses. not that im good or anything, but i think people who went through at least the 4th yr, 3rd trimster debate course in AHS would be able to do better. ghaah. but sadly i dnt debate. i was part of Team ADJ(adudicators..me, cheng, myke chan, jian and jan)it was nevertheless a fun experience. we made our way from being a pannel to chair.. then UP-M had a 100% break for adjs and then 3 of us made it to the quarters round.. i believe it was a great tourney for UP-M, almost all the teams broke into the octo's but coz of the team cap thing, only 4 of the teams were allowed to go on. then what was even more amazng,although not surprising was that UP-M A&B made it to the finals. although ateneo won, they did very well and deserved to be on stage. Ow, aside from adj-ing we were also mandatorily entered into the public speaking competition> was lapu_lapu really brave or just plain inhospitable..? That was my first topic. thanks to the Goldfinger and history 1 i managed to finish the 4 mins on stage. not only that, it even got me into the finals.. geez...Cheng and theresa also made it to the top ten, buti was in a different room so i wasnt able to listen to what they said. During the finals night we were in front of a stage almost as big as the Irwin theatre in ateneo, for those who havnt been there, imagine a movie house jam packed with people. thats how big the crowd was. at first i was a bit cool about it, even excited. but as the first few speakers began, nervousness started seeping into me. typical though before i make any speech for class or begin a soccer or basketball game, i always feel like throwing up, although i never really throw up or anything. once i was up there i was overwhlmed by the sheer number of people. i had a long intro prepared for my speech considering i had not much to say about my topic(this house believes spraynets should be mandatorily inposed on women) but then i forgot almost half of the damn intro. but once i got passed the nervouseness, and managed to get laughter from the damn stuck up audience it was smooth sailing. just before i wraped up the speech, i looked far out into the crowd and being on stage with hundreds of people listening felt really great, i wish i dnt have to leave. the trip was great, exept for some last minute (how should i call it?) complications... but still, i have to say i had fun, and i loved hangin out with the circle.
*** ow i forot to mention the superferry trip to dumaguete, not a bad ship actually. shitty part though was when Bojit and i were rationing cigs coz both of us forgot to pack our own to last 3 days..we had to beg yves for a pack..thank heavens myke joined us in cebu to replenish our supply. Geez, the freaking ship charges p65 for a pack or marlboro reds! no way jose! accomodations wasnt that bad, there were curtains pillows sheets and blankets ow most important of all aircon! hahahagoing on..
But sembreak didnt just end there. i got to bed around 630 am, then had to wake up at 9 coz we were going to siargao for the surfing trip. imagine having to wake up with a really bad hangover, take a bath, pack up and leave with out getting anybreakfast or drink at least. from dumaguete we took a boat to sibulan then from there took a van to cebu. it was 3-4 hour grueling & butt aching ride. somewhere in cebu, we had to stop over for the "van experience"( yves, kae ethel and gabe will surely never forget it like i wont). we stayed in cebu for about half a day. it wasnt far from what you see in manila. dirty,bad traffic and polution too. there wasnt much of a choice where to eat so we spent the rest of the day in SM cebu. from there we took a ship(the "cokaliong" experience) to surigao. damn that ship. proletariat accomodations talaga. i had to sleep on a matress with no linen, no pillow and no privacy. damn that ship!!! from suriago we took another boat to siargao. even though it was really stressful, the trip from dumaguete to siargao was a great experience. forget the painstakiung journey, it was fun to tour part of our country & experiance different places.
Siargao
Surfers heaven! there is no other place in the Phils where you would find waves around 7-8 feet on a normal day. when we got to siargao, we took the "habal-habal"(its a motorcycle but people call it habalhabal coz in the local language it refers to dogs having sex and thats what it looks like when you have 3-4 or even 5 people sitting in a row on a motorbike) to Gen Luna, the part of the island where there are great surfs. we spent 3 days and 2 nights there. i should mix a mestiza some time.. one of the popular drinks there..it tastes so God damn bad and hits you so damn strong. anyway, on to surfing.. i managed to learn how to get up on a surf board and stay standing for a few seconds.. its easier to ridew the wave crouching but its not much fun. the beach there(cloud 9..named after the choco bar that wont sponsor them) was really rock. we got so many cuts on our feet walking back to shore or when we got wiped out. miguel really got it bad on those rocks. aside from surfing, we went island hoping too. there was this island there that you could walk around in 5 mins.. if it wasnt rocky on on side you could even run around it in about a minute. it was really nice and how the coconut trees pop up was perfect. you could walk for more than a hundred meters and the water would only be waist deep. the sand was white and fine and fun to walk on. there was naked island.. actually its just a sand bar that would still be around even on high tide.it was about as big as a basketball court. it was fun to hand out there, especially when your near shore then opposing waves would crash into each other and we'd get caught in the middle.
from gen luna, miguel's relatives picked us up and we took a pump boat to sta fe, a neighboring town in siargao. like most towns in siargao, it was a fishing village. you could just imagin the kind of food they served there.. lobsters, big fish, sea urchins and more. the beach there was nice too.. long streches of white sand.. and snorkling there was great.. there were alot of cute fish in the deeper parts.it was fun to dive 15 ft and be amazed by all the underwater lifeforms and fihies.to bad i dnt see nemo. we spent a good 3 days there. the locals were really cool. on time we went drinkng by the beach and i've never seen a clearer sky than when i lay down to watch the stars that night. on the 3rd day we took a van back to dapa, the main prot to take us back to surigao. we spent another night in surigao before finally goin back to manila. but we couldnt leave that easily. my last minute jinx had to kick in, and the trike we were riding just had to encounter major gear problems and we almost ddnt have time to check in our stuff. if thats not bad enough,complications with the airline ticket came up. they said we were booked for friday but the tickets we got were for a thursday.. stress, i dnt wanna have to stay another night coz i dnt have much cash nemore. but finally all was cleared and flew back to manila. home sweet home, back to the city life.
but just to make sure i got darker( theres a high expectation from ppl to see me get dark when i get back to school) i spent saturday lying uner the sun in fontana:P
it's been a SemGreat! nevermind the mishaps along thae way, those were the things you laugh at ones you got through them.
ENROLLMENT TOMORROW! YIKES TUITION INCREASE haha tangina UP kaseh
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