2 - Chants and Cheers Part II

Woohooo!! Chants and Cheers is already finished, I have mixed feeling, happy because finally it is already done! But at the same time I don't want to end it because I don't want to start regular classes where you will discuss, discuss, discuss, not only for two hours but for four hours! Because before, we only discuss for a few minutes or an hour and then we will take a break for thirty minutes and the rest of the time we will just practice. Well I guess all things come to an end, and the Chants and Cheers need to say goodbye, it was a nice experience though, even though my block mates are really naughty, at the end we really had fun and besides it is our first competition as a whole block. My previous blog post is all about negative stuffs but as they say first impression doesn't really last. 

The night before the competition we are already cramming, we practiced at the auditorium for two hours but there is really no improvement so I already lost hope in winning, we even joke about our place because we are the 7th group that will performed out of eight, we will be at the 7th place. But at the night before the competition we fixed our cheer and all the boys got serious, wow just wow! We just had fun and they add some new steps and the best choreography for the song "Nae Nae" and the best finale for our cheer WOW! Our last song is "One thing" by One Direction but we edited the lyrics and we have our own "Mis-direction" group, they are really funny. 

June 24, 2015. The Big Day! Our call time is 6:30 am, I thought I'm already late but I'am not, unfortunately my block mates didn't follow the call time. The competition should start at 8 am but it became 9:30, thank God! Because one of the group have a class till' 9:30 so the professor postponed it. It is an advantage that they postponed it because we are not yet ready, we don't have face paint and the Mis-direction is not yet prepared so we cram again. Gladly we have enough time to do all this and practice fore three more times. When the competition started we really thought the other blocks are really good but I guess not. I had a chance inside me that we will win because our cheer is really good compared to them. So the other six groups performed and then it's already our turn, like OMG we are all nervous because this is their first time to present in stage, in front of all the SOCSIT frosh student. They really put  their full effort and full energy on the cheer, but we forgot one song which is "Nae nae" because we are excited for the finale because it is really the best part of the cheer/ The last part, we had a lifting, our block mate, Marc, he is lifted by three boys, it is really funny and so cool and we have party poppers for our finale. 

Even though we didn't win, we know that we deserve the title because even the other blocks and other people who watched the competition really expected that we will be the champion. But it's okay, even though we didn't have the title, we know that did our best, we put our full effort, we captured the audience's heart, and of course the most important part of that is we made memories that we will never forget. This is just the first part, I hope on the coming days we will treasure every moment. 

1 - Chants and Cheers

It's been two weeks since our professor told us that we will have out first project and that is we should present a cheer. Imagine first day of my second year college life and your professor already told you that you will have your first project for this term, like wth right? It is very hard because first we only have limited time to do it and our group or block is really small, we are only 20 students so how are we able to let our voices be heard at the whole auditorium without using any mic? So we should really shout. But unfortunately I got sick, I had coughs and colds but i still shout at my block mates because they don't wanna listen and I'm like their 'ate' because I'm already second year college and most of them are freshmen. So what happened is I lost my voice, so lucky that my best friend, Letty, is here to help us so she lead us on how to make our cheer perfect and she also add some steps and ideas for our cheer to be better. It is very hard because most us are boys, we are only seven girls and it is really hard to lead boys because they don't follow us and they are like a kid because they don't follow you even though they understand you.

We finished the cheer 5 days before the competition and we memorized it 4 days before so we have no choice but to cram because we still don't have any choreography and it is not yet polished so since then we practice every night, from 5 pm to 7:30 pm. So I always go home late because of the stupid traffic at coastal and I should wake up at 5 am, so my body is really tired then you will see some of your block mates are not cooperating to your cheer so I got lazy practicing, well we all are so I promised myself that after this cheer I will sleep for 24 hours straight. kidding :)).

It is really hard especially for me because I'm an irregular student, sometimes I have a quiz for my other subjects but I can't study because I need to practice for the Chants and Cheers. And when I need to buy something for our project I don't have time because when I got home it is already late and also our block wants to spend and spend money for our props that we don't really need for our performance. And I bought our costume at Baclaran all by myself, forever alone I know, but I insisted it because there is no one else who can but it for us.

Today, June 23, the day before our competition, they are still chilling, our props are not yet finished, our cheer is not yet polished and they are still planning to put some more choreography. So good luck to us tomorrow.

On the bright side I made new friend from my new block. Like omg they are also crazy like me HAHAHA. And I also introduce them to delicious foods and also have a good price at Evangelista.