Change

     New Year is near! People are rushing to buy 13 fruits, gifts, polka dot things, sticky food, etc. It's the time to change, not only on the outside but also in the inside. We should learn from the mistakes that we did this year and change our bad attitude/habit as we welcome the new year. The Year of the Water Dragon. So, you should already put in mind your New Year's Resolution so that you can have a Happy New Year! :)

CAF Play: Chinese Cinderella

     This is the Play that we were most nervous about. You know why? We've been changing and editing our script. We changed it for four times already. And we were so stressed because we have to change again the technical script plus, we have to memorize some new lines an scenes again. And we don't have enough time left.

     We don't have a choice but to do our best 'cause it's now or never. All of my lines changed but I'm glad because it was shorter. We told ourselves to do better in our CAF Play since we lost in our CAE Play. We didn't go back and forth from the Hall to the classroom like what we did in our CAE Play 'cause we learned our lesson already.

     My tears were starting to fall when were preparing at the backstage because I was really afraid of what might happen but I tried hard to stop it. The people weren't sleeping anymore! They were wide awake and they were laughing, clapping and, we reached our goal--- to let the audience cry in the end! We were rejoicing and crying after we performed because it seems that we have a chance to win in this Play even if we haven't practiced that much and after all the things that happened to us as a class, we didn't expect this to happen. 

     December 2 came and I had mixed emotions--- excited, nervous, curious, lazy. When the awarding started, my hands were so wet and even though it was cold, I was sweating. When the awards for the CAF Play came, my jaw was chattering like I was in the middle of an ice cold pool. I was really shocked when I heard my name as one of the "Bagong Tuklas na Aktres sa papel ng lalaki". I didn't know what to do and I was overwhelmed. When I got up the stage, I feel like my body was shaking and wobbly like the scarecrow in the Play "The Yellow Brick Road". When they were about to announce the winner already, we were all holding each other's hands and getting ready to jump and rejoice if ever we will hear that we really won.

     Voila! WE WON! St. Elizabeth really won! And we heard that right. Thank God! He answered all our prayers that we will win since we lost already. That really made my day. Congratulations to myself, to my classmates and to the whole High school Department ☺

CAE Play: Anna and the King

     We were ready to present already for the Pre-judging last November 26. Unfortunately it was moved to November 28. We were all disappointed because we have to wait and we want it to finish already but we can't change that.
     Before we got to present, we came back and forth from the hall to the classroom because we forgot some things, etc. And Marianne said that it was bad luck, so we stayed outside the hall. We haven't got the chance to watch the St. Catherine perform but for our Play's sake, we just kept watch of our props and entertained ourselves outside the Hall waiting for our turn.
     When we presented, we saw some people sleeping and not paying attention and I think that's so rude. And after we presented, they immediately announced the winners. I think that's so harsh. We haven't even gotten out of the backstage. St. Catherine won and it was okay to me but when we got to the classroom and I saw Isza going wild and crying, I was affected by that and I started crying too. I was not mad at St. Catherine because they won, it's because of how they announced the winners. I think they should've given time for us to finish backstage or at least to cool off or to calm ourselves after our performance. It doesn't matter now, because that happened already. Past is past. So be it.