Florante At Laura!!

November 30, 2010, Early morning after our short morning praise, we started to prepare ourselves for the play in CAF after the section of Catherine because we picked the second part of the story of Franciso Balagtas which is the Florante at Laura. Early morning all of us felt nervous but also excited to perform especially to those who have roles, everyone is busy in changing their clothes, putting on their make-ups, making our props and starting to move them to the St. Anne’s Hall to be ready to use, buying Cartolinas and pins in the bookstore, styling their hairs and many more, even me I am busy changing my clothes and putting on make-ups that would fit to me as one of the “ tsismosas” during the time of Florante at Laura. One funny thing that I realized while I am changing my clothes into a ruffled white dress and when I looked on the mirror, I laughed at myself because I looked like an old woman but I don’t have a choice but to wear it because it is already our final play and I don’t have enough time to change and look for another dress, I am thinking, why are we going to wear gowns as “tismosas” during the time of Florante at Laura? Uhmmmm… I realized that instead of wearing those gowns we should wear “ Dasters” or “ Bestidas “. Before our play starts, we agreed that before starting the two plays, we must pray first and do some tension exercises in order for us not to panic backstage which is the major reason why some plays fail to win because of panic and being absent- minded but we do some exercise to lessen or overcome those tensions in ourselves. After a half hour, it is now our turn to perform , everyone is cooperating and calm when we went in all of us carried all our props and helped moving them, then we started to perform and so scenes went through smoothly but also there are times when they skip some of the characters’ lines and sometimes they don’t know where to exit and enter and also what to do but then thank you to CHRISTIE SALDANA who really worked hard to be as funny as she could as Menandro, the best friend/ classmate/ like brother and etc……, she pulled some of my classmates’ mistakes. Our Florante and Laura have the chemistry so they are comfortable to each other and they act together very well. When it is the time we need to go out as the “ tsimosas “ I really heard many people who were shocked because they can’t believe that I was one of those “ tsimosas “ and I heard that they can’t recognize me as Rhosebhet especially the 3^rd year learners and I asked myself, Is my make-up that really thick and ugly? “ Hehehheheh!! I laughed at myself just in my mind!! And then when we are about to end Florante must be captured and tied in the tree by the soldiers of Adolfo, unfortunately, the curtains didn’t close and also the lights on the right wing ( actor’s point of view ) and another is that no one was about to captured Florante so Angela and Justine take into Action in order to fill up supposed to be the dead scene because the soldiers who were supposed to capture Florante forgot to capture him so the two of them take into action and they were like tornados roaming around the stage and also our Florante probably because they don’t expect it to happen but still they coped up and the scene goes on and then after Florante’s monologue, that is the signal where we end our performance and it was successful and again we shouted because of happiness. We are very thankful to our beloved directress who is really following up the characters and the crew about the progress of our play. And we are really proud of her!!! THANK YOU, PRINCESS!!!

Shakuntala!!

December 2, 2010 before lunch we performed our play which is Shakuntala!! before that we are so excited as well as nervous because we realized that after all of our practices and props making, preparing all the things needed during the play, we are now going to paerform it with all our gbest and seriously. At about 8:00 after our short morning praise, we lined-up outside our classrooms and we proceeded to theSt. Anne's Hall to watch the play of St. Catherine which s Anastasia and even not reaching the middle part, we all vacated and went to our classroom to prepare ourselves for our play after the St. Catherine, so all of us are crowded there inside the classrooms changing our clothes and putting our make-ups on our faces and others are carrying the props tothe St. Anne's Hall in order for us not to panic if it is our turn already so we are carrying the props one by one. Then after, plays of the St. Catherine and Elizabeth we went to the GAllery beside the ST. Anne's Hall to pray first there and have some Tension excercises in order for us not to be so tense when it is already our turn........ Finally, we went inside to prepare our props and the settings while our actresses are rehearsing their lines inside the Dressing room. Then, after 3-5 minutes we started our play and the dancers danced but unfortunately, some of them are laughing as if it is a joke dancing during our play so we are very disappointed because of that but still the show must go on. Then, we proceeded to the other scenes until tghe love dance started and by the time when they went inside the hut, the careless whisper song started to play and the hut was shaking violently and so I was shocked because I never thought about it so I just laughed backstage wearing my ridiculous outfit as a deer... adn then I was roaming around going back and forth, arranging and moving the props and then going up,where the backdrops are located, waiting to shower on the pieces of crepe papers for the wedding scene but before that I act first as a thin and small deer carried by Dushyanta played by Mikad Trabajo and when she went out the stage they were like shouting " Woah " as if they were shocked because Mikah is carrying me that time but I didn't mind them and still I played dead without moving up the stage like a dead statue. Near the ending, the family of Shakuntala that was played by Angela Gorriceta, were like celebrating after all her son finally met his father and they lived happily together and they organized a celebration where in some of the minor characters went out the stage just to eat lechon baboy and manok and act as if they were part of the scene. After that, our play ended successfully and because of happiness we shouted back stage and finally have the curtain call where all of us danced as we were introduced by Karla Oteda with the song Jaiho!!! Yehey!!!! We made it and after that the guest schools asked us if they can take a picture with us and so we smiled and said cheese!!!! WELL DONE ST. ANNE!!!!!!! KEEP IT UP!!!! CONGRATS!!!!! HEHEHEHE!!! :D

Moments going to downtown!! :D

Yesterday, November 22, 2010! Me and Mandee Bernadas were tasked to go to downtown and buy some props from there especially the gold cloth that is 3 meters and worth 23 pesos per meter along with the cloth are the brown paint and 3 pieces of dark green cartolina. First, we traveled from school to YMCA and then we rode the Bo. Obrero jeepney going to Taylay near the Central Public Market, when we arrived there, I immediately asked the saleslady if what is the cheapest cloth and then she said " Gena Cloth " so I said if we can see it and then we saw it and then we asked for the gold gena cloth. After that, we walked from Taylay going to Ace Hardware to buy a can of Mahogany paint but before that we went to the school supplies area and we looked for 3 pieces of dark green cartolina but unfortunately, we didn't find one, so we went to Ace Hardware and there find the paint. After that, we went to Atrium and look again for the darek green cartolina and there at last we found but unfortunately again, it lacks 1 but we dicided to buy the two and just go home, anyway, we are tired of walking. And lastly, we went to school to get our baga but the moment we entered the campus we were terrified because the campus was so dark and there's no one there excpet for dormers who were eating their dinner at the Refectory so when we wen tin to get our bags near the Casa Santa we noticed a lady walikg and as if she is floating in the air and my hair in my arms went up and so I ran away so fast going to the growth community office. We are about to ask Ms. Talaman to help us get our bags but we saw Sir. Secular inside the Highschool Growth com. and so we decided that insteaed of Ms. Talaman it will be sir. Heheheheh!!.. :D So we successfully got our bags and we went home exhausted.!!!!

Social Studies' Project!!! :)))

Last Saturday, October 16,2010, I made my project in Social Studies, which is a diorama and it is about the country of Sri Lanka and believe me I had a hard time doing that project but I made it within two days, actually it is not hard but in my case without any printer at all in our home, I am having a hard time especially printing in colored files and without Internet connection at home so it is hard and very exhausting and also one major, major problem of having problem in doing my projects is that financially we are poor and I am only here because I am just a scholar here and i am very grateful for that golden opportunity in havingthe gift of Assumption Education especially to us who are in great need of a scholarship. Each of that bondpaper costs P 15.00 each in colored and P 5.00 in black and white maybe to rich families it is just a small amount but for us poor families it is a great sacrifice just for projects but it is okay as long as it is in project or assignment purposes. And of course, I will not forget what happened to me when I brought that diorama with me in school last Monday!! I am full of bags beacuse it is the day when we have our swimming class and the day of submitting several projects like social studies, statistics and etc. I also brought plants beacuse I thought we willm present our investigatory project nut then again my thoughts are wrong. :DDDDD

Tumbling!!! :))

The last days of our PE Class we have our tumblings and stunts and believe we have a hard tim practicing all those tumblings and stunts but not me I'm not boasting but I learned fast because I'm into fir dancing so I am flexible. As we are doing the tumblings I'm just observing my classsmates doing those tumblings and as I looked at their facial expressions thy really did their best to make their bodies more flexibl especially those who have a very healthy body, They can't afford to bring their bodies up and be so flexible so for me being small and thin is a blwessing beacuse I can do things that healthy and chubby persons can't. So I really enjoyed doing th tumblings and stunts especially when they lift me up and do stunts up there as if we are doing cheer dancing!!! Hhehehhehhehe!! :D

Examinatins......... Hewwww!!! At last done!!! :)

October 7-9, 2010!!! Our Examination Days!! First Day: Math, Science and Journalism; I admit that even though I love Biology it's very difficult because I felt my brain would shrink, actually, it was not that really difficult instead time pressures us especially the exam was very long so we find it difficult because we need to run after the limited time which is I think at about 1 hour so many of us didn't finish the exam but still I made it to the finish line but the funny thing is that I am not sure if all of my answers are correct because some of my answers are just guessed, heheheheheh :D. Math was not that hard but kind of easy for me now because the exam given to us is short that all of us made it to the finish line, hehhehehe :))). And the Journalism was that kind of easy also especially because it is all in multiple choice so we don't need to think that much harder because we have choices to choose from. Second Day: Statistics, Social Studies and CLE; Our Statistics exam was easy because it's just enough for us to finished answering all the items. Social Studies was kind of easy also because I got to familiarized the questions in the test so it was easy for me to answer much faster. And lastly, CLE, I didn't made to finish it because the essays are so many that I need to think and write faster. Last Day: CAE and CAF. CAE for me is the most difficult among all of our tests but i made to finish it. CAf was really east!! :D

SM CITY!!!!! :D

Me, Yzabel, Aurora, Carmina and Jesselle!!! We decided to look for our CAE Play by surfing the internet to look for some best Afican- Asian Plays so we went there and believe me I waited for them almost three hours in front of the National Bookstore but when I feel I look stupid there I go inside and buy also materials for my project because I remembered it while standing alone so I went inside for a while and after I'm done I'm back again outside the store texting with Jesselle and Aurora until Jesselle came and at last I had a companion. 5 minutes later, Aurora came also and the funny thing is that we said we will meet outside the National Bookstore but instead she went inside and waited for us there, she is keep on texting on us if where are we and we said we are already there but then when we look back, we found her there laughing!! :D So when we are complete we went to Netopia and there we surf the internet but instead researching we are just chatting and laughing until our time was consumed so we didn't have enough time and money to research again. One thing that we will not forget is that when we didn't have the opportunity to come and see for Toni Gonzaga at that time in personal because we need to buy her album worth 300 but our money are just enough for food and transportation so we went home depressed but still wearing our smiles because we really enjoyed bonding and laughing together. :))))))