DRAMA FEST

It was really a very good experience. We never thought that it is going to be fine. First time we learned that we are going to do such things, we were really shocked when Mam. Rabago told us that we are going to make a mini drama and that we should start selecting playwrights written by Filipinos. When we learned that we are going to present it in the last week of February we told ourselves that last it is long enough for us to practice but we already start to shiver when the preliminary came. Actually, supposedly I have no role but then our director told us that everybody is going to have his own role. I was about to object about what she told us because it might be a burden for the production staff in preparing the setting and at the same time practicing for the roles that they are going to play, but then I cannot do anything because it was the directors choice. I admit it is really very hard for us even before the day of the presentation. We had all the kinds of cramming and etc. and you can hardly describe our faces during the practice. One of the hardships we have encountered was selecting the right time for the practice because most of our main characters are involved in some activities in the campus and they have to manage their time wisely and sometimes they really can’t make it for the practice, and you know practicing without the main characters is like nothing because the story really evolve in the main characters. I admit that I am not that serious in our practices. Whenever we are practicing I am just roaming around, laughing with my friends and sometimes they will scold me for not participating well and for being involve in some extra curricular activities during the practice. Heheh… and I want to say sorry about that to all my group mates. I will never forget the day when Irene and I were having some misunderstanding in scheduling the practice. I also understand her part because every weekend she has to go to Danao and it will be hard for her to travel very early from Danao to UP. At that time our classmates really stopped us but for me it is not really that big for us to forget our friendship but then we asked for forgiveness with each other and she told me that the reason why she uttered those words was because of stress cause she is also involved in some activities in school. During the last Saturday before the play we were about to practice but it was cancelled because a member cannot attend for the reason he has many things to do. The funniest thing that happened to us was the carrying of the bahay-kubo from Lahug Elementary School to UP. Well Lahug Elementary school is near we, I mean they, really have to exert much effort because of the wind. It happened when they were carrying the Bahay-kubo a very strong wind really stroke them and because of the strong wind they were about to be flown away in the midst of the street and I was not able to help because I was really dying in laughter during those times. During the presentation, our classmates were worrying that their mothers might be angry because they forgot to tell their mothers that a drama fest is going to happen and that they will be home late. But then after all the cramming we have, even during the presentation, it was all worthy because experiencing like that serves as exposure but I admit that I was really shivering during the play.