25th Foundation Week: Day 1 (Mass, Confirmation, Opening of Booths, Speech Contest, Career Expo)

It was just the first day of the foundation celebration but it was already an exciting afternoon.

We always start of with a Mass, but this time it was also the Confirmation of some of the students in Veritas.

After that it was back to school for the opening of the booths and for lunch. Then I saw Mrs. Gonzales our previous principal who just retired from the job the previous school year.

After that was the Career Booths and the Career Expo from the Southville speaker. In the booth, i got a chance to talk with Southville, Informatics, FEU, PWU and MAPUA. I also got a few souvenirs.

Then before I had really finished roaming all the booths, Thea called me and said that participants to all Speech contest should go to the AVR. So we changed to our business attire and went to the AVR to watch all the SPeech Contest.

First contest was the Story Telling contest in tagalog. Second came the Extemporanoeus Speaking for the Elementary then followed by the High School.

 

Then finally it came: the Debate Competition between the 3rd Year Juniors Government with Prime Minister: Martin Candelaria; Deputy Prime Minister: Thea Salazar; Member of the Government 1: Alexei Sudario; Member of the Government 2: Christina Fermin and last Government Whip: Michelle Lojo.

We were up against the 4th Year Seniors Opposition with Leader of the Opposition: Nicole Aragones; Deputy Leader of the Opposition: Ana Binua; Member of the Opposition 1: Sarah Arceta; Memeber of the Opposition 2: Georgette Balubar and last but certainly not least Opposition Whip: Gleen Maglasang.

The motion was that "The Philippines should adapt the 2 party system in electing government officials.

It was a tough battle with intellectual arguments and facts and POI's but the government won!Best Debater was Christina Fermin and Best Whip goes to yours truly. The extemp winners were from elementary Mojah Galit the champ followed by Jeremy both from grade 6. The highschool Darwin for the second and the champ was Kristine both from the sophomores.

It was such a hectic day and intense competitions but:

Its not the winner that counts but its the participants!