leadership training seminar

we had our annual leadership training seminar today and it was loads of fun. id be lying if i say i like it better than last year because the truth is, i liked it better last year. but i liked the participants this year the most because they were all cool except for a couple of shelled freshmen and sophomore. i admit that when i first heard that kuya marty and co. aren't our facilitators, i was a bit isappointed but when i met sir cip and mrs. p, they were also as cool.

the first thing they made us do was kind of the usual stuff, the ones the facis made us do for four years. and that is to write our expectations, from the seminar, the facis and our co-participants. i didn't quite enjoy it even if i was the reporter. after that, sir cip made us draw a symbol that would represent ourself and i drew a
pen and a crumpled paper for mine. then they made us share it with our group members. i also didn't enjoy that activity. after the reccess came the fun! we were all blindfolded and they made us walk all around the soccer and soccerbaseball field like freaks. it was quite of exhilarating but we all had fun. it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for me. i know it sounds cheesy but it's true. after that we had lunch break.i was kind of tired during lunchbreak. but i had to keep my lethargy to myself because i had isymae come over so she could fit the gown she would wear tomorrow for the bb.agham pictorial. and we would also be making her costume since i had this really formidble stupid dream about aunt vanessa totally dishing me
out because i attempted to borrow her wedding dress. but enough about that...she really looked very elegant in the golden prom gown of panyang. and it complimented her beauty a lot.

so we went back to school and we were sort of late for the reactions and sharing of the things u learned on the previous activity. i thought the afternoon wasn't going to be a lot of fun but what happened was the exact opposite. our first activity was trying to maintain this little peace of cotton from touchin the ground and we
sort of like have to blow it up. and we were all like "hoooooooo" francis even tried to kick it up and ended up kicking someone else's face instead! twas so hilarious! after three rounds, our group emerged VICTORIOUS! huh! in their faces!

after that, kuya cip gave us instructions about our last activity. i was disappointed because hello..."ONLY two activities for one whole frickin afternoon?" and the instructions were kind of complicated and i really didn't get the jist. so after that, mr. cip gave us 15 minutes to plan and we talked about how we were going to accomplish the tasks. the first task was all of us to get through an "electric square" and if a part of you touched it, the group has to do it over again. the second task was to get inside the building through stepping on folders and if u fell or ur foot touched the ground, which is "toxic" someone has to carry you and we don't want that to happen. the third and final task is to build a tower building of glasses with 17 plastic cups on the bottom without TALKING. we all assumed the electric square sir was refering to was the oval stage so we never got to plan on how to accomplish that one. we all focused on how to accomplish the second one.

after the planning, we went inside to start our first missions and found out what stupid maniacs we all have been. the electric square wasn't the oval stage, it was a small square made of rope. we all kind of panicked because we had doubts if mardi, who is kind of big, would fit in. but still we tried. but then we failed because someone always touched the "electric" side. it was kind of drizzling so sir cip said we could proceed to the next task without completing the frst one. the second task, which we thought was the most difficult among the three turned out to be the easiest! i was so bummed because we focused all our 15 minutes on that one. so when we finished our second task we proceeded to the third. it wasn't really hard. well for me, who wasn't involved in the contstruction wasn't but i think it was for those whobuilt it. they almost finish and the building falls, then it happens over and over again.

but we also had fun, those we weren't building. we were having fun making hooting noises since we couldn't talk we sort of built this bonding between us and the juniors. i liked the seminar a lot because i had fun and learned at the same time. the things i learned, i already learned but i guess a new perspective will dome good sometimes. hmm...i'll surely keep my last LTS a memory that would serve a lifetime!