Last last weekend, my Film 114 groupmates and I shot our final project for the class. It had been quite some time since I took part in a shoot. It was the weekend before the elections and honestly for the longest time then, I barely felt like I was a film student after all.
I’ve been feeling quite disoriented and lost the past few days after losing the elections. I’m not depressed, really. I just never realized how lost it would make me feel.
See, for the past three years, I’ve gotten myself very busy with org work and student council activities. First year pa lang, I joined two organizations in Mass Comm and immersed myself in org life. The next year, I became an officer in both orgs. The next year, I got myself into the college’s student council. Now, I feel lost in a college I’m so attached to. I don’t know what to do now. I’m unsure what role I’ll play. I know there will be things in store for me. Perhaps I just didn’t prepare myself well enough about the prospect of losing that’s why I’m currently disoriented. Perhaps it’s time for me to go back to my orgs and my friends whom I’ve missed very much, and/or get myself busy with non-election STAND-UP work, and/or simply immerse myself in academic stuff and go home after my classes (LOL). I don’t know. Come what may.
Don’t worry guys, I’m okay. I simply don’t have enough time to blog these days or even show up often in Mass Comm, for reasons I might tell some other time. I’ll write my realizations and other such catharsis this weekend.
I would like to congratulate my co-candidates in STAND-UP, seven of whom won in the CMC Student Council elections. Martha Teodoro as Vice-Chairperson, Marian Santos as Treasurer, Ruth Miguel as Broadcast Communication Representative. Airah Cadiogan as Communication Research Representative, Tope Canela as Film Representative, and Jem Garcia & Carlos Maningat as Journalism Representatives. I will really miss working with you guys. I’m sure you’ll all do well.
Thank you to all who supported STAND-UP and our candidates in Mass Comm, to friends and supporters who have been present before and after the elections. I sincerely appreciate all the love and support.
Campaign period is almost over. In a way, it will be a relief. But I will surely miss all the stressful days and nights I spent with my co-candidates in STAND-UP CMC. It will be a great privilege and pleasure to work with them in the student council, if ever we get elected. I’m obviously and honestly hoping that we all do.
We spent the entire weekend before the campaign period (that’s two weeks ago) at our house, training and drafting our detailed general program of action. Then every afternoon till evening of every campaign day, we all sit down together and assess and talk about all sorts of stuff. It’s an everyday bonding thing. Last weekend, we slept over at Marian’s place in Guadalupe, Makati. It was a whole day till almost-dawn training slash bonding session. The slate also spent the entire night till morning before the college miting de avance at our house.
I will also miss working with our campaign managers, field operators and other campaign team members. Thank you, thank you.
