an experience to remember:]

yesterday was a day full of learning...

feb 25, 2009 was the when the 1st debate seminar workshop was held at brokenshire college (avr 2 to be specific)..
the speakers were from the Ateneo Debate Community (ADC) of ADDU. there were a lot of them who attended the said activity but only 2 were the speakers - joanne and marvin ty. joanne is actually ADC's senior adjudicator, and...i forgot what marvin's role was...basta, he was very good as well! by the way, adjudicator means a judge in a debate competition..hehe, a new thing learned:)
we had real fun though nervous and pressured at times...
the entire populace was divided into 2 groups - one to stand for the government (the affirmative side); and the other to stand for the opposition (the negative side)..
by chance, i was a part of the (+) side..hehe. i was with jylo, glaizel, my fellow educ studes and other participants...
there would be an exercise debate, of course, to see how far have we gone in just a couple of hours of seminar...
who0o0ot! supposedly, it was arlyn's team to be the representative of the (+) side,
but it ended up with me, jylo and glaizel as the debaters for the Government's side.
wow! i was like "HELLO? WHAT AM I GONNA DO THERE?!"...
it was really my first time to involve myself in such exercise...i was indeed nervous! i didn't know what would be my role, what would be the things i were to say, stuffs like that! but thank god, all was settled... i was the Deputy Prime Minister, the 2nd speaker next to the Prime Minister, jylo was the PM and glaizel was the Govt. whip, the last speaker...
wow mom! it was not an easy match! the opposition was also good in speaking and presenting data! bang!!! what a clash!
oh well, at the end of the day, what matters is that we all had a lot of things learned in the seminar...not just that, we also gained new friends:)
though the other ADC members held criticisms against us, the novice debaters, it was really OK! through that, we will be able to improve our selves in the field of debating! thank god for this chance:)

>>>who0o0t! after the seminar was a lot of food trip!
wuaaaaaaaaaah! we headed dencios! whew!
with pearl, glaize, jylo and peggy...if im not mistaken, it's peggy:)
great time!!!

^^all smiles!