XVII - SoM Speech Choir and Ignite Competition

Last December 22, 2015, the second day of the activities for the SoM students, took place in the APC Auditorium. It includes the speech choir and ignite competition for all courses in the School of Management. Our block was not very much happy in that event because we know that we're not really prepared for this competition. We admit that we didn't placed a lot of effort during the practice for the speech choir.

We also felt sad that day because it's somehow a closing ceremony for the all English term. The program started with the open remarks delivered by the English head, Miss Eliz Reyes who is also our English Enrichment Program Professor. She made us feel that we will surely miss this term. I know everyone that time agreed to what she said. We will miss this term because as an accountancy student, we are expecting heavy subjects and we're expecting a lot of sleepless nights but luckily, we had this all English term. This term was not very stressful unlike the previous term when we had our first accounting subject. Yes, we also had loads of work to do but it's not that heavy unlike those that we had last term. We will also miss the half day classes where we only stayed for 7:30 until 1:30 in the afternoon, and the professors who taught us a lot.

Moving on, the program started with a speech choir presentation, followed by an ignite, and the cycle goes on. We were the second one to perform the speech choir and we feel embarrassed because of what we have prepared. We know that we don't have a good presentation or interpretation of the piece, "At Christmas" by Edgar Albert Guest and we only performed just for the sake of performing and also for the sake of our grades. We regret those days where we should practice and yet we did not. All of the courses who presented were all prepared except for our block. Fortunately, we have our ignite presenter who looks prepared, and we somehow didn't lose hope but as we expected, we still didn't get places in the competition but we had fun and that's all that really matters. It is also a lesson learned for us.