Chants and Cheers

Chants and Cheers is a competition of a blocks Unity, Harmony and Oneness.

Upon Preparing for this competition, we have encountered a lot of problems and conflicts. Our Block in unlike the other block, we are the type of a block who is competitive and perfectionist, so every flaws and every errors that our block mates commit every practice turns out to be a root of arguments and problems. Preparing for this kind of competition is hard because most of our block mates are not really good in working in groups, some are not attending practice while some are having a hard time to catch up with the steps, the chants, the beats and the cheers. But altogether, it is Fun because we sometimes just laugh at our errors and I could say that our block became more compact with each other after this competition, because despite of the struggles we had while preparing, working with all our block mates gave us a chance to know each other more because to be Honest, our block is not actually a block: Our Technical Writing professor Ms. Nina noticed that, because she can 

feel that a spark of awkwardness while she is having her lessons, it is true: Because we are not united as a block, all of us have different point of views, one is different from the other. 

On the last day of our practice, we had our open forum; it gave each of us a chance to speak our hearts out about our problems with other members and the leaders. After that, we felt like w are enlightened, and inspired to give our best shot on the competition.

The day of the competition comes, every block performed their chants and their cheers, all of them are intimidating but we keep ourselves from being deistracted.

Our Grammar and Composition, Ms. Minglana, once told us that our block (ABMA 151) is the most responsible ABMA block that she ever handled during her years of teaching in Asia Pacific College, it is heart melting and overwhelming to hear that kind of feedback, and I am sure that we proved her right.

Because we won the third place, we may not be the 1^st placed winner, but being one with our block mates is the most important trophy of all.