Worthy
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 @ 3:30 PM | 0 comment(s)

“Pahingi ng double-sided”, “Pahiram ng scissors”, “Nakakapagod naman Atéh!”, and “Gutom na ko!” are just some of the lines that you’ll hear inside the Social Studies Club officers’ working room. And that’s not all, you will find us in a preoccupied state. We are all busy that nobody would even dare to talk to you. And you’ll realize that we all look stressed out, ugly and austere. We don’t really work with grace under pressure!

Being excused from classes for the whole week was not all happiness and luck: it was hard work. Preparing for a big event like the United Nations was a roller coaster of emotions: frustrating, nauseating, tiring and traumatic. We missed a week’s worth of lessons and quizzes. And we were not able to enjoy the pageant itself because we still need to work until the program ended.

Well, the perks? We got to see the results first hand. We had backstage passes. And we were the brains behind all of it. Plus, working with new people was fun and memorable. The friendship and bond we had made within the four corners of the work room was something that was worth keeping. We shared laughter. We heard thoughts. We shed tears, both by disappointment and happiness. We almost gave up but never did. We worked all at the same time. We had fun. And, most of all, we learned: we learned to trust each other, to be optimistic, to always move forward, to accept mistakes, to be creative and to always be happy.

At the end of the day, we just realized that all our hard work paid off, that giving up was not the answer to all our problems, and that it was all worth it.


As for myself, I will miss the moments, the scare fest, the late hours of working, the jokes, the English, the hunger’s side effects, the work room, Ma’am Issa and her laptop, the stories, the ‘Babies’ (the first years), the rest of the officers and the experience itself.

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