The CSB Experience: I'm Busy With 4 Things and I'm Hoping To Add 2 More

    It is very much surprising that for being in benilde for only more than 5 weeks, I have already made myself busier with 2 orgs and a CoP commission plus being president of a block section. Now I'm gearing up on the possibilty on adding two more ocupations under my belt!

    During the Frosh Orientation, I have encountered Mediamax, an student organization for whcih they give its mebers training session, hold special events, and the like. Likewise, it is sort of a big advantage for me since I'm majoring Multimedia Arts, my course in CSB. The reason for it is that in time for my majors in my later years, I'd be able to be well-familiarized with the software programs like Photoshop and Dreamweaver. Sort of like a big pre-major prepartion kind of thing. They don't have,as far as I know, regular training sessions for all members but consultation are available on the SIU office (at the MMX cubicle that is), the block sections have their assigned gurus so that these gurus can help their assigned members on different things.

    Next is the CSB DebSoc or Debate Society. the org is divided into two, one is the org itself with set of officers and members, the other is the DebSoc varsity wherein they represent the college in various events in and outside the country. The varisty can pick any member of the org to its roster of debatees but of course they have to train their members on the field of debating. I'm currently "enrolled" on a Monday training period of 1:00-2:30 in the afternon just before my class in Filip11 would start. Once I've settled my schedule in Benilde, I could ad another day of training for me to catch ahead. The org itself is the varisty although the org selects members to represent the org itself and the school.

    Now being block president is not what I call an easy job. Add to the fact that there wasn't a class election to select our president and instead have my blockmate Ferdz Lanusa say my name that made me president of the class. back in as early as high school, I have run for several political position in the classroom level but I didn't aspire to become a president of a class. Now, I have this moral obligatio to control the behavior of my blockmates from further chaos and mayhem than it is now. It's driving me nuts like crazy and be able to remind them on important stuff like homework, projects and the like!

    The good side on being president is that I'm automatically a member of CSB's Council of Presidents, on their "Block Commission" for which we recently elected the block presindet of DV2 as our block commision chairperson. We discuss things on the block level but so far we don't have any meetings as of yet. The block commission of CoP is expected to exist around the time that our block sections for the first term (or possibly until the second term) are abolished/dissolved.

Now for the possibilities:

    I'm planning on continuing my quest of joining the official school publication, moving my sights from SJA's VOX to CSB's Press Corps. this time, I applied for a position on literay writing. I have existing literary pieces (short stories, poems and personal narratives) for which I previously passed them as my entries for Palatak, a collection of literary works of the students of SJA (parang Literture Delight dati nung Grade 5 ako), which as of now I'ms till clueles as to when will it be available to us almunis of Batch 07. In case, my entries (plus 2 new pieces I made last week) went through the Literary editor of the Press Corps without a hitch, I'd be getting acall from them saying that I need to do a literary exam to rpove that i'm worthy to become a literary writer for the press corps. If ever I made it to the Press Corps, expect me to be all aorund super busy.

    Add to that si my intention on joining Benilde's Taekwondo varsity team. Although my coach back St. James allowed me to continue on training in malabon, i don't think it would be right for me to continue on since my team in SJA would represent the school on PTA events. I'm no,onger a sudent there so that would'nt be too fitting. According to the coach of the varsity, they have (like the varsity in La Salle Manila) trainings from 6:30 to 9 in the morning (M-W-F) at the La Salle Sports Complex (and the Bro. Andrew Gonzales Building of DLSU) in La Salle U. It's a kind of good and bad thing for me. For the plus side, they start just before I have regular classes at 2:30 (Mondays), 9:20 (Wednesdays), and 10:30 (Fridays). the minus side of it is that I have to sacrifice waking up late on these three days to go to training, worse, waking up as early as 4:00 to gte in school before 6;30. For me to do that, I need to live in a dormitory but that's plain exaggeartion and totally out of the question.

One I'm not so sure of, but the other depends on my decision to go on with pursuing it.

I have to make a choice, be busy or be no busy.