MAY 1 MADNESS

I know this is a little late…but still …

While everyone was busy rallying at Mendiola, Quiapo, or any other place in the country last May 1, we were doing something different. While laborers scream for an increase in their wages, and some took advantage of the holiday to spend time with their family, we were taking part in a much grander event. While spending time with our adopted families we were also screaming for funds. While everybody else was celebrating Labor Day, we were celebrating a labor of love (naks naman!).

As you might know by now, last week was the start of our Gawad Kalinga project at Brookside, QC. Last May 1 was the official launch of the GK Brookside Designer’s Challenge. The Designer’s Challenge is an event participated by our summer UP CMC CWTS class, to help bring back the beauty and sense of community in the Brookside village. The four teams of our CWTS class were assigned different streets. Our team, which is named Team Masigla and given the official color of orange, handled the St. Hermine and St. Mary of the Passion streets with Manang Mely as our coordinator.

The launch was pretty bleak, since the organizers (the team composed of seniors, who are also in charge of documenting the whole GK experience, but are so far doing nothing but bitch and pseudo-documentation…) were not able to organize the program at all. We started late, but at least the launch pushed through. None of their ideas pushed through (all talk and no action…*sigh) for the program though, since they didn’t coordinate well with the GK people as well as the residents themselves. Whatever! Talk about lack of coordination.

Well at least one of their ideas pushed through, and that was the cheering competition. The four groups must prepare an original cheer which would involve the residents of their assigned streets. The winner of the contest would receive 500 pesos courtesy of the GK personnel. Guess who won?! Yup, our group did!! If it wasn’t for my *ahem *ahem uber great leadership we would not have won…okay maybe not…haha! But thanks a bunch to Jihad, Audrey and Bianca for their uber great cheering ideas and crazy craziness that morning. If it wasn’t for Jihad’s and Audrey’s crazy antics that morning and uber high energy level we wouldn’t have won at all! It also helped that our team had the highest number of participation from the residents! We were also the only team wearing our team color that day! Talk about cooperation and participation! Great job Team Masigla! Having won the 500 pesos, we at least have funds to start our projects with already. It was a great day and I can’t be prouder! Yeah!

Team Masigla ay narito na, Team Masigla ay dumating na! Humanda ka na ha ha! Humanda ka na ha ha!”

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