IGNITE SPEECH COMPETITION

Last tuesday, along with the speech choir competition, the ignite speech competition was held.

All of the contestants are good when it comes to delivering their speeches and their powerpoint presentations are also great. That's why the judges really had a hard time picking who will be the ignite speaker winner.

Our representative is Charella Gonzalez. She really did great when it comes to delivering her speech. She is one the best speakers that present in that stage. Sadly she didn't won but even if she didn't won, we are still proud of her.

SPEECH CHOIR COMPETITION

Last tuesday, a contest was held and it is called the speech choir competition. Every SOM freshmen was part of the contestants. This contest was announced a month before the day itself so we had a lot of time preparing for it. But sadly, we had other things to do and to focus on so we dont have time to practice and do the props.

When we have free time, we make sure that we use it for practice. On our practices, we experience stress and a lot of emotions but we make sure to handle it as a team. That's why always cooperate with each other.

We are all nervous when our time of presentation came. We are the last to present. We somehow messed up the first part maybe because of the nervousness that we all felt. But we make sure that we do our best.

I am so happy when we are called to be the speech choir champion. I thought we are not part of the winners because we have mistakes. All our hardships, stress were all worth it. I am so happy and lucky to be part of that amazing block .

SOM PUBLIC SPEAKING COMPETITION

Last monday, a contest was held for SOM students. It is the public speaking competition for freshmen students. Every block should have 6 representatives each. Every one of us did a persuasive speech in our public speaking class to see who are the six best speakers in every block. 

Our representatives practice and try their very best to deliver their speeches perfectly. Even if they are not competing yet, i'm already proud of my block mates because they are so brave in facing everyone's  fear which is public speaking. 

On that day of the contest, they are grouped into 3 groups with 9 participants and then in that 9 participants, 3 of them will be part of the final round which is being held in our auditorium. When they are delivering their speeches in the discussions rooms, the remaining students, which i'm part of, played games while waiting. We played speed speech which our representative won. We also played this kind of game that every block should sing many christmas songs. A block will lose if  they repeat other block's christmas song and if they run out of christmas songs. The game was fun and it became a lot more fun because we won. 

 After that, the host announce the contestants that will be part of the final round. Luckily, two of our representatives entered the final round. They deliver their speeches in the stage with us watching. The winners will be announced the next day along with the speech choir and ignite speech competition.

Jan Michael mil was one of our representative who made it to the final round .

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

"THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA"

Last Wednesday we watched the musical play phantom of the opera. I heard that title a lot of times because it was very famous but I never really watch it cause i'm more into a real movie than musical plays. though I like to watch movies which involves music and singing  but not a play.

But when the phantom of the opera starts playing I suddenly got interested because they were all good both in acting and singing. Actually they are more than good, they are excellent. At first I didn’t understand the flow of the story but as I understand it, it made me like the play. 

The play was really good and I really like the story. I also love both of the main characters which is the phantom and Kristine. Especially phantom because he is good in acting and his voice was awesome. He got the kind of voice which you just like to listen to everyday and you’ll never get tired of.

I also like their songs in the play. After we watched it, all their songs are stuck in our heads. When I got home ,I immediately search for their songs and listen to it. It was beautiful.

At the end of the play, the woman who first played the role of Kristine was there, surprising the audience, including me. I was stunned when she sing. It seems like her voice never gets old because it was still beautiful as ever, the former phantom was also there and he was also good.

All in all, the characters played their roles excellently and the play was well executed. It made us feel roller coaster emotions that we enjoyed the whole time we are watching it. Now, i'm a big fan of this play. 

SPEAK SENSE

Last friday, an event was held on our school. It was a public speaking contest competition for highschool students. That event was held on our auditorium. We, the som freshmen were the audience.

There are many contestants from different schools and i can say they were all presentable and look like they are ready to deliver their speeches excellently. And when each of them delivered their speeches i was surprised because they were all good. They are even better than us when it comes to speaking in public. Some of them experience mental block and forgot some of their lines but they manage to remember it again. Its okay to experience this because i admit that i also forgot my lines when speaking in public mainly because of nervousness. beause that is our worst enemy when it comes to public speaking. It can make you forgot your lines and make you think of negative thoughts that may happen when you speak.

Also on their question and answer part, they are also great. They can easily think of answers for the judge' s questions. And i salute them for that because we all know that is hard.

I was amazed by this girl who are one of the contestants. I cant remember her name just her face and how the way she deliver her speech. She was so good in speaking. She didnt forget any of her lines, she also put feelings in everything she said that is why we are all captured by her speech. Even the judges were impressed by her skills. She really deserved to win the contest.

Just be confident and trust yourself when speaking in public. We dont know maybe one of us can be one of those great speakers someday.

Plagiarism

What is plagiarism?

It means copying of one's work without their permission. Admit it or not we all do it even if we dont know. When we need home works we always just search in the internet and copy whatever is written there not minding to acknowledge the person who really did the work. Until now some of us do it right?

plagiarism is an act of stealing. Because you are taking someone's property without their permission espacially secretly or by force. And that is very unethical thing to do. Unfortunately, lots of teenagers and adults think that plagiarizing the work of others is okay but its not.

We should be aware that plagiarism is a crime. Lots of people today have been accused for that crime. And they've been put to jail. They even lose a lot of opportunities in life just because someone finds out that their work is plagiarized. If you dont want to be like those people, stop plagiarizing works of other. Have originality.


before you act because everything you do has a result. Now, it is up to us if we want to lead in making the difference.

MEDIA LITERACY

Last Wednesday ,  a seminar was held in our auditorium and it was about media literacy.

The first speaker which is Ms. Edmallyne Remillano discuss about how to write story effectively. Ms. Remillano is a head writer and talent association of GMA network. Her speech about journalism was interesting and made a big impact on us, audience. She said that journalism is about making the important interesting and the interesting relevant. She taught us many ways on how to write a story and how she manage to make one.

The second speaker is Ms. Jan Meynard Nualla and she discuss about society blaming the internet. She also discuss about how we should not blame the internet for what is happening to our lives instead blame ourselves. She also tell us to always be aware on what is happening on our society and not only giving attention to things that entertain us.

The last speaker is Ms. Lian Nami Buan. She discuss about the role of media and advocacy journalism. She also discuss their work and the process on how they do it.

All the speakers are really great and they really inspire all the people listening to them that day . If someone would ask me if i would recommend this seminar to others i would say, why not?