Pressure of Being a Senior

The new faces of CAT

Photo by Jeanille Cogtas

         A week before graduation during 6th grade, a 4th year high school student (now known as a Grade 10 student, if you somehow didn’t hear the news) asked what I was most excited for in high school. I said that I dreaded Math. Feared it with every fibre of my being. I told him how numbers already looked frightening on their own; how much more then when they get mixed with the alphabet?

I was wrong, though. The ‘a + b’s and the ‘(x – y)²’s are intimidating, but we get along nonetheless. I didn’t even answer his question correctly, poor guy.

After four years of laughter, tears, stress, low points, and triumphs, I realized what I truly feared: becoming a Senior. The role models.The ultimate ates and kuyas. The most responsible students in the entire universe because they’ve been through this and that, and they should already know everything that has to be done—well, I may have gone overboard there, but close enough I guess.

To be quite frank, just because we are the eldest (considering the Senior High as a different story), does not mean we know everything right away. Just four months ago, we were Juniors. That span of time is too short for us to immediately reach, even just slightly tap, the expectations put up for Seniors. We have the SSG, the CAT, the interlevel competitions, plus our studies, our projects, our reports and presentations, and we have everyone else paying such close attention.

We have lapses because we’re not perfect. We’re not perfect because we are humans. We apologize for the mistakes we made, and we apologize in advance for the mistakes we will make. Being a Senior makes us carry a whole lot on our shoulders, but who says we’re going to crush under the weight?

We probably might stumble a little, that’s a bit embarrassing. You know what they say, though: we’re all in this together!

(You just sang that in your head, didn’t you? Don’t worry, I did too.)

- JenikaGi-An C. Nero

Blue-Violet winsACT Olympics Basketball Championships

Glued Grip. Alyassa Usop of the Blue-Violet team
courageously made an attempt to steal the ball from
the even more steadfast Zeth Castillon of the Green-

Yellow team.

Photo by Triziah Jo Bondoc

July 16, 2016 –The blue and violet team won the basketball championships during the ACT Olympics which was organized by the ACT Supreme Student Council (SSC).

The blue and violet team was proclaimed the champion because of their 22-point lead gained mostly by their point guard, Phil John Quimada, who scored 18 more points after. Their opponent, the yellow and green team, on the other hand, had scored 30 points.

Halfway through the basketball championships, the game was heating up. The players were competitively trying their best to earn a score for their team, regardless of the injuries sustained in the process.

The yellow and green team was desperately trying to catch up with the blue and violet team’s score. With the teamwork and skills showed by ZethCastillion and Arfiel Ray Manigbas, they were able to gain the upper hand in the last quarter and gave their team a score of 33 points.

On the second half of the basketball games, Manigbas had serious cramps on both of his legs which caused him to stop playing. “The game was great but tiring. I didn’t get a time to rest, thus causing me these cramps,” Manigbas said.

The bright and sunny day had really increased the intensity of the ball games where junior high school students were randomly grouped regardless of their level –to extend their profile to other Asianistas and work together to finish tasks and obstacles. The team building activities were great ways to know other people more and learn how to work with them.

Although there were injuries and defeats that day, the game was still great.

- Dominic Ceballos