Surprise.

Friday, October 17, 2008

I can't get the picture in, sorry.

After five months of wallowing in my tears (haha!), something finally went right. Or at least, semi-right.

What in the world am I talking about?

Hillstar meeting. Yeah, that one, with the funny face on the bulletin board announcement that was yesterday (since right now it's like dawn on the 17th.). I don't think I can ever forget that meeting. I mean, I might forget the date, and time, and even the place and the people and what we talked about, but I'll never forget that it was the first meeting that made me feel like we could actually go somewhere.

I had three simple agendas, and these were what we accomplished:

We are going to meet every week, and we decided on Mondays (thank God, walang nakaharang in the way of violin practices and Wednesday night service). Staffers need to watch out on flag ceremonies or posts on the bulletin board to see if we don't have meetings. Finally, they're not just going to pass by it. :))

Projects. Inggit ~~sila~~ kami sa SC and sa other orgs, dami na nilang nagawa. Pero kung marami na silang nagawa, I pointed out, marami pa kaming magagawa. We have 5 months to burn all our effort and creative juices on. Part I of this agenda was about the students. How to get them involved and how to be of service to them. Part II of the agenda was us. How we were supposed to encouarge each other to work on this thing. Grabe, kapag projects. This was where everyone was active and overexcited!!! I loved everyone's ideas!!! And this was also what took us so long: the meeting lasted for a whole hour. ;)

Assignments. People were a little more scattered (that's also owing to the fact that the food finally came and Maam Cathy and Aldwin who came with the brownies were talking to the people at the back, not at all in relation to the meeting, I suppose) and unenthusiastic, and I knew they would be. This is the huge crux of our organization, this actual work we are supposed to do, and where all the great burden of the first issue came from. But everyone participated well enough, and that's settled, although it's all the more promises to break.

I got cold feet all the way before we started. I was in a trauma of the four past meetings that did not feel like meetings at all. They were cold, people did not attend, and I hardly felt like we accomplished anything together. In a word, I was truly terrified.

Some people came in early, so we started early, a little past five. Some came late, some didn't come at all. Most were involved, some were noisy; some were neither. At some part of the meeting I found everyone who was participating pushing me up the wall, surrounding the teachers' table, and they wanted to stay that way, they wanted their ideas first out and right in my face, and I had no problem with that. Minsan, offtopic kami at laging may mga side jokes and side comments, some stupid, some genuinely funny, some GROSS (eurgh talaga, staffers, EEEK.), some impossible, and whatever.

After the meeting, I craned up to see the time; all I knew was that it was already dark out. I blinked hard over and over again: it was past six. And I was hoping it would be all of 15 minutes.

So. Some people might say this is not a good booster for others, but this is my blog, and my memories, and I totally think they should be given even just a little credit in this miniscule way. People in attendance on the Hillstar meeting of the 16th of October at 5:05PM at the IV-Humility room:

Cesly Pauline Baguio. Haziel Cacdac. Samuel Chueh. Loui Contemplo. Dianne Du. Vanessa Dumago. Ryan Ho. Christian Rem Iman (laaaaate!).You Mi Jun. Dave Patrick Luy. Sharmaine Dianne Mamaed. Justin Shinn Ng. Margareth Grace Ng. Cafe Pauline Orbe. Therese Suy Te. John Danson Uy. Kit Frias ;) Occasionally dropping in, Tifany Jan Atega (may badminton practice siya and Missionsfest work for Arts Club. Grabe ka-in demand.)
*Nalingaw ako sa whole names nila, ecept kay Keeshia. :))

18 people out of 22. Miracle of all miracles.

Boo! Surpriiiiise! :D