15-Public Speaking Competition

Public Speaking Competition was held on December 21,2015 at APC Auditorium the theme for the said competition would be about "The Cult of Celebrities and Fantasies....A Filipino Obssession?" and it will have six public speakers from each block.

The program started after a couple of minutes then the host announced already the assign room for each representative wherein it was the first and the elimination round.While us didn't joined the competition will be waiting inside the auditorium and wait until the contestants will be back.Just like what this one representative from APC Speaks told us ,"Chill lang kayo dyan guys"and we're so happy to know it.Suddenly,he continued ,"while they are having their speech on their assigned room we will also have to play a game called Speed Speech" .The Speed Speech game is a bit similar to an ignite speech wherein they show some pictures about the given main topic. Your goal is to make a 15 seconds speech in each slides to connect all of them in a speech. This game was a bit confusing since the topics are not connected to each other. One topic is all about cactus then Manila Zoo then Drugs with Hamburgers and many more.  Another game was also presented which is called “Ignite” this game is basically the same with Speed Speech but this time they are two players for each representative of the block. Some topic where Lady Gaga, Darth Vader, Laptop, Watermelon, Dustpan, Taylor Swift, and a lot of words .And, the last game which is for the whole block has something to do with Christmas song which mean as a block we need to sing some Christmas song and if the song is already sung you're out of the game that's why our block are first who eliminated in the games until only one will be the champion.

After the game, all the contestants are finally back and the final round would be at the auditorium stage wherein only the top 3 out of the 7 representatives would be chosen to deliver their speeches onstage .Luckily,it's nice to three of my blockmates moved on to the final round and they are Alyssa Biona ,Carmena Tabalan and Dea Rose Mahinay.Firstly,Alyssa Biona's topic was all about her lovelife way back in highschool and how she moved on to that matter.Then, Carmena is up and her topic has something to do with her current boyfriend with a cancer and how she faces the struggles just like Jamich where she got all the motivation and inspiration.Lastly, Dea who tell us about her experiences due to her disability but then by her speech she proved that she's a strong person no matter what other people say to her .And what she quoted at the end of her speech is that you can achieve happiness with self-acceptance and this quote is a kind inspired me.

To sum it all , I would say that the program well done and the next day would be the second day of the culminating activity of English Resource Center(ERC) and these are the Ignite Speech and Speech Choir Competition .I hope that program for second day will be success as the first day of the competition.