Monday, February 26, 2007

Proclamation Rally of the Team Unity in Pampanga

Student Leaders and other members of AUF were invited to serve as audience during the Proclamation Rally of the Team Unity held at the Pampanga Convention in San Fernando last Tuesday.

Ma’am Virgie, head of the Mass Communication Department, also our teacher in most of our major subjects took advantage of the opportunity. We needed a venue for our stand-up reporting which should have been done last Valentines but we were not permitted because we were having our midterm exams. And so even if we weren’t student leaders, our class was excused from all of our subjects that day and headed to venue right after lunch.

It wasn’t a so smooth ride thanks to the warm weather, but more thanks to the air-conditioning unit of the AUF bus. I think it deserves a freon check-up. To worsen up things, we were instructed to go back to the school the moment we got there. One of the heads of the University said that the Convention cannot accommodate us anymore. Well, we can squeeze our butts in but of course, the school is after the students’ safety.

Fortunately or unfortunately, our class was exempted from the instruction. It’s not everyday that we get that kind of opportunity, as Mass Communication people, we had to grab the opportunity. In short, we stayed even if we knew that we wouldn’t get the chance to interview the senatorial candidates anymore. We just served as audience instead, but it was still interesting.

We got there two speakers late. But that wasn’t really bad. I even admire how we got ourselves in imagining the crowd of people pushing, shouting, sweating just to get in the small entrance door. The smell, the scene and everything else was disgusting before you get in. But what can I say, that’s reality! It’s really hard to get even a little cooperation from the people in times like this.

Talking about cooperation, the administration party was really united. It seemed like they had one goal to make bola the Kapampangans and our dear President who also happens to be a Kapampangan. I thought they’d be using all these boring speeches of promises in improving our country. But I was wrong. It was very easy. All they had to say was that they have relatives in Pampanga, mention positive traits of the Kapampangans, promise that they will prioritize Pampanga, and so on just to win the hearts and votes of people in Pampanga.

It makes me wonder. Would they use the same lines, same adjectives, same adverbs but just different Nouns when they solicit votes from the other provinces and cities of the country? Or they just used this strategy in Pampanga because they think Kapampangans are narrow-minded?

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