SOMA EVENT – FLOAT PARADE

The annual event during the School of Multimedia Arts’ opening is the Float Parade. All the freshman blocks who are taking Applied Project classes are obliged to compete for the said event. Our preparations in making our floats took more than two months. Our block, ABMA 153, was grouped in two. Team A was led by Crystin Therese “Azul” Espenilla, and Team B was led by Elizabeth Beatrice Baylosis. The theme for this year’s event is: Filipino Mythical Creatures. Our group, come up with an idea where in we will merge the features of Wak wak (huge bird that haunts pregnant women and eats their babies) and Agta (half human and half tree creature that haunts woodsmen or travelers). For the other group, they decided to make a Zigbin for their float. We will be having a performance after the parade. The day before the event, was our first and last practice for the performance, we didn’t get to prepare much for we are focused in creating our floats. On the day of the parade, everyone seems happy and proud of our creations. Of all the blocks, ours are the only who performed as one. The audiences seems amused, they laugh and shout in awe as we performed. Everyone’s entertained. Also on that day, the judges announced the Top five best floats and performances and will reveal the winners on the last day of our SOMA Festival. Both of the groups on our block were called. I must admit, we are the happiest on that day. And on the last day of SOMA Fest, the whole block attended SOMA Awards. The announcement of winners come, ABMA 154 is on the third place, for the second place it’s a tie between us ABMA 153-A and ABMA 153-B. Though we didn’t win the first place, we are still happy because the whole block won. And whatever results will be, ABMA 153 will still be friends.