Family Day 2006

Family Day 2006

Have you experienced a Family Day? Do you find exciting or do you feel happy or bored when you hear this occasion. I know that when we hear about Family Day, we feel happy and excited about this event and that is what I feel when I have it but when the occasion started, I find boring and tiresome. Here is my story about my experience in our Family Day inside the UP Campus.

Our school was celebrating the Family Day once a year. This occasion was celebrated with the students together with their family members on last February 25, 2007, Sunday. In this occasion, you should be happy celebrating this event together with your family members. There were a lot of games, surprises, foods and many more.

On February 24, 2007, Saturday, a day before the Family Day, all 1st year Bartlett students were assigned to help their parents and their adviser in decorating their tents. All of us prepared and decorated our tents very well just to beautify our tents.

Before the Family Day started, a mass was held in the open stage. While the mass was going on suddenly there started a rain and the priest and some 4th year students evacuated to a safer place for them to protect against the rain. After the mass was ended, a Phil. Demo was held and each year level must perform on the Phil. Demo. When the first year students were going to perform, some our parents went near to us to see our performances and to some pictures while dancing. At that time, I was out of my concentration because my father and some of my siblings laughing at me while I am dancing. After our performance, my father directly went to me and teased me that I dance like that and like this and he also made some fools on me but I just don’t mind his foolishness. After the Phil. Demo, it the most awaited part of the day and it is the “EATING TIME”. Some parents of the Bartlett students brought some extra foods for them to share to each other. All of us ate happily and peacefully together with their family members. After eating, some of us were resting and some were preparing for the games. Before the games started, Madam was delivering a speech and she was saying her speech, she was crying because this year is her last year here in the UP and a lot of parents are touched to her speeches. After the resting time, they already started the games. At that moment, people are getting to be tired and I saw some parents together with the students going back to their home. At that time the game started and I have saw a lot people going home and that time also, I also feel bored except on my brothers and my sister who were busy playing. After sometime, my little sister got tired and she felt asleep but my youngest brother was busy doing something on the stage while my other brother was happy watching the game together with my father. I think most people got tired and bored on the show and some people and the players were the ones who were enjoying the game. When I really got tired and bored on the show, I asked my father to just go home instead of waiting for the time to end the occasion but my father only waited for the raffle draw but I said to him that we only got a little chance for us to win the raffle draw like in the Athletics Nights. So my father just decided to go home instead of waiting for the raffle draw.
For me, that is my first time to experience the boring Family Day, so I hope that in next year the Family Day will be more exciting to us.