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Election 2007

It was my first time to attend a proclamation rally of the well-known politicians in our country. the proclamation rally was held at the Convention Center in San Fernando, Pampanga on February 20,2007.

we are required to attend the proclamation rally of the "TEAM UNITY" at San Fernando, Pampanga because our teacher in Communication 7 asked us to do a stand up reporting on the said event. Our call time was 10 am because our teacher has to orient and inform us on what to do.

Our teacher asked us to prepare at least 3 sets of questions for the senatorial candidates and another 3 sets of questions for the audience.

We left the school at around 1 pm. Supposedly, the proclamation rally will be held at Expo Filipino, Clark Field, Pampanga but for some reasons, it was moved in San fernando. we used the school in going to the said place. the bus made me feel dizzy that's why I was not comfortable with it. It was even hot because we were all wearing a semi-formal clothes. I was not feeling well during that time.

As we arrived at teh Convention Center, the place was too crowded. The people were all try6ing to enter at the Convention Center maybe because they just want to see the popular people from our place. The atmosphere was not that good. Some of the teachers in AUF (Angeles University Foundation) not to go or enter the Convention Center because we might get hurt or something bad might happened on the place. Our teacher in Comm. 7 still decide to go in but not to have our stand report but instead, to witness and observe the event and the people who were there.

As I entered the lobby of the Convention Center, I saw some officials giving some boxes to the people who were there. I wonder what were those boxes for and what weer inside of the boxes that made the people pushed each other and kept entering the Convention Center despite of the hotness and crowd.

The people were shouting as I entered the Convention Center proper. It was Cesar Montano, one of the senatorial candidates in the TEAM UNITY, who was delivering his speech. Iwas not listening with his speech, Iwas just observing other people who were there. I saw some people who were jusy chatting with their seatmates, some were clapping their hands while the speaker was delivering his speech, some were just looking around and some were listening. I noticed that the politicians has their own jingle like for example, Zubiri's jingle was "Boomtaratarat". The politicians were using popular songs songs for them to be easily remembered.

I observed that among the senatorial candidates present on the said event, Cesar Montano has the biggest number of fans. Cesar has received the loudest yell among the audience. I realized that Cesar has a big possibility to win on the 2007 election because he was popular.

We stayed in the convention center for about 2 hours or less because one of tmy classmates got dizzy and she can't handle it anymore. As we went out of the convention center, I felt again the heat of the sun and I smelled the not so good odor of the people who were pushing each other. It was the most tiring day I had for this semester. On our way to the bus, we stopped over a store to have something to drink because the bus was far from the convention center and we had to walk under the extreme heat of the sun.

It was a good experience to attend such kind of event because as a mass communication student, we had to be exposed in such kind of crowd and such kind of environment. It was also bad for us, students, because accidents might occur on that place and our teacher might not attend all of us at the same time.

Fortunately, nothing bad happened with us and in the said event. Everything was turned out fine despite of the crowd.