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contemplative

Amazing Greece

Last July 10, at around 10:00 PM (GMT +2), the winners of the 23rd International Choral Competition in Preveza was announced.  Hooray!!! We bagged 7 awards!!!

1. CATEGORY A: MIXED CHOIR (had the most number of competing choirs) - Gold medal (having scored 90++), 1st place award, Special Award for Best in Folk Song Interpretation
2. CATEGORY B:  MIXED CHAMBER CHOIR - Gold medal, 1st place award
3. CATEGORY C: EQUAL VOICES - We are not qualified to join this category (for all male/female choirs lang ito eh...)
4. CATEGORY D: CHILDREN'S CHOIR - Hehe malamang nde din kme qualified dito
5. CATEGORY E: MIXED YOUTH CHOIR - Gold Medal, 1st place award.

Astig!!! pero those awards are not the reason why we consider our Greece Trip amazing.  Amazing yung trip because of the friends that we gained there...  Because we were able to touch their hearts even though may language barrier.  The people there also touched our hearts so much that it was very hard for us to leave Preveza.  Sobra... si Ms. Minchin, A.k.a Principal, yung mataray na greek old maid na may ari ng hotel na hindi nakakaintindi ng english naiyak noong sumasakay na kme sa bus going to Athens.  Most of us cried while singing "Irish Blessing" to Daddy, yung owner ng store na kinakainan namen once a day... pati rin si Daddy naiyak, kahit he doesn't understand the lyrics... Pati rin si Yota, our guide, cried when we were boarding the bus.  We also made a lot of friends from other Choirs... nakakamiss yung kakulitan nila... And dun lang kme nakakabati ng kahit na sino sa kalye, kahit nde namen sila kilala... and pati rin sila, ganun samen... Ibang klase... And meron pang nangyari na miracle... In the competition, when we were about to sing the Alleluia part of "O Magnum Mysterium", the church bells rang... grabe nakakatindig daw ng balahibo... sobrang coincidence... La lang... I will definitely not forget every single day that we were in Preveza...

P.S.  Nakakamiss na din yung crush ko, Denise from Turkey... hahaha...