The Preparation

By: Peña, Ivory Rose A.

Have you ever experienced to prepare an activity that is unsure if this will happen successfully?  Indeed, everyone who experienced this have a 50-50 decision to cancel or to pursue the activity.  In preparation an activity there’s always a circumstance to face.  Everything that is needed should already there. The venue, participants, judges, technical, trophies, certificates and medals should be ready a week before the said activity. 

As we conducted an activity, I experienced to cram because a week before we are arguing if the activity will pursue or not. So the preparation happened in a most rigid time. Preparing is the most tiring time for me, especially when we are talking to those organizations which will be the participants of the activity and when we are finding a sticker for the trophy. It made me realized that in preparing you should also know how to bargain. Why? because not everyone will accept your request, especially when I experienced to rejected twice because of the sticker for our trophy. For the third time we felt rejected again but luckily the owners gave us a chance. In that way, the trophy became ready hour before the program.  As a whole I can say that preparation is really a tiring one, but if you really love what you’re doing it will flow smoothly and successfully. Hindrances are common in preparing, so as just pursue the activity because you will learned a lot from this.  It is also a wonderful beginning for us as the facilitator of this big program. I can say that I was ready for the next activity that we will be conduct again.