CHANT COMPETITION

February 5, 2016, The competition of the class chant has begun for the ECE, ABMA, and CPE. Every section had practiced for weeks, perfecting every line to tell who they were. One by one, they stepped up to perform what each section prepared for the judges and the entire auditorium. As an irregular student, it was interesting to see lower batches whip out their creativity and show it off to the other sections

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In the eyes of ECE 151, everything was both smooth and rugged. They were organized but unsure if they were doing things right. They showed a lot of will in succeeding with the chant. In the first sections that performed, It seemed like the ABMA students would demolish the ECE and CPE because of their creative advantage. ABMA students are more visually sensitive, they know what attracts the eye, they know what color goes with their personalities, They know what represents them the best. They should know, why would they not know?

Other people would think that the ABMA would win the chant because of the same artistic reasons. Since poetry is an art, and is closely related to a chant, the ABMA students would be the winner of the Chant competition. But the ECE had outperformed them. Almost every section has a prop, a percussion instrument, an idea of who they were as a section, as a unit. But the ECE 151 had it better amongst the other performers. Was it the props that led them to be the champion? The props? The Words that consisted their chant? Or was it their Bond ? Being an observer while they practice, they work together and agreed on many things. They had a lot of ideas that all of them liked. Needless to say, they won the chant competition.

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Maybe that was the whole purpose of the chant, to bond with everyone and use the english language to discover oneselves as one unit. Maybe it was suppose to make everyone closer to each other while shouting the verses that everybody put together. It has made everybody closer knowing that they were close friends even before the english term started.