One Team, One Summer, One Camp

Vanj and I went to the church at 7:30 to meet with the other youth and church elders for our final shooting. Naks! May career, ‘di ba? :-P

We left at 8 AM headed to a river near Tayabo. Had fun during the trip, as expected. Umagang-umaga, ang taas ng energy ng mga taong ‘to, lalo na si Julius. Haha. He has been our noise and hype (as well as joy naman).

Anyhow, we arrived there at around 8:30. We rented a cottage on the riverside. We also had breakfast (although I just ate potato chips. hehe), followed by worship, before the actual shoot to load our tummies and spirits!

The first we shoot was the group dance. The sun’s heat was quite scorching already by the time we stepped into the river (with bare feet!), but we still managed to do good since we were all enjoying what we were doing. Moreover, we all are dedicated to urge young people to join the camp.

Imagine us dancing, clapping, shouting, and laughing on the river! Haha. People were actually watching (as if totoong shooting, e no), but there hardly came to us shame and stuff. Funny and amazing, but when we look at it now, there wasn’t a single timidity that came to anyone of us. Well, aside from the distance of the people watching, perhaps it was the overwhelming excitement and joy in us on what we were doing.

Anyhow, if you’ll see the outcome (you’ll see it firsthand either here on my blog at the church), you’ll observe the different angles and the like. Well, that’d be because there were three cameramen (2 men and a woman, actually) – Jett (he was thankful he didn’t get to dance.ahaha), P.Phillip, and Ptra.Cecille (who was taught by Ian.hehe).

What happened after the dance recordings was, I think, the most hilarious part of the day – the time when we were sticking cutout letterings to the boys gentlemen. We were all on the top of our lungs, laughing and giggling.

At long last, we left the river and hiked back to the parking (one needs to walk a steep path to go to the river) to shoot the second promotional video starring Jett, Julius & Giovan’s hands, and the trees. Hehe.

Left Tayabo at 12:48. Haha, yeah, I still can remember the exact time because I checked my phone to see the time as we started driving off.

We all went straight to Jio (Jett’s brother)’s place to celebrate with him his birthday. It was my first time to visit their red-painted house. Left before 2 PM. Vanja nd I were dropped at Octagon since we wanted to buy some blank CDs.

Anyway, we didn’t disseminate the task of editing, so it was I and [half effort of] Vanj (‘cause she slept while Movie Maker drooped) that edited the videos. The vid editing was completed at 2:28 AM of Sunday (April 13). Sobrang joy ko, hindi na ako naka-tulog kaya inuit-ulit kong i-play. Haha. Well, eventually, naka-tulog din ako past 4 AM. Don’t worry, hindi ako na-late for the 8AM Sunday Service ;)

The shoots were tiring, but I know no efforts are in vain, for we are working not for men but for the Lord. Yes, we work to reach [young] people, but it’s still for the Lord.

I believe so much that the Lord will really move and do marvelous things in the camp that I do not want anybody – doesn’t matter whether inactive or active at the church, to be able to join the camp. I do not want anyone to miss it.

Sama ka na!