by Sherwin Jaspher V. Parrado
In my last article, "From Hip Hop to Poi", I
started sharing about my first introduction to Poi. How my love for dancing
resurrected that archived memory of that Anne Curtis commercial. And how, in my
fight to keep doing what I love most, I was able to meet a group of amazing
people. This is the second part of that tale, which starts where the last one
ended, Xavier
Days.
Xavier Days is annually held on December and is usually a
time of merriment, but on December 2010 it wasn’t for me. It wasn’t sad or depressing;
it was more of stressful because of the tons of curricular activities we had to
do. That time we meet at school around 7am and go home
about 8pm, everyday, for about 4 days I think. What's worst is we had
to do it on Xavier Days, the time when everyone else is busy spending money on
games and booths and what not. We on the other hand were spending our money on
our project. Needless to say I was almost broke, I still had money but every
cent was already allotted so free pocket money was not that much, about 500
pesos perhaps. And during Xavier Days, 500 is not really enough.
One fine early morning I was going around the booths
checking out the merchandise before going to the group meeting place. It was
this time that I came upon the PoiCDO booth with Shaunnee, Egan, Hexa and Roy2x
selling there, I should say ours now but it might be confusing, different
displays of poi. (I have no idea where Gbong was at the time but I'll mention
his name so that he won’t feel left out. Hi Gbong!)
