JOURNAL ABOUT THE PA’SUNGKO FESTIVAL

Philippines is much known for its different festivals throughout the year. Our province Misamis Occidental, celebrated its first festival, namely Pa’sungko festival. The word Pa’sungko is a subanen word which means thanksgiving. It was held in our city since the capitol building was located here. It was a five day celebration and it started on the fourth day of November and was ended on November 8, 2010. It was concluded by a street dancing around the city of Oroquieta and an Inug-ug showdown at the capitol grounds.
The day before the event, the provincial government requested the MONHS principal, Mr. Santos to use the school as the temporary shelter for the 17 contingents and they also asked the teachers and some selected students to assist the said event. The following selected students are the GSP’s, BSP’s, SIGA, SAG, and some fourth year students. The following students are divided and were grouped into 17. I myself also participated to the event as part of the school’s GSP organization. I was assigned to the 2nd contingent which is the Sapang Dalaga street dancers. I am with the other GSP’s and BSP’s. We serve as the road marshal. During that day, we experience the too much heat of the scorching sun together with the other steer dancers. We feel different kinds of emotions. We are being so enjoyed, angry, happy and insulted by the spectators because we did not allow them to go closer to the dancers. We are instructed by the leader of all the road marshals to look after the spectators and not to let them across the road.
After the event, we directly went home to take a rest because the whole day is such a tiring one. Our beloved governor Mrs. Hermenia Romero bowed to hold this said festival annually during provincial charter anniversary.