Issue 1 | Year 2010-2011

Replay in Words: The First Semester in Recap

by Jezi Llamas, 9A

Over the past few years, I've seen Brent flourish and grow as an educational institution. One thing

that never fails to bring a smile to my face, is seeing the bright and happy students enter a new semester

with high hopes and expectations. Personally, I have to admit that the first semester wasn’t an easy start.

Although, seeing as how I’ve been here for years, I guess for the new students that came in, life wasn’t any

easier. Facing a new year, a new school, a new life with new people, it isn’t easy. Some may have felt lost and

confused when they first came in, just as I did years ago. I still remember how vulnerable I felt, how scared I

was to face a new year in a place that was not all that familiar to me. The only thing that made it easier, was

the warm welcome of the students who have already been in the school prior to me. Brent’s Student Council

never fails to do its part in welcoming the students.

As if by tradition, a party is held during the

first quarter in order to allow the new students to

mingle. This party is more commonly known as the

“acquaintance” party. This school year, the council

added a little twist to the traditional dance party. The

first party of the year was like a time machine. Each

class was required to choose a theme and create a

performance within the chosen theme. Brent had it

all that night, from retro to futurama. It was enjoy-

able as always. The new students were able to meet

new people and make new friends. The returning stu-

dents were given a glimpse of the new era that was coming to them. Praises were awarded to the student

council, as they started the school year in style.

Next on the long list of major events for the first quarter, we

had the House Rally. Azure and Gold picked up their best foot and

competed for the first time this year. The tension was very much pre-

sent as both houses breezed through the relays, tug-o-war and cheer-

ing competition. We also had the NHS induction ceremony, which oc-

curred a few weeks after. New members were welcomed to the pres-

tigious National Honor Society and formally induced on this night. For

the students that were involved in this induc-

tion, opportunities were opened, leading to a long educational journey, as the NHS is

an internationally recognized academic society. Spirit Week followed on after, giving

the students a chance to be wacky, strutting their stuff in polka dots, stripes, jeans

and possibly even three-eyed alien hats. The first quarter was basically a fun-filled be-

ginning to the school year.

By November, the warmth and sunshine was replaced by a light and cool

breeze. Christmas was merely a month away. Exams were almost there. Halloween

approached and all the Brent Subic “monsters” gathered in a parade. Candies were

everywhere and smiles were on every face. November was not a very easy month de-

spite all this. By this time, every action was crucial. Preparations were being made for the two biggest

events of second quarter: the annual Christmas Band/Choir Con-

cert and the Lower School Christmas Production. The Christmas

Band/Choir Concert was a success, as people from all around Subic

came to watch our Middle School and Upper School bands per-

form.

The air was filled with beautiful melodies and heavenly

voices. The Lower School Production this year was called “Miracle

on Main Street”. It was adorable in every sense.

(Continued on page 2)

B R E N T I N T E R N A T I O N A L S C H O O L S U B I C February 20, 2011

2nd Semester

Year 2010-2011

▲ Azure

Gold▼

House Rally

Replay in Words: The

First Semester in Recap

1

Refugees 2

Fifth Graders Have the

World in Their Hands

2

International Coastal

Cleanup

3

Epidemic Takes Over

World

3

Pawprints 3

“Hey! Who’s That?” 4

Let’s Segregate, Let’s

Recycle: Small

Endeavors Equal Huge

Returns

5

Go Green Section 6

Ninja Cats 6

Thoughts from the

Student Council

7

Serves Up, Brent Subic! 8

Lions and Razorbacks

Dash Off to Conquer

Land

8

Table of Contents

Brent Review

Lay-Out

by Tammy Yu, 8A

and Jennifer Yoon,

Replay in Words (from page 1)

The kids worked for many weeks, and every child on stage gave their best that night. The audience enjoyed a brief moment to feel

the Christmas spirit that Brent students shared amongst themselves during those two nights. Exam

week was not far after. As the Lower School kids enjoyed the fun activities prepared for them, such

as meeting Santa Claus, the Middle and Upper School students did their best to study. The students

made every moment count and finished their exams with great determination. December ap-

proached, the second quarter of the first semester came to a close. The moment that everyone has

waited for finally arrived, and the first day of the Christmas vacation came. We were all free, at least

until the next semester.

Fifth Graders Have the World in Their Hands by Sofia Evidente, 5B

The fifth graders are doing a fascinating project in their Social Studies class. First, they glued pieces of cut newspaper on the

beach balls handed out to them. Then, they let the glue dry out for a few days and applied another layer of paper strips on the

balls. It was really amusing whenever the wind blew the beach balls filled with glue off the table - big blobs of glue would appear on

their uniforms!

Mrs. Gates started mixing different shades of blue for the fifth graders to paint on their globes. When the shades of blue

were selected, they put their globes in pairs. One student would hold up a globe with a string while the other painted his/her globe,

and they would switch places afterwards. They always panicked when their partner would let them hold the two balls while they get

another batch of blue paint, because they were worried that the balls might fall on the room’s carpet! They borrowed aprons,

brushes, and paint pallets from the art room given by one of the lower school art teachers, Ms. Denise Sagun.

I interviewed a fifth grader and she said, “This project

is awesome! I wish we could do it every time we have our So-

cial Studies block.”

The fifth graders do not do this project every time

they have Social Studies because they are also studying about

migration. They still need lots of parts to finish on their globes

because they still need to put the continents, countries, and

more.

The fifth graders are looking forward to making color-

ful and beautiful globes using the paper mache glued on the

beach balls and using different colors.

Refugees

by Sol Jenny Lee, 5A

On the 24th of September, the fifth graders and I went off to a field trip to Morong, Bataan. We

visited the Refugee Museum, and were very excited about it. The museum is about people who migrated

and were refugees. Before anything else, I'm sure that you want to know what migration and refugees

mean. Refugees are people who go to other countries, but if they stay there, they can risk their lives. Mi-

gration is moving to other countries because of education, jobs, the economy, and for many other rea-

sons.

Some of my friends told me how excited they were and how they just wanted to enjoy the trip. Some even said that field trip

made them relax a bit. We also saw the South China Sea, and there was an amazing view!

The museum had some replicas of a ship, a jail, a bunkhouse, and more. I was even

able to take some pictures since the sited were wonderful. After that, we started to have a

picnic in a small sheltered hut, because we were very hungry and thirsty! This is why a lot of us

drank the water that we had. There were no drinks during the hike. We were all exhausted,

but we finally managed to get back on the bus.

This trip was fun and also challenging, and I hope we could have another trip like this!

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Issue 1 | Year 2010-2011

International Coastal Clean-Up

by Akber Khan Cook, 12A

As another quarter comes to a close for Brent Subic, I am proud that I am able to look

back on some of the more productive events of the year thus far. Not least of those events is the

International Coastal Cleanup, which takes place annually on September 25, all around the world.

The Philippines has held a top spot in volunteer turnout for several years, second only to the

United States, and this year I am very happy to say that Brent was a part of an overwhelming vol-

unteer effort that included almost 3000 people!

It started Saturday morning at 6am, and despite the early time we were pleased to see a turnout of over 70 people, meaning

that the bus even had to take two trips to accommodate all the participants. Once we got to the beach it was clear that this was go-

ing to be a packed event. From schools to small businesses, people were showing up from all over Subic and Olongapo, teaming up

in an effort to clean up what is essentially the bay’s backyard. With a grand total of 451kg proudly and painstakingly collected by

Brent students, faculty, parents, and even alumni, we were all thrilled at what we were able to accomplish that day with some gloves

and a couple of trash bags. The beach area looked like it had a total makeover by the time the event was finished.

More than collecting trash though, I think that this event was a huge eye-opener

for the Brent community to see what was going on with our local trash disposal, and to

see firsthand what wasteful behavior and some littering can really amount to. Our hope

is that this event has created a fair amount of awareness and perspective change, prov-

ing to Brent students without a doubt that our actions have severe consequences, and

that if we really want to make a change in the world there is no better place to start in

than our own back yard.

Epidemic Takes Over World

by Zyra Park, 5B

Dengue mosquitoes are very dangerous. Almost 12,500 people died because of dengue already, and a lot of them were kids!

Dengue mosquitoes can give you very high fever, nosebleeds, and painful headaches! Dengue symptoms occur 7 days after you are

bitten.

To protect yourselves from dengue, you can put plenty of mosquito repellant like lotion or spray that keep mosquitoes away

(A good brand is OFF lotion). You can also wear long socks, long pants, and long sleeved shirts.

Places that contain a lot of dengue mosquitoes are: Philippines, Brazil and Colombia.

If you have fever, you better go see the doctor. If you have mosquitoes bites with something like bruises, that might be den-

gue! Do not panic if you have mosquitoes bites, because not all mosquitoes have dengue.

You have to be very serious about this thing! The mosquitoes are as big as flies, and sometimes even bigger. How will you

know if it is a dengue mosquito? Well, almost all of the dengue mosquitoes have white lines on their legs.

If you live near or in the rainforest, you have to be more careful because of the climate. Also, don't litter, because the mos-

quitoes may get attracted to the trash. Luckily, it is not contagious. Please watch out because it’s easy to get! Be careful!

Pawprints

by Sara Jee, 5A

Some people are looking forward to

getting a pet. In this article I in-

cluded animals that people usually

want to take care of and simple

ways of taking care of them.

Did you know? Dogs live for about 10-15 years.

If you want to get a smart puppy or a dog, I recommend that

you get one of the top 10 smartest dogs in the world.

1st Border Collie 6th Shetland Sheepdog

2nd Poodle 7th Labrador Retriever

3rd German Shepherd 8th Papillion

4th Golden Retriever 9th Rottweiler

5th Doberman Pinscher 10th Australian Cattle Dog

How to Give a Dog a Bath

First, wet the dog with warm water, and shampoo the dog (but

not too hard). Then, pour warm water over the dog or put the

dog in a big bucket. Make sure you hold the dog tightly so it will

not move. The soap might go in its ears, nose, or eyes. If you are

done with rinsing, get the towel and wrap it around the dog so it

would not get cold. After that, you may dry off the dog with a

dryer or with a towel. It will be better to comb your dog while it

is getting dry.

Dogs

It is really bad for your dog to eat food that we eat.

Some meat will be okay, but food like cookies, rice, chocolates, and coffee are not good for your dog.

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“Hey! Who’s that?”

by Bernice Peralta, 9B

When was the last time you felt out of place and maybe even a bit anxious? New stu-

dents almost always feel this way, but even those who have been here for years have had this experience not too long ago. Moving

from one grade to another can be nerve-wracking, but perhaps the most thrilling change you can go through when you are in school

is your transition from one department to another, like when you move from lower school to middle school, and from middle school

to upper school. During fifth grade, you know that you are the oldest in the Lower School department, and this is how most people

in eighth grade feel also, since they are the eldest batch in Middle School. Much to our dismay, time flies by so quickly, and before

you know it, you will suddenly feel like the youngest student again.

Different students from the same grade levels do not agree with each other

when it comes to the transition experience. "I felt so excited to be in middle school,"

uttered an elated sixth grader, while his friend declared, "I was so scared and nervous!"

Not all of us feel dizzy when someone mentions how we have grown up so swiftly. An-

other sixth grader mentioned, "I didn't feel different. I actually felt the same." Much like

a birthday, we tend to feel excited when the day draws near, but feel completely the

same once it has arrived.

As we get older, we know that more expectations and responsibilities are thrust

upon us. Do we decide to take charge, or evade those presumptions? Sometimes I feel as

if just a few weeks ago I was prepared to understand what being a kindergartner was

like. A few days ago I experienced for the first time what it was like to learn what Day A and Day B were and to have a locker to store

all my heavy paraphernalia in, and now I am finally getting used to people smiling at me and saying, "Wow! You're in high school

now?" Before I know it, I'll be inside an unfamiliar classroom in a university in a euphoric state before the lesson starts! For now,

though, I will try to enjoy moments while they last, because I might never encounter them again.

Plenty of ninth graders have already started to become more mature and dependable. "I feel as if I should be more careful

with what I do and the grades that I get," said a fellow ninth grader. An eighth grader

noted that she felt excited about the prospect of getting older and finally getting into

high school. Plenty of fifth graders feel excited about being in the middle school next

year, but not only the eighth and ninth graders feel this way. Simply moving from third

grade to fourth grade is thought of as a great accomplishment, because you feel older

and smarter.

While many of us have been here for three years or less, a lot of us have for-

gotten what it was like to be the new kid. We have a lot of new students this year, but

have you smiled at them recently, or even tried to learn their names? Have you helped

them find out where their new classroom was, or introduced them to your friends?

Who knows? That quiet new student from math class may love

baking delectable cakes as much as you do, and your new classmate that

you were introduced to at lunch just a few hours ago may actually share

an interest with sock puppets like you.

When asked how they felt about going to a new school, most of

the new students tended to have the same reaction. "I felt scared of go-

ing to a new place and meeting new people," said a new student in the

fifth grade. "I wondered how long it would take to make new friends, and

if the people are nice here!" exclaimed a new student from the ninth

grade.

Imagine that you have been taken to a new place, specifically, a

new school. You do not know where your first class will be held in. The

school map can be confusing and overwhelms you, but eventually someone volunteers to help you out. You step into your class-

room, and twelve pairs of eyes are on you. (Continued on page 5)

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New Middle School Students Angie, Trisha and Jonalyn

helping out at the International Coastal Clean-up

Lower School students hamming it up with new teacher Ms. Lisa Scannell

Tenth graders dressed up in their black & white theme at the Acquaintance Party

Issue 1 | Year 2010-2011

Let’s Segregate, Let’s Recycle:

Small Endeavors Equals Huge Returns

by Cindy Kwon, 11B and Solina Yun, 11B

It’s a rare sight to spot Brent students collecting garbage in school and

around Binictican Community. These things you call garbage are recyclables to the

Recycling Club. Ms. Calimlim, Ms. Ramos, and Mr. Cosca established this organiza-

tion due to the imminent peril which is a menace to the world; hence, environ-

mental awareness is the main thrust given to the members, and such small en-

deavor they employ equals huge return.

Every Thursday, the students go around the school and community to

gather recyclables. They collect these types: tin cans, plastic bottles, glass bottles,

tetra packs, and paper. To facilitate the segregation of these junks, Recycling Club

has placed five trash bins labeled accordingly. They are situated in four different

areas on campus: cafeteria, atrium, lower school area, and play ground.

Even if these bins are labeled, some students usually fail to throw the recyclables in the correct container. Segregation is a

simple effort the students can do in helping the environment. It is highly encouraged that everybody – students, teachers, staff,

and parents – segregates trash.

Segregating is easy, but collecting is hard labor. The Recycling Club formed committees to relieve the members of onerous

responsibilities. There are four committees in the club: Publicity, Paper, In-School, Out-School committees.

Publicity Committee is in charge of promoting the advocacy of the Club. They make and post posters, make and publicly ex-

plain power point presentations during assembly, and give significant announcements to the school body. The members of this com-

mittee are Solina Yun, Cindy Kwon, Don Kang, and Kiho Park.

Paper Committee collects paper around our campus. They have distributed boxes in every classroom which are placed near

the doorway to ease the pick up undertaking. The members of this committee are Jueon Park, Liam Nam, and Do Hyuk Kang.

In-School Committee collects cans, plastic bottles, tetra packs, and other recyclables around the campus. Their major com-

plain is that the students don’t segregate properly, leading the ants to have a fiesta all over the containers. Although bitten by ants,

they are still happy to render their service for the sake of the Earth. The members of this committee are Younghoi Kim, Kevin Kwak,

and Ted Kim.

Out-School Committee goes out of school to reach out to a bigger community.

This is the most demanding and exhausting job in the club because they go around the

streets of Binictican to collect recyclables from the houses. Even though two trucks as-

sist this committee, it still takes a while to accomplish the job because the members

proceed to five streets. They usually finish the latest soaked in sweat. The members are

Yunnie Kim, Jin Park, and Nawon Kim, Ahniyah Hiwot.

The Recycling Club is just one tiny entity in our community working for the good

of the environment. They can’t do it alone. You, a student, teacher, parent, and resi-

dent of the community, have a responsibility as stewards of God’s creation.

Let’s segregate! Let’s recycle!

We collect recyclables every Thursday.

Please segregate the recyclables properly so that it’s easier for the committees to collect.

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Hey! Who’s that? (from page 4)

You are suddenly conscious about your actions, and your teacher makes you tell everyone what your name is. Everywhere you look,

people talk about you, and the prominent silence a few seconds ago has been filled with chatter and whispers. If you can imagine

this, then surely this can motivate you to help any new student.

Who knows? That quiet new student from math class may love baking delectable cakes as much as you do, and your new

classmate that you were introduced to at lunch just a few hours ago may actually share an interest with sock puppets like you.

Go Green Section

by Bernice Peralta, 9B

Welcome to a new school semester! This year, I am introducing a new section to our newspaper that may benefit our school

and a lot of people. This will be the beginning of the "Go Green Section", and listed within it are little things that you can do to help

improve our environment. These little acts may be small, but if a lot of people do them, they can make a big impact to the world.

1. Reuse your notebooks. Do you have any notebooks that you used from last year? If so, check for any blank pages. You can use

them for scratch paper. If you have only used a few pages from a notebook, rip these pages out and reuse the notebook. Not only

will you save money from having to buy a new notebook, but you will also not waste as much paper. This way, trees won't have to

be chopped down.

2. Purchase a reusable water container. This is a very efficient way to stay hydrated. You can always refill it whenever you feel

thirsty, instead of buying numerous amounts of water bottles. Water bottles are made of plastic, and a lot of them are taken to gar-

bage dumps and landfills if they are not recycled properly.

3. Try to limit the time of your air conditioner usage. Aircons utilize a lot of energy and electricity, and promote global warming be-

cause they release a lot of heat and numerous damaging gases.

4. Try not to ride your car to school. If you can, try to walk or ride your bike to school. This way, you can save gas, and harmful

greenhouse gases will not be released into the atmosphere.

5. Turn off the lights in your house when you do not need them. If you are going to leave your house, check if all the lights in your

room and in other places of the house are turned off. Who knows how many hours you will be gone? Also, try and unplug all the

electronics that you are not using. Did you know that these electronics still use electricity if they are plugged, even if you do not use

them?

6. Avoid using gadgets and have an outdoor adventure. On a beautiful sunny morning, would you rather stay inside with your eyes

glued to your laptop or play outside with your family or friends? You will not only save electricity, but you will also be active and have

fun doing it!

7. Save water! Turn off the tap when it's not being used. Don't let your faucets run while you wash your face or brush your teeth.

You will be saving a lot of water by doing just this!

If you want to be friends with the

hamster, don’t touch it the day you bring it home. The next day, put food in the cage, so your hamster can eat.

If you put the food in your hand, the hamster will climb on

your hand and eat from there!

Hamsters In Your House Wash its house once every 3 to 4 days. Take out the

small hay and rinse the cage with water. Wipe it clean

until there is no water in the cage.

Put the hay and the other things back in.

Pawprints (from page 3)

Hamsters You have to feed your hamster 3 times a day (2 times

if you use mixed food). You can feed seeds to them, but don’t feed them food like gum, chocolates, and

cookies.

How to Give the Hamster a Bath Hamsters are not supposed to get wet! You can

buy chinchilla bathing sand so your hamster can have a sand shower.

Did you know?

Hamsters can live for up to 4 to 5 years

(but it depends on how you take care of it).

Cats Some people feed cats milk,

but the milk should not be milk for humans. It has to be milk for cats.

Did you know?

Cats usually live for up

to 12 to 15 years, but some

can live for 21 to 25 years!

How to Give Cats a Bath First, wet the cat with warm water, and use

soap. Rinse the soap off with warm water. When you

dry your cat, don’t put a hot hairdryer near the cat,

since cats are more sensitive than people. Cats do

not like to take baths, so you need to make sure that

you don't let them escape! You can give the cat a

bath once or twice a week or when the cat smells

very bad.

Cleaning the Bowl You can clean it once a week or whenever it gets

dirty. When you change water, you have to put water

in a bottle and leave it there for more than 2 days

first. If you use fresh water that hasn’t been kept in a

bottle for more than 2 days, the goldfish might die.

Did you know?

Fish sleep with their eyes open,

since they do not have

eyelids like humans.

Feeding You can feed fish food to your pet, or rice that is already cooked. If you give the fish

a lot of food, it will die. The fish’s memory

is only 3 seconds, so it forgets if it ate

food or not.

If your gold fish lives for 1 year, that means the gold fish is

20 to 30 years old in people age. The normal age of a gold fish is 20 to 30 years old, but if you take it care of it very

well it can live until 45 years old.

Goldfish

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Ninja Cats

by Rali Peralta, 7A

Issue 1 | Year 2010-2011

Thoughts from the Student Council

by Hayen Kim, 7A

Student Council is there to support the student body, and there have been a lot of things happening in the first semester for

the student council. We have done a lot of events with the MS and US students involved.

As the 1st semester of school year 2010-11 began, we had our first beginning event with the Acquaintance party. This year, the

party has been running differently. We had no more dancing or different booths, but we had each grade level performing on the

stage. All of the students in each grade were involved to perform, and it was such a fantastic performances.

We also had such a fun Spirit week. The Brent Subic students came with one spirit by wearing different clothes chosen for

that day.

Student Council members had to come up with their own projects (Charity inside the school). As the youngest and newest

member of the student council, I was quiet confused with what is a charity. After couple of weeks has been passed, each member

had different ideas about charity. One of the ideas, mine was to run Brentonian by every month, but Brentonian is a newspaper that

can be run ONLY by the teachers, that I joined the Brent Review club to run the Brent Review newspaper. My goal for doing this pro-

ject is to involve everyone in the Brent newspaper which every students can edit there special news, and to make the Brent Review

paper more interesting for lots of people to read.

We also have been doing lots of fundraisings. I was quite confused what to do at the first fundraising that I was having a lot

of problem jumping in for helping. Although I wasn’t able to help the first fundraising with the Korean Halo-halo, I made handmade

bookmarks and clay accessories. I’ve learnt how I should run the fundraising by doing the main work of the 2nd fundraising.

Being part of the Student Council is such a pleasure. Though I am still having lots of troubles about what to help and what to

do, but I like what I am doing even though it is hard sometimes. But still, the one who keeps on trying wins at last.

Save Paper!

As most of you know, we have to charge for papers

that we photocopy or print in the library this school year.

Many people have complained about it. First, we should

know why we have put prices for each piece of paper. Lots of

teachers have caught papers that were printed a lot, without

any necessity, such as a copy of a paper printed 40 times

without any necessity. This means that stu-

dents have been wasting a lot of paper. Did

you know that each piece of a paper takes

hundreds of years to recycle? Did you know

that we need to cut lots of tree trunks to

make papers? Save the Earth! Save the pa-

per! Don’t print so many copies of a page

which is unnecessary!

Proper Uniform Code

There are many ways that we can take pride in our-

selves and our school. One of them is to wear a proper uniform.

According to p.51 and 52 of the stu-

dent handbook, it says things like; The

skirt length should be no shorter than

two inches above the middle of the

knee”, “Boys’ shirts must be tucked in

at all times.” There are lots of ways

how we can look good without break-

ing the dress code. Keep yourself pre-

sentable by wearing the uniforms

properly! Don’t just show yourself off.

Have pride and be a member of Brent

School.

Lions and Razorbacks (from page 8)

A few more runners after, Michael Wesley Cabangon of Brent Manila finished at seventeenth place right before Cedrick Tubig of

Brent Subic who dashed off at eighteenth place. About ten to fifteen minutes after, the last runner, Mitchell Porter, finished the race

at 38 minutes and 30 seconds.

"It was a great race." declared Father Michael. Indeed it was. Although Brent Manila bagged the gold, Brent Subic did not

give up easily. After a successful meet, the runners were obviously famished. Some of them went down to the gym to freshen up,

but most of them sprinted to the cafeteria to grab some breakfast. Excitement filled the room as everyone chatted about the race

and the results. Afterwards, the Brent Manila team packed their swimsuits and headed to Camayan Beach to have some fun in the

sun after a tiresome morning. A few hours passed and the runners returned with satisfaction imprinted on their faces. The Cross

Country party began at 6 pm, a couple of hours after the runners arrived back at school. Again, the party filled with games, mud

fights and everything else was fun. The night went by quite fast, and by 10:30 pm, the athletes of Manila headed to bed just as the

Subic athletes went back to their homes to rest. The following morning, the Brent Manila athletes were given time to shower and

have a morning jog. By about quarter to eleven, the Manila runners were required to board the bus. By 12 noon, the team was on

their way home. The bus reached Brent Manila at 2 pm, and the trip was officially over. The Brent Manila runners were very satisfied

with the results and the warm welcome that Brent Subic has given them. We may not have been victorious in our attempt to take

first place, but we definitely won some new friends and acquaintances. Congratulations Razorbacks!

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Serves Up, Brent Subic!

by Sophia Hsu, 8A

The game is beginning and the score is 2 to 6. The Baguio team is winning! After a while, the Brent Baguio team finally missed a

serve and the score is now 3 to 6. Ramona Kabigting, a senior in the Brent Subic team made an amazing serve and now the game is

heating up. The game continues with Subic making consecutive good serves. Moments later, the score is 7 to 9, Subic still behind by

two points. Subic catches up with 11 to 11 and the game continues to be in action. Diana Cho made an amazing serve and Brent Subic

has won the first set!

Jinny Kim starts the second set with a serve, the score becoming 1 to 0. Diana Cho followed made three incredible serves.

After she misses the fourth serve, the score becomes 5 to 2. The Baguio team

makes three successful serves but misses the fourth serve. The score now is 13 to

15. Once again, Subic is behind. Tia Benjamin makes a serve but we eventually lost

it. We got the ball back and Felicia Lin makes some good hits! A Baguio represen-

tative is injured and subs out. The game continues with Jinny Kim serving. She

makes in all her serves and the score is 20 to 19. Brent Baguio tries to catch up,

but the Subic team did not let this happen. The game is over and the score is 24 to

15! By 9, Subic wins all three sets. Brent Subic takes first place for the girls' vol-

leyball game. The game is over! Good Job Razorbacks!

Lions and Razorbacks Dash Off to Conquer Land

by Jezi Llamas, 9A

Brent International School has always paid great tribute to the arts and athletics. Brent teaches the basics of some very well

known sports like Basketball and Volleyball. This year, I decided to tackle the sports section of the newspaper, simply because this

particular topic is somehow foreign to me. Some students choose to excel in athletics, some more than others, yet a classic exam-

ple, I believe, still involves running miles in order to prove one's stability, endurance and perseverance. On the 18th of September, a

cross country meet was held in Brent Subic, and I was fortunate enough to be present during this event. The night before, upon ar-

riving in Subic a runner from Brent Manila, said, "We're ready to conquer new land!" I was anxious to see whether or not they truly

were.

The meet began at 8 am with the Middle School runners running first. I was not able to watch them start, yet on my way to

the school, I saw runners going past my car. Hardship and struggle were very much present on their faces. Despite arriving late, I

was able to watch the Upper School runners begin their warm-ups. The Manila team did their warmups alongside the Subic run-

ners, sprinting back and forth across the campus parking lot. When the time came, Mr. Stephen Davis, Brent Subic's Student Activi-

ties Director, called out to the athletes and asked them to prepare at the starting line. The runners took off at the sound of the horn.

The Manila runners started ahead of the Subic runners, and the wait for the next Upper School first placer would finally be deter-

mined. There we all were, students and teachers, all eager to see who would cross that finish line first. Despite the scorching heat

from the sun, we all waited patiently for the first runner. As I waited, I had a small chat with Brent Subic's Religious Studies teacher

and TOK advisor, Father Michael Rossouw. "They have trained hard," said Father Michael. "Our Subic team has had their best times,

and I believe they will continue to." Ten minutes passed and we all anticipated the first runner to have crossed the halfway

mark. Ten more minutes after, a faint vision of a guy in maroon appeared. As he drew closer and closer, we all new that Manila

would win for the first place. Tim Doberman lead Brent Ma-

nila to victory, and had let his school conquer the new land,

so to speak. The second runner approached ...and he was

once again a guy with a maroon uniform, as two more run-

ners in maroon were right behind him. Subic was behind and

was obliged to catch up! A runner from Brent Subic named

Sam Cho came in at fifth place, while Louis Loubes followed

at sixth place, Juan Ong from Brent Manila stole seventh

place, and Alberto Montilla took eighth place. Indeed, Brent

Manila is on fire and Brent Subic is attempting to catch up!

Peter Kwon of Subic stole the show at eleventh place after

three consecutive Manila victories. Joshua Kim came in at

twelfth place as two more from Brent Subic arrived as the

Manila runners catch up. (Continued on page 7)

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