#15

116. Write about a disappointment

A couple of a weeks ago, it was SOMA week. And we had to make a float for one subject. Not that I'm bragging, but I placed my blood sweat and tears onto out float. And all of my efforts was just wasted.

We are 14 in our group. 6 of them were contestants in the SOMA pageant. And 7 of them were in the production team, including me. During the first few weeks we had o progress whatsoever. The base keeps on breaking, there were only ideas and no work it was a total mess. We only started 1 week before the parade. 1 WEEK. And all of the other members were either in a photo shoot or making the stage for the pageant.

I know that if I went with them we wouldn't even have a float for the parade. Plus there had to be a presentation. So more stress for me. Monday was our first day, we had to start on the alien of our float. WE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE ANY MATERIALS. So I had to look for scrap wood in basement. And luckily I found a long piece of plastic that was around 7ft  high. On that day we were able to finish the skeleton of the alien. But I wasn't satisfied my groupmates wanted to go home. But I didn't want to. I took a yard of chicken wire and started to mold the alien. I got a butt load of cuts from even cutting the wire. Honestly, if I hadn't started, we wouldn't have able to finish it on time.

Another thing was, my groupmates worked really slow. On the days that they helped, it took LONGER to even finish a certain component. I could have finished it in 1 hour and it takes them 3! and 3-4 people would be helping them. REALLY? It would take a person 3 hours to paper mache a triangle. Most of the week it would be just the 2 of us, me and paolo. Working on the float and we made more progress than any of them.

But at least we were able to finish our float on time.

IT DOES NOT STOP THERE. The biggest pain on my chest is that we didn't win. Compared to the other sections, our float was amazing. Really most of them were crap.

All of my blood, sweat and tear went on to that float. And the janitors and guards just broke them like it was nothing. I literally cried more than 10 times that week. I have never felt such pain and disappointment.