I like the fact that APC went all-out and actually invited a celebrity to be our speaker. When I heard Benjamin Alves was going to be our speaker for the day, I was all ???? because I honestly didn't know who he was because I didn't watch local movies and shows much. However, when they told me that he was the actor from the movie, Sana Dati, I realized who he was. Anyway, I did not expect him to be a writer at all, but when he read his poem for us, all I could say was "oh my God." There were students who did the slam poetry too, and all their poems made me react in such a way.

     One group's main point in the poem was about falling in love. It was a tragic poem though, because they either let the person go, realized they loved someone when it was too late, or suffered from one-sided love. They were hurt and they didn't end up with the person they love, sure, but I feel the need to stress this out: try falling in love with someone who doesn't know you - who doesn't even know you exist. Anyway, I'm not going to talk about that because I know a lot of close-minded people would react on it.

     The second group connected love to a book. This was my favorite (even if the students' voices were a bit soft and they weren't very synchronized) because I know. I KNOW what they're trying to say because that's how I think of love too. It's like you drown in the feeling of love, just like the way you'd drown in a book. Books end, yes, some even tragically, but when you really love someone, you would read your love story again and again no matter how painful the ending is.

     Finally, the third group (or should I say duo??? because there were only two people?? IDK) made a point to make the listeners see that we are all humans. People are different from one another but we are all living, breathing humans. Being different doesn't make anyone less like a real person.

     Poetry is a beautiful thing. Words are so beautiful especially when they're sincere. I love how people express what they're feeling through writing and I love it more when people write BECAUSE of the person they love.

Here are a few of my favorite lines from Benjamin Alves' poem:

"Your smile was like the stars in the sky."

"Learning what she means even when she doesn't know what she means"

"Love is the only heaven on earth."

"Poetry is love written on paper."