My Post Ateneo Bonfire Night Experience
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I can still be thankful that it didn’t rain on the event itself as we got to see the fireworks display by the Church of the Gesu. I still had frustrations though, the mud was really a hindrance to celebrating this event to the fullest. Buying food was like a pilgrimage walking on mud and sacrificing your beloved pair of shoes and jeans along with that. To add, with the grade school, high school and college community cramped into one space, it was really just hard to find familiar faces on the field (not unless you guys and gals met right before entering the field.). For some strange reason, the Bellarmine Field was a dead spot for mobile phones and guess where did I find a signal?
At the Church of the Gesu. 
What a place of sanctuary it is!
There is nothing much to say about the event, but more of the mud experiences in and out of the Bellarmine field. It’s like most people were looking for faucets by the college chapel, nearby restrooms like the one at Berchman’s to wash off their feet and their shoes. I cleaned my leather shoes when I got home and it took me some time to clean all the mess from my shoe and our bathroom floor that I had to mop. 
I got really tired with not having to sit down for quite some time and barely eating and drinking anything but Pepsi because of the long lines nd the mud. Having a photo-op with the team was a major failure that night. *sniff*
I just hope that Ateneo will also bag the title next year and if there’s gonna be another Bonfire Night, I hope that it doesn’t rain. And oh, have you heard about the stories and pictures about some die-hard Ateneo Alumni writing names of DLSU players on the bonfire wood?
Tsk tsk.
Sad.
I don’t want to dwell on that incident, maybe it was just for fun or what, I dunno. But for me…it’s just overkill.
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LOL. Yeah! I was totally surprised Mark! 
I hope to bump into you some time again..err not a deer surprised by a car’s headlights anymore.! hahahah
That’s great to know that you had fun pero dapat nag rubber shoes ka or nagpaa na lang. hehehe.
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Yeah! It was better off going barefoot like hobbits than wearing shoes or flipflops. But then we just decided to get out of the muddy field and watch from the Church of the Gesu.
If only my girlfriend and I were wearing flip flops, we would have braved the mud. So the team better win it next year so that we’ll go to the bonfire in shorts and slippers. First timer kasi. :p 16 years in the Ateneo and has only gone to the bonfire once in all the few instances that Ateneo won the championship.
But yeah, hopefully we can meet again without any surprises next time.
A fun and muddy night. It was a big mistake on our part, really. but the Lasallites overreacted too.
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@Em- Yeah those boots from Plueys are really nice!
@rain- Yep. It was really a mistake for the people who did that and for the people in charge of monitoring the bonfire setup to tolerate such thing. I’m quite surprised about the ‘added wood’ to the bonfire issue really…even if I was on the event, I didn’t get to see the bonfire up close.
What I just don’t like about the issue is that others would still nag about other issues against Ateneans than just the bonfire incident. :p Tsk tsk.
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