I took the first flight to Iloilo City last April 13 to attend the GASC’s (General Assembly of Student Councils) Student Regent Selection Meet at UP Visayas in Miag-ao, Iloilo. My colleagues in UP Diliman’s student councils chose to send me as the nominee from Diliman. There are only two nominees this year, the other one is Chaba Banez, outgoing chairperson of the UP Los Banos University Student Council. She ended up being selected as UP’s Student Regent for this year after just one day of deliberations in the GASC.

Anyway, before we get to that, last April 13, I had to manage my way from Iloilo City to Miag-ao, since everyone else had gone there the previous day to attend the KASAMA sa UP (Katipunan ng mga Sangguniang Mag-aaral sa UP) National Council Meet. I did not expect the Miag-ao campus to be quite a distance from Iloilo City. It was an almost two-hour bus ride from the city to Miag-ao, Iloilo. Bang and I arrived in UPV Miag-ao way past afternoon, and we barely caught up with the rest of the KASAMA sa UP meet.