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[14 May 2007] Election Day

Whew. Just got home from the precincts. I volunteered to help out at the polling center today (since I won't be able to vote and I just wanted to take part in the Elections in a way). This is going to be a one-time thing, that's for sure. I have to make sure that I get registered for the Presidential Elections so I won't have to help out again.

Really. Tiring is the word. I was there from 7 in the morning til 11 in the evening. Because there weren't enough PPCRV volunteers, we were given WHOLE DAY shifts. Pollwatching + witnessing the tallying of votes. Wuh. And they're even expecting me to stay and wait for the closing of the ballot box, etc., but I told our coordinator that I have a review class tomorrow (which is oh, so true, unfortunately), so she let me off.

But it was a new experience, so... there. Hahaha. I got bored. Nothing too exciting like actually encountering flying voters or candidates and their men bribing people to vote for them. The precinct I was in was clean. Baaah. But then, yey for clean elections.

Oh, haha, one of the pollwatchers tried to hit on me. I was being courteous to the other watchers in the room, you know, being one of the younger volunteers and being new in the "business". So, even if the others were around my age, but because they were new faces and were already pollwatcher pros, I was always saying po and opo when they're talking to me. Finally, humirit na si isang pollwatcher:

"Alam mo yung nagpo-po sa'kin eh nagiging chicks ko."

Like, eew? Who said anything about being his "chick"? And then he offered me water twice, even when I had my own. Tapos pag bumababa ako para pumunta sa Voters' Assistance Desk (the precinct I was in was on the 2nd floor), aba, sasabihan pa ko ng "Ingat ha." At and FC, hah! Di nga kami nagpakilala sa isa't isa, sinilip na pala ang megahumongous pollwatcher ID ko at tinatawag na kong Pattie! Yeeeeesh. He's not even cute.

Whattaday. I swear, I will get inedible ink on my finger three years from now.

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