To celebrate the end of Filipino History Month, Pagsikapan, CSUDH’s own Pilipinx-American Student Community joined over 40 other student-run organizations from campuses in California, Nevada, and Arizona in the 34th annual Friendship Games.
The event, which encourages friendly competition between the organizations, celebrated Filipino culture and Spirit, Pride, Unity, and Friendship ( S.P.U.F ). Held at Cal State Fullerton since its founding in 1985, various colleges came to play five different games, perform dances and skits, and even watch up-and-coming Filipino entertainers. Every organization attends in hopes of winning an eight-foot trophy to bring back to their school
Picnic Games such as The Nasty, where teams had to transfer a baton among their teammates by only using their legs, and Big Groundhog, where participants had move on their knees underneath their teammates to the opposite end of the field, take up most of the day.
But even if you’re not interested in physical sports, there were other ways to enjoy the event. There was a skit portion, where each school performed and showed off their S.P.U.F. and many of the organizations use a theme to streamline their performances. For example, Pagsikapan’s theme was based off of Travis Scott’s "Astroworld."
Joshua Manarang, an advisory member for Pagsikapan, has been attending the Friendship Games for two years and finds the event a great way to meet with other Pilipnix-American organization, as there are groups from Northern California, Nevada, and Arizona.
This was officially Pagsikapan’s second year participating in the Friendship Games. While Pagsikapan has been around since 2016, it wasn’t until 2018 it began to actively participate. Of course, the fact that it’s only their second year didn’t stop the club from having fun and giving it their all at the event.
“You kinda go into the environment of [like] excitement, and pride not only Filipino pride but with your school pride. “ Rebecca Ramirez said, “ Like us, we’re a smaller school but we didn’t let that stop us, we were being as loud as everybody else.”
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