Cebu Country Club Expedition

We are joining the Cyberfair 2007 by Intel. The fourth year students were divided into 20 separate groups. I belonged to group 5 of 4-Gonzalez. The group was comprised of Paul Andrew Gutib, John Albert Metoda, Dan Henry Montaño, and Ralph Anthony Zambrano. The group was made of 4 boys, 4 boys who really enjoy computer gaming. Think of the thing that we could do to put off the project? (hehe..) We named our group as the golpgrup. (The reason for this is very obvious!)

Our group was assigned to 3 places for our cyberfair project. These were Cebu Golf and Country Club, Cebu Country Club, and Alta Vista Golf and Country Club. As we received our assigned places to research about, an idea came to me. It said that researching these said places would mean expenses, great expenses! The three are all golf courses in Cebu. Think about it, golf is an expensive sport. Going to extravagant places like those would really need expenditure.

To start our research, our group looked for the contact numbers of these establishments in the internet. John Albert, our official telephone spokesperson, called up Alta Vista, but they didn’t allow us. (I do not know how Eldee’s group was permitted in Alta Vista.) So that means we have 2 places left. We looked for Cebu Golf and Country Club. But to no avail, we couldn’t find Cebu Golf and Country Club. (I think Cebu Country Club and CEbu Golf and Country Club are just one place.). That leaves us one place – Cebu Country Club. At last, Albert contacted the place. We knew that a certain Mr. Samuel Darza is the manager of the organization. Now we can write a letter to ask permission to include their establishment.

Time passed (including the semestral break), and still we haven’t gone to CCC.

Early February, we went to CCC to interview Mr. Darza or any reliable personnel and to take pictures. But sadly, Mr. Darza wasn’t there to approve our permission. So the lobby guard took the letter and said that he will just give it to Mr. Darza (our contact numbers were written in the letter). We received a text message that we were now allowed to go there. When we went there, we weren’t allowed to get in because there was a time allotted for us. But we didn’t know about it. Because of our disappointment, we sour-graped the place (e.g. “The outside was really ugly!” and “We hope your establishment will be burned!”). Actually, the outside was really ugly. Fortunately, there was no class in February 14. We went to CCC. At long last, we were allowed to go inside.

One maintenance personnel was assigned to be our tour guide. We went inside the lobby. There was a miniature design of the whole of CCC. He explained to us that CCC was really big since the entrance is in Banilad and the tip was already Mandaue. It was really big! After, we went to see what we really aimed to view, the golf course. The interior was an exact opposite of the exterior. The grasses there were very nicely grown. A variety of grasses were planted there to give the golf course a very green appearance. Then our tour guide led us to one of the lakes there. In the middle, an island was artificially made for added beauty. It was really beautiful. We didn’t go to the other holes because it was pretty much the same.

It didn’t matter that our tour guide was just a maintenance personnel because he really knew every path there. He led us to the places that were not obviously there. He led us to the swimming pool and the golf cart parking area by going through the plants.

That was a brief summary of our expedition to the Cebu Country Club.