*photos at the end of the article! credits to Briza Gift Libre, Cheska Geli, and Francis Rigor. 
Campus Night is an annual event brought to us by Lifebox—a nationwide campus organization that is passionate about preparing students for LIFE. They not only teach, coach, and empower students in the areas of leadership, integrity, faith, and excellence but they also give students a chance to have fun.
According to Lifebox Cebu’s Campus Director, Cesar Bordalba Jr., that as part of their passion to serve the youth, they organize this campus night every July as a treat to the students from all over Metro Cebu to be with each other.
And this year’s special guests were Hawaiians who spent a part of their time, talents, and their famous Hawaiian macadamia nuts with the Filipinos. They helped decorate the venue of the event and also played some of their most common songs back in Hawaii, like Aloha Oe, Kaulana na Pua, and a lot more. They taught the students how to dance the “skank”, a famous Hawaiian dance that made the students dancing. They also danced to the tune of “Hukilau” (another famous Hawaiian song) as part of their sharing the Hawaiian culture to the Filipinos.
As this years’ special guest, the . From people whose lives had been extremely different from ours, whose culture and currency doesn’t match to ours but whose goal to serve students and young people are exactly like ours.
According to Andrè Peña, a student from Cebu Normal University and a Lifebox member said that she saw many mindsets broken and hearts turned toward God as the students listened to the speakers and got inspired with their lives.
While Jet Ababon, a University of the Visayas student, added that he never expected the Campus Night to be that fun, that students can actually be so happy while they’re partying with right people and doing right things.
Moreover, Jonathan Cimafranca-a student from the University of San Carlos who attended Campus Night for the first time said that he was overwhelmed as he really felt God’s unconditional love through the lives of the people at the campus night.
For the Hawaiians who were the special guests of the said event, they said they were really happy and blessed to be part of such historic gathering of students from all over Cebu.
One of the hosts, Joshua Stacy De Gracia who is a Hawaiian look-alike of Cesar Montano, and the founder of Know God Know Love (knowGodknowLove.com) shared, “my experience of being a co-host during the campus night was kinda scary especially that I had to say Cebuano words. However, I’m glad that the audience had grace on me when they came out. It was an honor to host with mai-mai and khen because they had “mad” talent.”
Well, it has been implied that Cebuanos are really talented and the audiences surely had grace on him and were even amazed that even if he grew up in America he was able to appreciate and speak the Cebuano language.
All the students who attended Campus Night 2010: Hawaiian Special were really inspired by the lives of these Hawaiians; namely, Jayson, Francis, Joshua, Justin, Chad, Noah, Sean, Patrick, Chung, Kailene, Welly, Julius, Josh, and Arnel. They deserve a really big round of applause for what they’ve sacrificed and how they’ve worked with Lifebox Cebu for this event and more.
We were not only amazed at the talents they’ve shared but also motivated by the examples they’ve set for each of us.
Surely, Campus Night 2011 would be as fun and historic as this year’s campus night. Thanks to our beloved Hawaiian kapamilya!
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