HONOR STUDENT. Miss Universe 3rd runner-up Shamcey Supsup thanks teachers and students of her alma mater Makati High School for the warm welcome accorded her during her visit on Monday, the day after she arrived in the Philippines from Sao Paulo, Brazil, where the beauty pageant was held. She graduated salutatorian from the school in 2003. PHOTO BY KAREN BONCOCAN
MANILA, Philippines—Miss Universe third runner-up Shamcey Supsup went around Metro Manila on Monday, her second day home after representing the country in the prestigious beauty pageant held last week.
She visited the Makati High School where she finished high school and graduated salutatorian in 2003.
Wearing lime green sun dress, Supsup arrived at her former school around 3:20 p.m. on board a black Audi sedan and was given a welcome fit for a queen by faculty members and students, as well as her high-school batchmates.
Makati City Mayor Jejomar Erwin Binay Jr. was also at the high school during the beauty queen’s visit.
Supsup’s former English teacher Edita de Jesus, her class adviser when she transferred to MHS from General Santos back in 2003, remembered Supsup as an active, intelligent and talented student.
“She was a consistent honor student… (and) was even sent to Japan as an exchange student and to Baguio for a leadership training,” said De Jesus.
Joan Guansing, Supsup’s batchmate and friend during high school, congratulated the beauty queen and wished her good luck in her future endeavors.
The motorcade, organized by the Makati City government, started from the Araneta Center in Cubao, Quezon City, and proceeded to the Quezon City Hall, the University of the Philippines campus, the Cainta municipal hall, the Makati High School and the Makati Fire Station, from where she headed back to the Araneta Center.
Supsup was an honor student in UP Diliman, graduating magna cum laude and topping the architecture licensure exams last year.
The beauty queen arrived aboard Philippine Airlines flight PR 103 Sunday night.