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I remeber it was October (or was it November?)during the Homecoming Game. It was the day before our marching competition. So anyways, the game had already finished and a lot of people stayed after the game to see us march. Somewhere around sets 2-3, I was marching backwards 'cause we were doing the rotation, and this guy in front of me was marching way too fast but I was also marching too slow, so he stepped on my foot. I fell to the ground, and he almost ran me over!! Luckily, I got up and hurried to my spot. After the show, I cried 'cause I felt bad and I thought I'm gonna mess it up for the competition. Of course, my friends cheered me up. And the next day, I didn't mess up and we did well. Straight 1's!!

I have a ton of embarracing moments. 'll briefly list a few because, after two years of band so far, it's hard to find the most embarracing one.

Freshman year
-I Had an asthma attack during run-throughs before a competition and had to miss it. x-x

-On the way back from a late competition, I was sitting in the 'emergency window seat' on the bus (Yes, we ride the old cheezers..no charters for us..) and I accidentally pulled the red lever while I was stretching. I heard the buzzing and spazze out, bhut I quickly put it back and, luckily, everyone was too tired to fully notice.

This year
-During band camp, we were playing Medusa. (A marching basics game) The officers were watching us carefully and I was one of the last five people remaining. (We have one of the worst practice fields you could imagine.) I was marching backwards and tripped, falling flat on my butt. My clothes were stained with ashes because the school uses our practice field as a bonfire for after the homecoming game. I twisted my ankle pretty badly, but I got over it anyway.

- Just resently, I had an asthma attack right in the middle of the Christmas parade. The band parents kept holding my shoulders, but (because I coudln't speak) they didn't know that I was trying to get my inhailer. I was eventually able to mutter that I couldn't breathe and then I managed to convince them to let me take off my uniform so I could use the inhailer. (This was probably my most embarracing moment because I am very subconcious about crying in front of people and I had an attack in UNIFORM and in PUBLIC. I can't stand crying, but when you can't breathe at all, you can't hold back the tears)


These are the moments that we live for, eh?


Tis the marching band season... ><;

oh wow...well I was about to do my first solo piece in 5th grade, it was a song called Seas of Sweet Water for the Trombone. My mother had made me this embarrassing rainbow patterned sun dress for the performance....and I HAD to wear it -_-....well before I went on stage I had to go to the bathroom...I'd hate to rush my piece because of potty issues, so I went. I went up on stage to perform; I did quite well, I took my bow and turned to leave...and the audience (though not that big...small town) roared with laughter....I didn't know why but I skittered off stage fast where I was intercepted by my friend Nina who told me the back of my dress was tucked into my underwear >_<

I fell...in competion this year....I was the only one who fell all year, so I won our "groundskeeper" award. this thing was, i landed on my shoulder and it hurt quite a bit, but I didn't even know that until the bus ride home because i had been freaking out about my trumpet... sweatdrop

I can hardly breathe

Lol. I have one of these.
So like, a month ago for jazz band we were playing in town, and for the song I had a solo in my stand broke. Like the nob that held it up rolled across the room. [[ We have to stand up for solos now. Gay... ]] so like I was trying to get someone to hold my stand up and everyone was like "What?" so I came in with my solo late, messed the whole thing up, and then the whole band got lost and the song was ruined.
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Well, I make loads of mistakes, so heres a couple:

It was concert time, and the band is playing visigoths. The whole band is supposed to go Note, rest, rest, note. Well, lucky me. I play a loud, strong, staccato note on the second rest. It ended before the last note, so it was pretty obvious. The bd gave me the evil eye, and stopped talking to me. It's been over 2 weeks and he still seems to not notice me.


At a band meet, we're talking about an upcoming band trip. And once it's over, they give us refreshments. Well, I had apple juice, and I said I was going to go use the bathroom as I sat up, Just as I stood, my cup falls over, and like, 3 girls just stand there, thinking, while 2 others spazz about the mess, and like 3 others start laughing.

See, The first three were wondering how I pee'd on the table and the floor, while the last three were laughing at my perfect timing. And then it clicked with the first three, and they laughed too. I'm never going to live it down.

Ah, i think my most embarrassing moment was when we were performing and it was at the point where i had to run up front and do this swoosh thingy with a purple silk. Well, we had to turn around while swinging it and i ended up tripping over it and falling. Man it sucked. But i ended up laughing at myself anyway after halftime.

One afternoon practicing outside in the parkinglot, we were going through our second segment and there's this set where I have to switch from backward marching to foward at a certain count and when I tried switching I stumbled over my own feet and fell strait on my tushy. emo I had to roll out of the way so that I didn't get run-over by the rest of my section and then had to run for my life so as to not get trampled by the band. I was laughing it off afterwards when ppl asked if I was ok.

Other:
There was this one time that a flute soloist got lost in our show. She came in way too early and the entire band was confused! We didn't know whether to go w/the DM, or save the soloist's butt by skipping to the part where she was. Some ppl were skipping, others were following the DM so when they played their notes they clashed and sounded horrible!! The entire band was lost. Thankfully the violin soloist came in AT THE RIGHT TIME and saved all our butts. He basically said, "This is where we are; don't listen to her! Listen to the DM and FOLLOW ME!!" and we did. xd

Funny thing about this? This all happened during Pigskin AND WE STILL MANAGED A 1!! That's just how good we are, lol. *yh right* Most of us thought that we didn't deserve it and after our perfomance the flute started crying.