Let's see...we never left town for band camp. Yay southern Arizona in August. ^^;;; But it wasn't all that bad, although it did get pretty exhasuting. We went for a week and went from 8am till 10 pm every day. Outside 8 - noon, Lunch Break, Indoors 1:30 - 5, Dinner Break, Outside 7 - 10. That was the first 5 days and after that we were outside all the time for the last two days.

WE don't really get punished...just yelled at by our director and our peers. Trust me, the peer pressure to do your best is amazing. If you mess up by doing things such as moving at attention or talking, then you won't only have the director yelling at you, anyone in the band will yell at you. As our director always tells us: "You are not allowed to get tired." and if we aren't dedicated to working our hardest all the time, then we should go find a different band.