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 Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 6:35 am
Just had our first performance last night at the big rival football game, and we rocked house! Just about peed myself out there but hey I made it.
How about you guys?
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Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 7:45 am
*Cries* I got sick right before we went on. Almost passed out and was dizzy up until halftime. It was an away game. I didn't get to march, and i cried a bit as I watched them go on the field without me. Needless to say, next time, if I pass out I pass out. I do not want to watch them go onto the field and play. It really felt like I was abandoning them and letting everyone down.
One of our freshman made it worse. She yelled at me. "Don't ever leave me again! I didn't know where I kept looking for you, and you weren't there!"
And yeah, I have a feeling she wasn't watching the DMs.
i also felt like it was my fault when the woodwinds played a cool part in our closer(we did opener with drill and stood still in a set for our closer, then the anthem.) and you could barely hear te woodwinds, let alone the clarinets. True, they were turned away, but I still should have been able to hear them.
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Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 8:02 am
It didn't go horribly... But It could've gone better...
The trombones have a follow the leader move that is like
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and yeah... trombones did fine getting around to the back,
but all the saxophones were drifting back in the front line ( and they we on the home hash ) so we beat the ******** out of the back of their heads biggrin ( My section leader was taking an angle back to stop from hitting them but they were drifting back further and further so his inner slide broke off :[ ... good thing it was his peashooter and not his pretty tenor or the school's tenor )
The other team's fans seemed to like it though :]
We performed our first movement, marched most of the 2nd, but played all the way through... They were screaming as soon as we started our taps off...
Made me happy xD ( until I stepped in a giant mud pit on the edge of the field )
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Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 11:27 am
I forgot to say about the only good thing that happened:
So at halftime we went to the opposing stands to watch their show, and after they played we mingled and made friends with random people. I was extremely hyper. Apparently, I should not sit out instead of marching. I almost exploded. But, the cool part was my 8th grade student band teacher was one of the directors(they had 1 and 1-2 co-directors. Like, they were all teachers and payed. I don't know how that works) so I got to see her again(we all loved her while she was there, and were sad when she left) and then I saw my friend from 8th grade, who is a year younger then me. He was teh one who made me cry on the last day of eighth grade.
We rode the bus together, and I was doing perfectly fine leaving all my friends. I was going from a school across town in a special program where some schools allow students to come from all over town with free transportation to school to my neighborhood school. I knew only one of my friends was going to be there, and I would probably never see most of them again. Well, while I was getting on the bus he just had to say "I'll never forget you!" It made me cry.
But I saw him again! I was so happy! We spent the whole time catching up and going over old memories.
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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 7:52 am
Our first performance (home game) is tomorrow and we are so ready cause yesterday's pratice was KICK @$$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We got all of pregame (drill and music), and 3 out of 4 songs in our show/competition performance (drill and music) and that's just all in little over a month. Our band director was so happy he had to censor himself. It was so cool! We are gonna blow everyone's minds away tomorrow and make them forget there ever was a football game going on!!!!!! m/(>.<)m/
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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:10 am
aaah...first performances are always nerve racking...fortunately i still have yet to go through that lol
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