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Our first game is this friday and it's AWAY. sad I'm really nervous.

The band is doing pretty well, especially since over half of our band is freshman or new members, but the drumline has had it a little rough.

We only just found a MAJOR issue with our music like a week ago and just fixed it last practice. We found out that our music was three bars off. Plus, the three freshman of drumline (all basses) haven't learned their music and one is hardly ever at practice. And the entire band has hardly ever played through the 1st song without Dr. Beat and without a drum major, it's crucial that the drumline pick up the slack.

Oh, and we haven't looked at the stands music yet, which I found to be really weird, since we normally play it during band camp.

But other than all that, I guess I'm ready sweatdrop

Ahhh.. yes. In the middle of our first song on the field, I was doing my sabre quad, which I'm uber good at btw, and I got too nervous and tossed it and it landed half a yard line <-- That way. lol. Almost killed another guard girl.

Our first game was last Saturday. It went REALLY well compared to the one last year.

I'd have to say the most embarrassing thing was bringing my sticks up on the wrong beat.
I did it a measure ahead of when Bassline was supposed to bring theirs up. And this was during the percussion feature so were at the VERY front of everything. It was also aired on live television being that we were at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
So I ended up doing this weird wave thing with my sticks >>; But that was really the only mishap.

Not first game, but more of third game. So, yesterday we had an away game. I almost died via my BD. I forgot my gloves at school. Normally, I put them with my hat and gauntlets so I have less things to carry, but this time I was too busy so I just set them on top and was going to wile he was sending people out to the bus. Well, I moved my stuff around because there was gum under the seat I was sitting on(we get ready in the auditorium. We have to wear shorts and a current band shirt underneath our unifors) so I was moving to the middle of my 3 seats. Well, I think my gloves fell because I forgot they were there, and I never checked to see if I had them. I didn't realize it until we were on the bus and about halfway there. And of course, who brings an extra pair of gloves on the bus? So by this time I was in panic mode, trying to keep from screaming(we have silent bus rides there) and it got worse when I stil hadn't found some when w e pulled up. The whle time I'm just like "I'm dead. I'm sooo dead! Mr. May is going to kill me! I'm so dead!"(And it was also kind of funny because I predicted my death on tuesday when I fell up the stairs. Yes, up. I has been a long week.) And finnally, we are getting off the bus and the only drum major I like was sitting there waiting to get off and there is a bit of a traffic jam. I say and she asked whats up, and I show her my gloveless hands. "I'm dead." i told her, and she hands me her pair of black gloves, because they have to wear white ones. I am eternally grateful for her now. She litterally saved my life. They were a bit faded and didn't have holes, but it was better then death by band director. i managed to play as much as I could. The more fingers I had down, the harder it was to get the note out. And I know the video we are going to watch to see how we did will have a lot of squeaks, thanks to me, but at least I was trying.

This didn't happen to me at the first football game. It was my freshman year and I left my clarinet in the instrument room because I thought that the two people who were in charge of the instrument trailer were going to take care of it. Well, I was wrong. I ended up having to march with a spare clarinet belonging to opposing school. Of course, I was faking (no mouthpiece), but I ended up having to run three laps for it next practice (I had also been late for inspection). Oh yeah, there was also the time (still freshman year) at a competition when I forgot to pop my clarinet down at the end of the opener. And, oh yeah, I was RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE DRUM MAJOR! *shudders at the memory* Annndd, just last Friday, my shoe got untied in the middle of the opener. Thankfully I didn't trip or anything...

Not the first football game this year, but our first on-feild performance of the year.

It was raining buckets, and had been for about three days. Seriously, all of us were soaked. Well, the plan was that we would run onto the feild in a sort- of V, with me and the other tuba leading the charge. Then we would stop at the point of the "A" we were making and everyone else would fall into line around us.

But, yes, it was raining, and I totally biffed. While wearing the Sousaphone. Me falling is incredibly obvious in the video. There are 2 tubas then..suddenly...there's only 1 tuba. I got back up and nothing was hurt or dented, so it wasn't too bad, but that was my first time falling down in band.