I live in Washington, near the west coast, and my high school band went to Idaho for a band contest.

I'm only a freshman, and I was playing the bass Clarinet, my first year playing it. We have two bands, the freshman band, and the other band (with all the other grades in it). so for the trip, we compined the bands into one big one. We all backed onto this nice couch bus and drove to idaho. Yay, so much fun. stare

We played Second Suite in F ( 1st, 2nd and 4th Movement.) and Fantasy on Japanse Folk Song.
I squeaked so badly and honesty thought I messed up the entire thing.

But later that day, (after a day at an amusement park).....

We won three trophies! One for out Concert band (in the high school concert band division), one for out Jazz band, and one over all (for the high school band division {there was middle school band, high school band and quier.}) And one of out jazz players won an individual award for his jazz solo!

I was so happy. My first year in high school band, and We win all our divisions! It's so awesome.

We could have never done it without our amazingly awesome band directer SWANIE!!