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 Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 6:52 pm
The athletic boosters at my school finally decided to accept that the cheerleaders, dance team, and marching band were a part of the football season experience and chose to include us in this year's football program as more than just group pictures. We actually get senior bios to put into the program.
It asks the basics -- your name, how many years you've been involved in your activity of choice, what other activities you're involved in, your best subject, college plans, awards you've received... and then it asks what your most memorable experience has been.
"Something personal about you... what's the best thing you remember about LBHS football? What's the worst? What's the one thing you would like to 'pass on' to the next group of seniors? Please use the back if more space is needed."
If more space is needed? My answer took up nearly the entire back of the page. I'm sure the athletic boosters are hoping to get a short "state championship in Miami in 2006 -- go Patriots!" for their answers, and no doubt they'll get plenty of school spirit. I decided the answer needed something more.
If they cut out everything else of my senior bio, I hope they put in my answer to that question. Everyone could care less about what clubs I'm involved in or what my best subject is -- no one's actually going to read the damn thing. But maybe they'll leave all that out and just put "the best thing I remember" in the program, and maybe that'll draw people's attention and they'll understand that, to a lot of us, being involved is more than just having school spirit; it's an indispensable part of our high school experiences -- a part that has truly helped to shape us and make us into what we are today.
My response to the question is below... but I was wondering how everyone else would respond -- what their most memorable part of band (marching, concert, jazz, whatever) has been.
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Being a part of the Lake Brantley band is an experience I wouldn’t trade for anything. Everything about it is just incredible: the energy of the football games; the memories made on the bus rides to and from away games, Miami, and DC; the people I’ve met that have truly made an impact on my life… all of it comes together to form one awesome part of my life that can hardly be explained in words.
Being in band has offered me the chance to do things I may never have had the chance to do otherwise – the chance to perform in Europe, the chance to march on the grass of Dolphin Stadium..... But it’s more than just the things I’ve gotten to do. Seeing the hours of hard work and practice pay off to produce something truly amazing – something that is the result of dozens of people all working together in precisely the same way at exactly the same moment, something of which you’re only a small part – that’s what has made being a part of band such a truly memorable experience for me.
What I would like to “pass on” doesn’t go to the next group of seniors, but to the underclassmen:
Don’t let opportunities pass you by. Don’t say to yourself, “I’ll do it next time.” There may not be a next time for everything. Enjoy it while it’s there.
Carpe diem.
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:42 pm
That's awesome. =D Our band members have always been involved with the senior night football game, and I've never heard any of them say something like that, just the normal future plans and such. That's a great thing to say, though.
Oh, I love the poll, by the way. xd
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:05 pm
We've always been involved in senior night, but never been a part of the program parents can buy.
Senior night is like, "Member of band, blah blah blah, and his/her favourite quote is..." as you walk across the field with your parents.
Haha, thanks. xD
...I just realized I left out the space between 'he' and 'told.' FML.
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 3:38 pm
Senior night is when all the seniors in the football, cheerleading, and marching band groups get announced and walk across the field with their parents or a favourite teacher or close family friend, if parents can't make it.
A guy last year almost didn't walk but we convinced him to with a good friend/teacher of his. biggrin
We have a band banquet at the end of the year where seniors talk and give things, 'wills', to underclassmen or their friends.
One guy gave hugs to everyone and a Baconator to his best friend XD
My best memory of my marching band so far?
I'd have to say the first Harris Teeter.
My band has a specific festival where we eat dinner at Harris Teeter.
Freshman year, everything went wrong that day. A bus was late, said bus broke down, we got there in just enough time to tune/snack, we sucked since it was our first festival of the season, we got on the bus to the second festival (only weekend with two in one day), got there with time to spare since they were late, sucked there too, and left around 11:00.
The windows fogged up and we had to stop at the winery to let them clear. That was weird for our director to explain to the other director who saw us XD
It was around midnight, middle of Charlottesville, Virginia. McDonalds was about to close and wasn't taking 100-ish kids. Our director was like 'OH MY GOD THEY NEED TO EAT NOOOO' so we went to the Harris Teeter across the street.
Imagine being a cashier that night, 12:30ish AM, when 100+ people walk into your grocery store wearing identical rainbow Santana tie-dye t-shirts.
Man, it was great. And we went back last year, and a freshman went in the emergency exit. Locked half the band inside somehow XD
And a colorguard girl got stuck in the little kiddy car-ride thingy by the microwaves, right as we were about to leave. rofl
If we don't go back this year due to budget cuts, we're all going to be pissed. It even made it in our page on the yearbook! "Their season includes festivals, football games, and Harris Teeter", or something like that. xD
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 7:07 pm
Oh yeah! I guess I should share my best memory...hopefully there will be a better one soon, 'cause this is only my second year.
So, we were at BOA Regionals in Towson, and it was the first year our band has ever gotten to perform for the second time at night. Our visual tech gave us this amazing inspiring speech (which I think made everyone perform a lot better) right before we went to the field. Everyone performed amazingly, and the only problem I had in that show was getting my sax hit by a flag...oops. >_> But I got back in the zone like, 2 seconds after that. =D Aaaanyway, after the performance, we were marching back to the buses. When we got there, all of our marching band staff were crying from happiness, which caused the waterworks for most other people, too. It was an amazing moment to end the great day we had. :] Full band retreat at awards was really cool, too.
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