So in a post I mentioned that I was a band competition recently so this is the story of how that shizzat went down:
7:45 a.m. Clock wakes me up so that I can start getting ready for a quick morning rehearsal on the field. I press dismiss thinking that I am fully awake and ready to go, but no I lay my head back down on the pillow and fall right to sleep. I wake up 20 minutes later and I see that I only have 15 minutes to get my lunch ready and pack all the things I would need for that day(aka black socks, headphones and music player and lastly food). So of course the first thing I do is jump out of bed and fall on the ground like an idiot. I crawl to the bathroom and get up to clean my face and brush my teeth.
I slap on some makeup, and try to put my short hair back as much as possible, that took one hair tie and six hair clips. Ten minutes to go and my wonderful mother made me breakfast so I had to go eat that, I managed to shovel all that food down and not through up. ( it was toast an egg and OJ, don't laugh I really can't eat in the morning cause I feel funny all day if I do)
I make it to band 7 minutes behind schedule of when I wanted to be there. Thank goodness I still had ten minutes to be on the field, so I run and grab my flute and head out to the field with a couple trombone players, Nat and Jordan (both girls) I make it on time and I felt awesome!
Then the directors get out there and we start doing our warm up and stuff! I did all that pretty well and we start on part one of our awesome show 'How I Wonder' and I didn't have to march that but I didn't on accident. xD
So after all that stuff we headed back to the band hall to get ready, (btw I was totally watching my spot and my crush march the whole time!) so we're all dressed and ready to go and an awesome clarinet player is making a speech and I was all pumped and stuff web in the middle of his speech someone called him causing his phone to go 'beep beep' everyone laughed, not at him though.
So onto the bus we go and I didn't want to look at my crush on the way over there so I sat two seats in front of him. Then I ate half my sandwich and grapes then fell asleep with Seven Nation Army cover by the Glitch Mob blasting in my ears. If you haven't heard that song I recommend it, but fair warning it gets loud.
So after about 30 minutes of sleeping I woke up and played some games on my IPod to pass the time until we got to the competition. After that things just got crazy. So since I didn't have to march I had to help out and all them do stuff. But I think what I should point out is the big fact that it felt like 1000 degrees outside. And we had our long pants on, thank god they directors told us we didn't have to have our jackets on.
So after carrying around a heavy thingy that makes sound, I was hanging out with the other people who didn't have to march, one being my good friend Nancy who plays the clarinet. Well we had to put the plumes on the hats, and those things are annoying! So we start putting them on the hats skipping every other person to get the job done faster, and then I go back to get more and see we're almost done except for a few brass players, and one sax player. The one sax play happened to be my crush so of course I tried I avoid him as much as possible. But I was the only person near him so I had to do it! I almost fell trying to get away from him so fast. On the bright side I got a joke from Kasey D. A tube player as I was finishing up, she said: "You forgot my hat." (Tube players don't have hats, hints the joke of the matter)
So after that Nancy and I went to et water with a bass clarinet play (Swimmy). She's pretty coolio. I like her hair a lot, it's like a pixi that's a dark purple-ish red; sort of like wine. Any way after that Nancy and I were told that we going to head over to where the pit was, only we had no idea where that was, and we would have gone with our group only Mr.L told us to help him with something that it turned out he'd isn't really need help with at all.
We got completely lost so I suggested that we just head back to the band, and it was a good thing that we did because Mr.L was in his way over to the pit with Nemo and the soloist to do a sound check. So Nancy and I hiked it over with them where we met up with pit, and Trevor. (Trevor is that butt face dude that Mar-Mar thinks is attractive and the dude I have Theater with.) So we got the Soloist to sound check and then things went into double time, all I remember before the show was holding Natalie's hate and her saying something about see black dots.
During the show the people who weren't marching were standing at ease in a line, and all I can recall from that was looking at my spot being marched awesomely and my feet feeling like they had been set on fire.
After that we were all dying from the heat, but thankfully it started to rain and we head home after about four hours of doing nothing on the bus.
Now that marching season is over things are slowing down in band and picking up in theater, we are doing 'The Pajama Games' for our musical this year. And I'm hoping I'll be prop master for this musical like I was for 'Picnic'. Only bad thing is is that now I will only see my crush at the lunch table if I sit there.
