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today was our first marching band competitions, beside the home football game yesterday (in which the varsity team pretty much did horribly), but that doesn't count. we did have practice performing in front of the crowd. so, today, we went to 2 competitions: Lake Park's HS "Joust" competition, and Naperville Central's Benedictine University's "Marching Classic". here's the foreshadowing for a future list:

Lake Park:

• apparently its in roselle
• we had to wear, what mr. moore calls them, trousers on the bus
• we have big black hat boxes
• i keep hitting tab cuz of computer programming now
• it was cloudy, which was a sorta good thing
• our jackets are tight and stuffy
• i hate gauntlets
• ...and the hats
• the show....really not that good; our anchor was lopsided, the hook was unrecognizable(we got 7th out of 8th in the AA)
• my hair kept falling off/out
• i ate lots of chips
• i left my water bottle on the metal toilet paper holder thingy

Naperville:

• its in naperville
• i wish we get more water breaks
• apparently there's a difference between college and high school hash lines
• we messed up a lot
• i had like 3 water bottles and drank em all at dinner
• we went back to the field and watched the AAA and college bands
• the western Illinois college one (haha, the purple people), there was this girl who lit the ends of her baton on fire and did her routine with that
• award time
• 3rd place...nope we didnt win,... 2nd place=FREMD HIGH SCHOOL, and everyone in our group jumped up and screamed in shock(?). lets just say, we were definitely the loudest.
• apparently, fremd never won a marching band award for a LOOONG time, so yay
• bus 3=the loudest, we were belting out the movements....