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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....

BAND CAMP WEEK!!

Not technically a freshman yet, 7 more days till school starts. but, this week was band camp! the vikings marching band is performing Pirates this year, which is kinda ironic, but it's awesome. my feet feels soo sore now, not to mention the mosquito bite that somehow got to the bottom of my foot....so, i play the flute, which is really annoying to get good posture. the flute has to be parallel to the ground and stuff. i guess the trombones are harder though, their instruments are like 50 pounds. on the other hand, clarinets have it so easy :(

Day 1
i live close enough to Fremd, so i walked there. but, halfway there, i realized i forgot my flip folder with all my music, so i sprinted all the way back home. i started freaking out since i couldn't find it, but then i found it :P by the time i got there, it felt like 90 degrees... at least our section leader brought a cooler for our water. thank god for the invention of ice. anyways, that day we practiced basics cuz of us newbies, and we learned half of Karn Evil. Woot!

Day 2
it was a drizzly day. like it rained, but it wasn't poring rain, so we still stayed outside. some of the piccolos claim that the rain makes the keys seem more stickier, but all it did for me is make my flute look dirtier...we, quote, roughly finished Karn Evil. then, more basics, and then PIRATES MOVEMENT ONE FINISHED! it was exciting :)

Day 3
too bad it wasn't a rainy day again. there was some breezes, but mostly it was a humid day. cool thing was, all the flutes and clarinets wore green! so, we practiced Karn Evil in which i actually kinda remembered where i was supposed to go :) then, practiced Pirates Mvmt 1, and started on MOVEMENT TWO. the one with a huge drum feature, and a pirate ship prop (haha, actually in my opinion, it looks more like 2 bunk beds right now). i luv how during the drum feature when the percussionists and color guard are practicing, we all were practically dying of thirst, and everyone ran to get some water (me, some ice from the cooler) during a 30 seconds water break. if only we could have band camp in the fall, morning, or at like five :)

Day 4+5
totally humid and hot, as in like 95 degrees both days. you really wouldn't wanna see a picture of me when I'm sweating, not a fun sight. that's all i could think about for those 2 days, the heat, and when we could have a water break. oh yea, and we sorta did 3rd movement.

Day 6
last day, so we started at 8am until 12 pm. at 12, our show started for the parents, and the people who wanted to see it. didja know, the fremd football field is like rubber?! i got like lotsa small black rubbery stuff in my shoe. anyways, afterwards, we had our picnic. so, since at 12, its really really hot out. our soda and water were in this big trashcan sized...bucket? so, if you stick your hand in to get something, it FEELS SO AWESOMELY COOL!!! lol

so, if you're thinking why I'm writing about songs you wouldn't even know about, go to the home football games :P mwahaha