today was my first day of band for the summer. where to begin, i have no idea. i will do my best not to go crazy; but i can't make any promises...
so today we started off like every other summer. we convened in the band room and our director mr. franco kinda gave us an idea of what to expect this year. then we went outside to go over basics of marching and standing at attention, etc. luckily, i didn't really have to go through all of that because i had voices practice. during which, we actually got stuff done. we practiced this song called fruitcake which everyone loves (except for those few people in the audience who are young and sane). it is sort of fun to sing, but i hate to listen to it. in any case, the few of us who are both in band and voices (besides the one who ditched voices [cough cough jenni davidson]) headed back to the basics session and formed a line w/ the rest of the band. we did some marching and all that stuff and then we had a break. we then broke up into sections and learned parade rest (which i had very conveniently forgotten). i thankfully had to leave a half an hour before lunch for my orthodontist appointment. i came back and enjoyed an awful lunch at jack in the box w/ amanda, julie, and katie. yeah, 99 cent tacos!
then we returned and did some more marching, but it was tricky because we had to carry our instruments. seriously, i was about to die w/ that stupid heavy snare drum on my back. then we competed against other sections for nothing and the stupid flutes won, those kiss-ups! anyway, franco said the drummers did pretty well, but our "drum instructor" eric flores laughed and i said, "well, we did pretty good considering you didn't teach us anything." i am not sure if he heard me, but i really wish he did. then we split up into sections and practiced music for the rest of the two hours.
speaking of eric flores...HE PISSES ME OFF!!!! excuse my french. he keeps changing his mind and stuff and he would fool around and get mad at us when we fooled around! he makes me so angry. he's just like a woman, but he's worse because he's a guy (i think) which makes him so much more complicated. i like him alright when we're outside of band because he is kinda stupid and easy to pick on; but inside band i really really really...do not like him!
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i know what you mean about eric.hopfully he will grow a brain back and get a life.i am never going to eat at jack in the box again...ugh gross.those drums are so heavy....that is the only downside to being on drumline.i love having almost everyone on drumline as friends because drumline people are the only people in band that can get everything done in the time we are given and they are the only people in band that are fun to hang out with.the only ones that re exceptions to this is anyone of drumline peoples family members in band
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