Marching Band 09

YAAAAAAAAAAY!!! Ok, Im in marching band now and i love it!!! it has its ups and down but so does everything else. i am in the pit which is the xylo phones, marumbas, rack, the bass drum and gong, the vibes, synthisizer, and what i play the bells!!! Our theme is the wizard of oz!! we have a dorthy(color guard), a scarecrow(melephone), a tin man(trumpet) and a cowardly lion(tuba or suzaphone).Following our theme we also have coldplay songs like viva la vida,yellow, and fix you. This saturday(october31 2009) we will be going to reionals, then the next saturday is state!!!!! im soooo excited! I think we have a good chance of winning state or at least getting 2nd but i probly will cry if we dont go to state and that will REALLY surprise everyone. Following the bells i play the base drum, gong and the viberslap(if you dont know what that is LOOK IT UP!!) The best part of band is the part of awards when were all in 2 lines or in the bleachers the crowd is dead silent you could hear a pen drop a mile away...................."1st place............grand Champion............winner of state.......IS..........MECER COUNTY!" Detail aten hut! HUT!" That hut, knowing you won knowing you did your job and left it all on the feild is the best feeling you could ever have. Or the bus ride to and from the competition! And our assitant band directer said if we win state she will get a tattoo of somesort!!!!!!
At state we were stunned when we stepped (or in my case rode) on the field our minds turned to smush. the lights were so bright and there were like 50 million people there!!!!! we had our best performance of the year!!!! we were so excited we felt that we had it in the bag. we felt wonderful we walked on the field with smile and gitter bugs in our stomachs. we lined up and got butterflys when they called 1A got tired at 2A, at 3A we got uneasy and when they called 4A i FREAKED OUT!!!! i got so scared and straightened up and actually felt tall for the first time! but when they said 4th place goes to.........................MERCER COUNTY!!!!!!!!!!!! i looked at each one of my pit members one at a time and watched them cry and i of course had to come out and cry two. Not just a tear rollen down my cheak, a cry that hurts your lungs and your heart as if someone stabbed u with a knife. 3rd place South Oldham 2nd Grant County and 1st of course our biggest rival Madisonville :( we had a 92 and a 87 the highest of all classes and the lowest. When my band directer put that yellow medal around my neck i was tore apart. But for my first year of marching band 4th place in state is pretty good. For more information on our scores and our achievments go to kybands.com