...days until band camp. the countdown is getting into the lower numbers now. whoa what a day. i gotta tell ya. sheesh are they trying to kill us? almost my entire day consisted of band and marching and stuff. i'm pooped. i think i'll use a lot of bold and italic lettering tonight for a change. or no wait! bold and italic! wow the miracles of html. building a website on angelfire has really helped me learn about html and how to write it and stuff. i think it's just the coolest because you can make your webpage into virtually anything you want; you don't have to use any pre-fab template or something.
last night was such a blast down on the square. boy what a time everyone has! there was food and all and i was walking with my friend saif when all of a sudden someone comes up behind me and grabs me and half scares me to death and i turn around and there's kassie behind me. i should've known. kassie and her boyfriend jeremy and i walked around for like a long time and then we found swopey and he had his bike with him so we talked about his bike and then charlie (another band person) grabbed swopey's bike and she ran off with it and then swopey and i were marooned down on the square for about 20 minutes.
and then we managed to get his bike back and we looked for kassie and all then and then we stood around for a long while and talked. and people were getting up on the stage that was set up on one corner of the town square and leading the singing of all these old songs. and i realized that you could've sang them all to the same tune practically. i mean "the old gray mare" would go perfectly with "this land is your land" or something like that lol. and everyone is always way out of tune and everything so that's amusing.
and that was over around 1:00 am so i went to bed and i didn't get enough sleep because i had to get up early at 7:30 am to get ready for that orientation for new members for field band. that was up at the school at 9:00 am and it lasted till noon. and during that time, we watched some videos and then we went out to the field and learned "marching basics" which was one tiring excersize after another to learn stuff like left turns, right turns, marching forward, marching backward, warm-ups and stuff, flanks, and hip shifts and stuff that i can't even remember the name of but how to do it all is drilled into my mind like the drill sheets that we learned to read. that was probably the most complicated part. but it's alright once you learn.
so that was hot and tiring because as the sun got higher and higher the temperature rose and stuff. so that was the morning. and then later in the afternoon, i had to visit charlie (my employer) about a new work schedule for september since it's a very busy month. but we got that worked out okay.
and then, this evening was rehearsal for the band. it lasted from 6:00 to 7:30 and we marched for the greater part of it. and that about killed me. gee marching for an hour out in that evening heat really does a number on you. everyone was so tired after that. man and then band camp is just like that next week. just 9 am to 4pm everyday for 5 days straight. how can anyone do it? lol. i'll soon find out. i think this experience will be worthwhile.
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