day numero cuatro...
another great day of progress made at band camp. and a lot of real funny stuff happened today too. i'll go into all of that while i explain what happened today...

the first thing we did was arrive, put your lunch into the big walk-in fridge in the kitchen by the cafeteria, and head straight out to our warm up spot. and while waiting for everyone else to arrive we played on the fitness trail monkey bar thing that was there and we were swinging our hands all around and eventually our hands hurt so we stopped. and then mr. forney came out and we begun. we started with marching basics and stuff. we were taking this water break when all of a sudden i see troy tearing out into the alley for some strange reason and he comes back with this hub cap. see it had fallen off the car that had just drove by and everyone was yelling at it but they didn't hear us and they drove off without their hub cap. troy decided to keep thje hub cap for himself and he wanted to put it up on his wall but later the car drove by again. everyone was yelling and waving their arms around but the guy in the car just stared at us and kept driving. i guess that hub cap is going on troy's wall after all.

that all went on for less than an hour and then we warmed up our instruments and headed over to the field and we marched from charts 27 to 34 which we had learned yesterday and that took some getting used to because most of us forgot the moves. but we worked on cleaning it all up and eventually it was as smooth as butter. and then it was time to set more charts and we marched to that and that was pretty difficult because i kept forgetting where everything was but eventually we had charts 34-40 memorized alright and we played to that and it sounded pretty cool. and mr. forney had this bird crap on his shoulder and everyone was laughing and he had it on his shoulder for like 30 minutes. and he finally washed it off during lunch.

then we had lunch and all and that was pretty normal. there were 10 people sitting at our table today which made for great fun whenever we do this trick where we all stare at some table and see how long it takes for them to notice. and what's weird is that people seem to know when they're being stared at even when they're not facing you. it's a weird psycological thing i guess.

after lunch we went out and practiced for a while outside standing up for like an hour and then we worked on the show for the rest of the day. and then at the end we did one final run through of everything up to chart 47. only 10 more to go! and next comes the mock battle sequence and stuff we'll do next week. tomorrow is the last long day and then it's just 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm next week.

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