Exhaustion

I’m going to be exhausted this weekend, and on Monday. We had rehearsal last night, bed at ten. Football game tonight, bed at eleven. Competition tomorrow, bed at 11:45, but 10:45 because of daylight savings time. I have to get up on Sunday at seven o’clock. Beautiful. No time to recover, or to catch up on sleep. I live in the band hallway.

My school’s football team is undefeated so far. One more game, and then we keep going. Joy. At least the show will be done. I can’t believe it! It feels like we’ve been working on the show forever! I’ve really improved a lot. I’ve learned the choreography of the show, the visuals, how to march in time, dress, what minus one and step outs are, how to mark time, and a lot more. I’ll be really sad. I won’t see people as much, this year was supposedly a “good show.”

Band camp, where I couldn't read a drill sheet seems like a long time ago. I have since then learned a lot, so if I do marching band again, which I think I will, hopefully it will be easier.

There’s only four bands in our division at the competition. So, it isn’t that big. The school that beat us before at two competitions isn’t there, so I’m happy. At our first competition, we beat all of the other bands. Out of eleven, they got eleventh, tenth, and seventh. We got fourth. This should be a relatively easy competition. Unless they improved A LOT, and we have a really bad run, we should get firsts. We beat the seventh place band by 3.05 points, the tenth place band by 13.1 points, and the eleventh place band by 16.2. Looking back at the scores, the first place band beat the last place band by about twenty points. WOW.

Our championships, there are twenty two bands we’re competing against. That will be a fun award ceremony. Waiting for a long time to find out what place you got. We probably won’t get first, but I think we’ll get in the top seven. After championships, our show gets hung up. I still can’t believe it. Recognition night is on the twenty third. That’s so sad.