"Being out in that heat for two weeks definitely drains your energy."
~ Cobi Jones
This is definitely a good band camp quote. It made me smile when I saw it.
Today was another one of the two hour practices. Nine to eleven. We again went over warm ups and the basics of marching. We also started to rehearse and play the stand music. I seriously don't remember having any marching band anything until half way into July. My band director must have changed the schedule.
It was smoking hot out. I checked the temperature when I got home, and it was 100 degrees (obviously Fahrenheit.) I felt like a wilting flower. The heat was really getting to me, and we didn't get any drink breaks. I'm not looking forward to band camp. Band camp is like ten times these little rehearsals. I would have complained, but band camp is only going to be worse. :(
Today, since it's summer, we had some freshman that came for the first time today. Two of them were pulled aside by one of the drum majors and were worked with more individually. I really wish they would have done that for me last year.
In basics block, one of the drum majors commented and said that my marching / basics block skills looked good.
In some ways, I regret signing up for marching band again. The schedule's crazy between that, work, and the other things I have going on during the summer. I already committed, and plus it would be awkward explaining to people why I quit since I already signed up. Also, I have three core classes first semester, (my school has block scheduling) and that's going to be kind of difficult. Classes with a lot of work and managing a crazy marching band schedule. My dad thinks I should drop marching band after this year. He asked me, jokingly, why I wanted to subject myself to the torture of band camp. I think he thinks that I'll have more time to figure out what I want to do after high school, like take classes based on the career pathway which I'll take. So I'm not even thinking about if I'm doing marching band again next year.
yeah I remember very well woke up so early in the morning and den running whole perimeter round de stadium 12 rounds...was like hell!! and the sun in the afternoon marching drills was like 100 degrees celcius and I was burnt so bad I can't touched my skin for a week... so we did this daily for 2 weeks marching under hot sun from 10am till 5pm (of cos wit breaks) and of cos we had under our hat the best marching band in the state... lol... so glad though after all those pain and hurts we achieved something for our school ;D I never regret those days and now seeing myself as a professional flutist nothin else could ever put me down! ;)
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