Marching Band

Today was the first day of band camp (or in other words, marching band practice). Boy...I don’t think I’d been in it if it wasn’t a requirement to be in concert band (unless you’re in guard, or have some complication against it).

Okay, so today I had to wake up at 6:30, because a person like me is obsessed about being on time (Alled the Nox can tell you all about it...), so I can take a shower, eat breakfast, and get ready for practice at 8:30. Oh, but my band director believes being early is being on time, so I arrived there at about 8:15, or something. First, we did our warm-ups, stretches, and “hindu”, etc. and did our block drill. I don’t really like the block drill, and still mess up at it, but I’m getting better. Next, we begin learning the actual performance. We kept on doing movements from one point to another point, then reverse (backwards; I suppose we’ll know the whole show front and back, seriously...well, okay, not seriously, because we only do backwards in clusters...), then forward, etc. However we did get to practice up unto a certain point from the beginning. We have a break, and then back to learning the performance. Finally, at 11:40, we get to go home and have lunch. I think my sun block gave out half-way in the AM practice, because my face was red, even after I had rested for a bit. Anyway, the PM practice started at 5:30, and we did some practicing of the music without marching, and then we had a block drill. It was different then the regular one, but I liked it a bit better. After that, we went back to learning the performance, then at 8:40, we finished! Oh, one cool thing is that in set #12, I’m next to the Tok’ra! However, since that Tok’ra is at camp, she’ll have to make up all what we learn in practice. LOL!