Monday, October 4, 2004

2. Life
This is my actual post:

Okay my last REAL post was like what on thursday? Okay so then my life since thursday...

Well Friday we had off as far as band goes. I pretty much did nothing. I played Ninja Gaiden a lot. It was cool because i was playing the hurrican pack, and i had a new weapon i've never used before. I upgraded it and it was soooo awesome, i was kicking major ass, if felt good.

Okay Saturday, take a deep breath, maybe get a snack or something....I'll wait.......okay good. Well saturday was our first band competition (marching band). It was at giles county, which is about a 2:30 hour drive. Yes 2 and a half hours! on a bus! a school bus! we had a morning rehersal before the bus ride, after that we had donuts! the ride over wasn't too horrible, i ended up sitting by this freshman trombone kid, but he was pretty cool. he taught me a song, it was funny. After about an hour of driving we stopped off to get lunch at a fast food restaurant, i ate at kfc! yay kfc! actually it wasn't that good, but that's what i expected so i wasn't dissapointed. then we continued the bus ride. but before that i discovered that i was too late to register for the PSATs, which made me very sad, it still bothers me actually. Anyways after a while we arrived at the competition. we dressed and got ready to go to warmups. we went to the warmups and warmed up. then we performed our show. Okay the competition is cut into two parts: the festival performance and the competition performance. the festival one is just for a ranking 1-5, 1 being the best. the competition is to compete against the other bands that were there, that's where you get all the pretty trohies from. Anyways, our festival performance was really bad to our standards. But we still got straight ones, so we were happy. then began the long wait. you see between the festival and competition performance was about a 5 hour wating period for us. luckily our band got parked next to a creek and some nice picnic tables. so we kinda set up a camp area sort of speak. we had a lot of fun and it was all quite peaceful laying around the creek, some people laid under trees and took naps, other people jumped around like dumbasses, other people (including myself) just hanged out and talked.
Side Story: okay, i'm not the most popular kid at my band. as a matter of fact i only had one good friend in the band for the first two years, i would always hang out with him, we had fun. But he quit band this year so i was worried about the 5 hour wait, worried that i'd end up just sitting around with nobody to talk to. Luckily that didn't happen.
Back to the story: So after the 5 hour wait we started getting ready again for our competition performance. we warmed up and everything. but during the whole time i was very hyper, and i was jumping around talking to different little groups of people, it was fun. okay after that we performed our competition performance, it was great. we got off the field knowing we did great. after that we stood at the side of the field and watched the last couple of bands perform, which sucked because we couldn't sit down, and my feet were killing me. right after that we had to line up for retreat (were we get our awards, but we must stand at attention the whole time). anyways during the retreat my feet were dying, and so was i. it took forever to announce all of the awards, and our division was last. okay now for the exciting part. WE WON!!! YAY FOR US!!! we won everything, we were the best band there, THE BEST! we were so happy! okay now for the bus ride back home. it sucked, cuz we were all freezing, it was unbearably cold. the windows were all up and yet there was still a breeze somehow....it didn't make any sense. and it was 2 and a half hours, we tried to sleep but we couldn't, it was too cold. and there were people behind me yelling, but i didn't notice, i was listening to music and freezing my ass off. Well that was the most of my saturday.

Now for sunday...sunday was my little sister's birthday. we went to the mall. she got clothes, i got a new video game. then when we got back around 7 i had to study for my english test, then i got tired and went to sleep.

Today! today was the first day of homecoming. we had a volleyball game. it was the volley ball team vs. the teachers. the teachers won, kinda sad huh? then i had my english test, it was surprisinly easy, yay! then i came home and played my new video game, then i got online. i just found out i have a report due this friday, gosh i'm oblivious, i guess i'll have to get on that...

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