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[Who is Puffer Fish]

My birthday's the 26th of August, so it's usually during the early part of the third week.

Last year it was on a Sunday and nobody knew when it was anyway.

But this year if people forget, I'm gonna be annoyed...seeing how I have facebook now and they have no lives.  

[T i f a]

I didn't mind the Saturday practices so much, since they were 9-3. I guess it wouldn't have been too bad, since I only celebrate with my parents (And grandparents, if we're talking about my 16th and 18th birthdays) anyway.

Yay for people having no lives. ^^;;;

 

[Tubariffic]

Our bandcamp is at some college in the mountains, from a sunday to the next saturday.  

[T i f a]

I'm not even sure why we call it band camp, since we don't actually go anywhere other than the school. ^^;;;

 

[Who is Puffer Fish]

One week, Tuba? o_0;; Jeez.

I agree, Tifa, but what else is there to call it?

It's like a day camp but at teh school.  

[T i f a]

Marching Band Hell? I don't know. XD

 

[[Aelfwyn]]

Our actual band camp is also only a week, but we go to a camp for it. It's usually the first week in August. The last one or two weeks in July and the rest of August we have practice from 8-12 at the high school. It's not too bad compared to you guys, but geez, a week strait of band isn't too great. But it's kinda weird: band camp is really a love-hate relationship. You hate every second of it, but love it too? But really, doesn't that sum up of all of marching band?

Anyway, Prince Caspian comes out today! Quite ironically, do to being over stressed, I took the day off of school today. My friends are all going to think I took the day off for the movie, lol. I just hope we don't do anything big in band today. xp

Last night we had our banquet for concert band. Hardly anything big, just an hour before the concert getting the semester award pins and some cake. Of course, my director kept forgetting I've been playing horn for the last 4 1/2 months. confused I've definitely made an impression on it. But gosh, I'm going to miss horn. The jerk is making me go back to trumpet next year. I know it's bad to call your director a jerk, but when he rips away one of your greatest love, he deserves it.

 

[Who is Puffer Fish]

Wow, Aelf...
Why is he making you go back? You're losing players next year or something? -_-

Same with us...but we're just getting the lazy immature idiots from the middle school 'cause they're moving up next year. (May we only survive H's wrath...)

Band hell?
I love band camp.
Everyone envies my section 'cause we get to stay up in the bandroom in air conditioning until the band knows enough sets to play, then we go down.
And when we're up there, we bring down the popsicles for the band and get almost mauled for them. XDD  

[T i f a]

Yeah, I had a serious love-hate relationship with marching band. I felt better being inside when I did pit last year, but I can't say I enjoyed pit as much as actually marching mellophone or trumpet (Probably because I got kicked off marimba and demoted to auxiliary). And color guard is just something I'd never ever do again, even though I got really good at singles. All of the drama was so stupid, the instructors were mean, and the people in there weren't particularly great to be around. I got along with a few of the upperclassmen in there, but that was pretty much it. It became very obvious that my instructors didn't support me and would rather cut my parts out than actually help me improve on them. : / Luckily, the one left and the other got fired the next year.

I don't know, band camp was never really that...fun...overall for me. Well, there was the exception my junior year when there was a surprise bowling alley trip right after a lunch break. That was freaken sweet. And there were random moments that made the practice go by faster, but that was mostly when I was in the trumpet section.

My problem is that I love band, but the program rarely loved me back. It was hard to stick with it at times.

Oh wow, Aelfwyn, I wouldn't be happy either. My main instruments are trumpet and horn, so I can imagine what that would feel like.

 

[[Aelfwyn]]

I don't get it either. Everyone I've spoken to is surprised I have to switch back. The problem is we're getting two horn players and no trumpets from the middle school. I really have to switch back before my junior year, due to three trumpets graduating. But they're still going to be around next year. It would help if I owned a horn so I could play on my own, but I'm playing on the school horn (I named him Benvolio Zacchara heart ). I suppose I could talk to my director about it...but idk...he really hasn't been listening to me this year. I hate to admit it, but I've been scared to talk to him, period. He's allows just plain shooting me down. sweatdrop

I just got back from Prince Caspian. It was amazing! Aslan was so pretty. heart

 

[Tubariffic]

Our banquet is the 30th and it is the biggest day of the year.

Firstly, everything in my band is done by the senior class, the captain is the figure head, I am Business manager, I collect all the money and sell the tickets, we have a student director who is in charge of collecting music and odd jobs like pepband and small ensemble needs. We even have the clerks who do all of the attendance and all the grades. All my BD does is direct xD

So at the end of the year the juniors plan the banquet as the first thing their class does. It serves as a good bye to the seniors, the passing out of all the awards, but most importantly, the banquet is where the senior positions are announced.

This year the theme is roaring twenties and it is going to be so fun.

I hope they do a good job, they do all the decorating, make a senior sideshow, and it is all funded by them.

I look forward to it greatly.  

[T i f a]

It sounds like my band is going to have an incoming mellophone/horn player. I'm excited for them. When I marched mellophone, there were only three of us! When I switched over to pit, the section jumped to 5 or 6 because of the flute players learning horn.

 

[Tubariffic]

this year symphonic band had 6 horns, which correlates to 6 mellophones xD  

[Who is Puffer Fish]

Jeez, I'm gone for one night and this happens? XD

I never have played anything but percussion, so maybe that's why I love my pit so much...I couldn't imagine being forced to switch instruments, nor would my director make me since we need a lot of percussion. He'd rather if the two oboes who play percussion for MB switched over...well, one of them, anyway...the other kinda sucks. XD

The banquet sounds fun, Tuba, I hope you have a good time.
Still dunno when our end-of-the-year one is.

Our mellophone section last year was 4 or 5, I don't remember exactly, I never really payed attention. XD

One of the mellos plays trumpet, too.
I'm gonna miss him. He's so fun to talk to. Too bad he's a senior and leaving us with the horribles coming up. >_>  

[T i f a]

My band director actually let me choose what I wanted to play for some of the concerts. I always had to play French horn in Wind Ensemble, since that's the instrument I was in there for. And I was perfectly okay with that; the trumpet parts would've probably been too hard for me anyway. ^^;;;

I honestly joined pit because I was really interested in marimba. I came really close to crying when the pit instructor handed me a completely different part that I was totally clueless about. I had no percussion experience whatsoever going into pit, so I had no idea what any of the stuff was or what a lot of the marks on the page meant. At least with marimba, you just had to know how to read music. @.@ I learned to really like the cymbal and gong/bass drum combined parts over time, but that was about it.