Band Director @ Band

Me: Hasn’t yet touched gear over break

Also me: “Why do I have the sensation that I am forgetting something?”

What if you live on the Great Plains? Then what?

The worst part of winter guard is not being able to practice outside

What I’m bad at: most things

What I’m good at: somehow hitting myself in the face with absolutely everything

You know the party is dying when people split into

Crazy party crew

The emotional support squad

And gentle rain outside the bus leaves the walls chilly and the lights bending. But you’ve never been more comfortable in your life

those nighttime band bus rides where people are napping or singing or laughing or listening to music and there’s the faint glow of the streetlights passing by and everything feels right in the world

Post-Season Thoughts

Never in my life would I think I’d be walking off of a football field in a stadium while crying.

Never would I think I’d be crying as two of the captains announce that they won’t be doing winter guard.

Never Have I thought I would have become so attached to what I do that it became a part of my personality

Never should I doubt in my ability to do something new

Never will I give up doing what I love

I shall forever cherish this season as not only my first season but also as a season where my I changed massively as a person from a shy quiet child who’d always be trying to hide from anyone to someone who’d smile defiantly at judges while performing.

I am so grateful for the chance to be in this family and this sport.

“Put your butts down, we don’t need no Hoes in our show!”

-The choreographer

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