St. John's Parade
Big day. So today was the St John's parade and the Benson band was going to be in it. So i had to wake up early today as if it was a school day... at 7... sigh... got ready and got on the max to school. We got ready and stuff, got dressed, put on my hat and plume, got my gloves, and shined my trombone. We got a practice run and by then i was pretty confident that we're gonna do fine cause we had rehearsals where we sounds like crap, where we were all disorganized and where sometime no one would play. By then i knew it was going to be a great parade and a good day. So we got on the bus and drove down there. Once we got there, the first thing i noticed was this massive bunch of people this one school has for a band. They had like 100-150 people where we only have like 50 so they're like twice/triple our size. But they were only in middle school. Also i noticed that none of them were wearing school uniforms, they were just wearing a school tshirt and jeans... We had our blue and orange school band uniforms... people were looking at us... So we got into our spot and stood there for a while. For some reason we didn't start until like 12:30 and we got there like at 9.... so we waited for 2-3 hours in the hot sun. I walked around, looked at the other people's bands, floats, and got some food. So when we finally started, i didn't feel nervous. I felt kinda confident and felt calm. Maybe it's because i did this last year. So during the march, i played the most that i can and that i know which is about 2/3 of the first song and the whole pretty much the whole piece of the second music. During the march i sometime got off step but got back in. It was pretty hot, so i was dripping sweat from my noise and sweating on my forehead. It felt like just 10 min, but 30 min/ 2 mile of marching was over. Overall i felt that the band did a pretty good job. The crowd enjoyed the music we played, they cheered us, and yea. Pretty good march :]








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