Band Camp @ MindSay

Well, now the marching band starts.  I didn't know what else to blog about so I just picked something that was happening right now.  All I can say is that I'm excited and very nervous.  Michelle says that it's tiring and terrible.  Then she says it's good, which makes no sense to me.  So really, I have no idea what to expect.  I just hope that I like it as much as I liked our first practice last week.  I also can't wait till band camp because people keep saying that it's going to be fun.  Then other people tell me it sucks.  That's all I've got to say. 

 

 

- Dan out!

"I don't want your body, I just want your butt!!" -- Brandi (one of the piccolo section leaders)

 

"See, I told you I'm not on crack!!" -- some random guy

 

"Get in a circle!!  We can't make a diagonal, but damnit, we can make a circle!!" -- sousaphone section leader

 

*grabs breasts*  "Yep, they're still there." -- Me (I'll explain later.)

 

"Tomorrow morning, if I'm feeling frisky, we're going to play 'Open Up Wide'." -- Mr. Richardson (LMAO!!)

 

It's great to be back, ladies and gentlemen!!!!!  ^_^

 

Until next time,

 

TheFallenAngel

Hello. Hi. Hey!

 

Freshmen band camp started yesterday. Myself and some others went w/ Mrs. Coakley to help w/ the 7th and 8th graders. I will say that it is very awseome to yell at the younger kids who have no idea in hell as to what they're doing. But it was fun.

 

I mowed yesterday in the 105 degree heat. It was so hot. But the thing is when I'm like in the AC in the house all day I get a really bad headache. Then when I was outside it went away. I think I was just put on this earth to be outside and sweat my ass off. Yay..not. More like gross.

 

Vball yesterday morning was terrible. We played varsity and we got spanked....reall bad. Now all of the JV players are doubting weither or not we'll make the team. SO tomorrow I know for a fact that if you value staying on the team you'll have to work yourself till you drop.

 

You know the scream that guy from Accepted does when that guy falls outta the ceiling....Yeah well Joel can do that. It's kinda scary cause Joel is like manly....not like a guy who sounds like he sucks helium when he screams. The ppl who are buying his house want them out by the 28th of August. The don't even have a place to stay so I doubt that'll happen. But I'm gald that they're finally selling the house.

 

Mom's in Findly and Elias is sleeping....I'm gonna go catch some zzzzz's myself!!

 

TTFN

 

I love you baby!! You mean so much to me. And please don't feel like you can't talk to me!

I just returned from what some might call band camp.  In reality, I do not play an insterment that involves killing brain cells to make obnoxious noises.  Instead I play the Viola, and I'm proud of it.  This "band camp" actually had an orchestra so I went.  I've been going there for the past three years and this year I was finally stuck in a cabin full of boy crazy teenage girls I didn't know.  Oh, how I loath those crazy for the opposite sex!!!!!!!  Anyway, nobody there understood my dark, deranged since of humor or my also dark and deranged manor.  I am SO happy to be back to my Mindsay friends who understand me!!!  I missed you guys!!!!!!!!!!!

Band camp...it's those two little words that strike fear into the hearts of band geeks everywhere...Or maybe it's only if your in the Elba High School Band. 

 

That's right, tomorrow begins the two-week-torture that determines if you have what it takes to be called a band member.  Everybody goes...nobody escapes. 

 

From 8-12 and 2-4, the wide-eyed rookies,  punk-rock percussion, and still-haven't-recovered-from-summer-camp auxillaries will gather at the place where all bandos go, the heart of the very existence of the band program...the band room.  There we will go our seperate ways to be shaped and molded into the finest specimen of band members.  The kind of people who are proud to stand up and say "I am in the band!" 

 

Starting Thursday, the veterans of the band program (the old guys) will convene with us and shape what will become...

 

the half-time show. 

 

This year, our music consists of selections widely known as "Motown." 

The opener is a lovely arrangement of "I Want You Back", recorded by the Jackson 5. 

The booty-shaking Danceline Feature will be to, what else?  Respect, derived from Aretha Franklin's top hit. 

We don't have a drum solo yet....it's Elba.

Finally, we're closing our show with a wonderful arrangement of the much loved song "Ain't No Mountain High Enough."

 

It is at this time when we will extend our schedule, not only mornings and afternoons, but also evening practices from 6-8.  This is it...this is where it all begins.  You either show up ready to work...or go home (because that's generally how things work anyway).

 

The field is prepped (probably not...it's Elba),

The instruments are tuned (probably not...it's Elba),

The show is written (probably not...it's Elba),

 

Are you ready.....for Band Camp?

 

 

*Yeah, sorry guys...I just felt an overwhelming urge to be extremely sarcastic.  I gave in, and this was the product.  Hope y'all enjoyed it.  But band camp does begin tomorrow.*

 

 

I'm gonna go get some sleep.  I'll get to see most of y'all tomorrow!  Hope y'all are ready...

 

--Whitley

 

p.s.  Just a warning:  Don't talk to me before coffee...I'll probably make fun of you and hurt your feelings....you have been warned.