It's been a hectic week, and there's still more to come. We have our first football away game this Friday night at Collins Hill! If you're interested, come watch us beat their butts. :-P But no school on Monday (hooray!).
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The Dessert Preview was not at all what we expected. Especially considering many of us were dreading it...
I've been pretty sick lately. I don't know why. I suspect Charles gave it to me in language arts by sneezing all over my binders (haha, just playing Charles!), but school today was miserable.I was cold the whole day and the high was 85, and my head hurt with a sore throat. Okay, so I am exaggerating. It wasn't that bad...
It was pretty depressing that we had band rehearsal today considering how sick I felt... especially when all these kids sit out when they aren't really sick. I guess I felt okay because I didn't really want to fall off the podium at any point or anything. Still, I was pretty depressed that we had rehearsals (yeah, whine. whine. whine.. :-P).
I came home and talked on the phone for an hour.. (heh. >.< you know who you are.) which made me feel a lot better mentally, but I was feeling physically more horrible (oh grammar.) and didn't want to go back for our Dessert Preview at all. (The Dessert Preview is an event we have every year, omg I just realized it was the seniors last ever! :O oy.. =(, where we officially play through our show for our parents. And.. eat a load of dessert. Pretty neat, I guess.) So I get there, down 3 brownies and some Cherry Coke, and try to fake a smile for the show. How sad.
... But ...
Tonight has been... amazing. There's no other word for it. Phenomenal would be too prentitious while great would be an understatement. It's not that the band all of the sudden played better or louder than ever. It was just this feeling on the field throughout the whole thing, like everyone wanted to work together to make this show go right. For the first time this year, I felt like I was actually communicating with the band... Musically. It's always been systematically like talking after rehearsals and giving commands, but this time.. there were no words. Thank you guys for playing with your hearts and doing the dynamics (yes!). I know we still have a looonnngg way to go on the music and the drill, but for what we've done so far, and all that we've gone through, you have been wonderful. I've been feeling like crap all day, but a small 8 minute interval with the band has made me feel a lot, both physically and emotionally, better. Why stress out and feel depressed when there's so much music to hold on to?
My favorite part though...
Giving out high-fives at the door with Whitney after it was all over.
It's amazing how a group of crazy, sweet, and talented kids can brighten my ordinary day.
;)
<3Emily
2 comments:
=D, that's awesome Emily. Good luck at the game, I hope you guys play really well.
Hope you get better soon, (and this time it wasn't my fault ^_^)
Yeah.. have a nice game :P
did parkview get any better?
and what charles said.. Feel better :D
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