spyrotwilightblue@yahoo.com
spyrotwilightblue@yahoo.com
Well, now this is Spyro. Life is interesting indeed. Especially when you are in marching band. You learn many intersting things about Marching Band. Such as:
*Never, and I mean NEVER leave the piccolo snare out side.... your band director will be mad for weeks.
*After standing next to drummers during drills, they actually start making some sense.
*Dropping the bottom of your flute while marching is bad.... especially when you don't notice it.
*Being hit from behind by an oblivious base drummer no longer hurts... (it did the first time)
*Having your band director throw a fit and walk off the feild, because he's annoyed with his band... is completly normal
*Marching backwards sucks....
*Tripping while marching backwards is completly normal for a freshman
*But they are still laughed at
* You are in step when you walk down the hall at school... and notice it
*then procede to point this out to all of your non-band geek friends.
* You begin to realize that Marching Band is a sport
*Then you quickly argue WHY marching is a sport
*You are suddenly investing a whole lot of money into chapstick (I don't know about you, but I ALWAYS have to get chapstick)
*you can (and will) mark time/conduct ANY music you hear
*You look around when someone yells out your name and wonder who it was
*You learn to get used to the dirty looks people throw you when you say "I'm in marching band... I don't do any other sports."
*You make perverted jokes about any inanimate object (Cough drummersandtrumpets cough)
*Drum sticks become good back scratchers
*You get used to icy cold water being poured down your back no matter what time of the year
*you bang out your part on any available surface... and you're a woodwind
*Your band director yells at you to stay focused, and then forgets what he was saying
*You thank the high heavens above that water exsists
*impersonate the drum major's voice and call people to attention
*Than laugh when everyone races from their water break to attention
* Listening to the drum major's voice makes you think what it would be like to be a pizza (Sadly, I have never done that ONE before...)
* You realize that the drummers often have the cool parts of the song
* Astroturf is your friend
* Irritating couples making out during the water break may lead to your death (raises hand, and gives a small grin)
* You learn that running fast is essential to life
*Especially when it is from the couple you have just disturbed
*You know that your band director is crazy when he starts jumping up and down on the podium like a crazed monkey
*Then realize he's yelling at one of the drummers
*Doing your homework on the bus is completly normal
*Doing your homework while explaining how to play a specific part of a song comes natauraly to you
*You no longer look at the drummers oddly when you see them attempting to sniff Pepsi.
*you laugh when they get an ice cube stuck in their nose
*You try to be the best section in band
*Then half of your section trys out for a play that happens two days of band rehersal (Flutes....)
*Freshmen look astonished when they do something right, after being yelled at all day
*You find that cracking jokes at an angry couple on the verge of braking up is not wise..
*Esspecially when one of them plays the tromebone
* You now know how to play at least one Beatles song... Or know the words to a Beatles song
* One way or another, you become the person everyone goes to for advice
