Freshman band camp... Stand in the sun for 3 hours in the morning, walking about 10 feet to either side, going back to the spot you were just in, doing it over again, and starving while you're doing it. Oh well, only 2 weeks and 4 days left!!!!! Well, at least our band's the Pride of the Bluegrass. It should get better. hopefully. Lafayette High Class of 2008!!! (Lexington, Kentucky, they won the state championship 13 years in a row 'til last year... stupid cross-town rivals... and they were in the Macy's Parade 2 years ago)

How is walking back and forth band camp? I'm confused.
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Eloi - YOU'VE BEEN DUCK'D!

well, we're learning all the marching step stuff, and we just have gone about 20 yards so far to each side. We haven't gotten into our show stuff yet, just the basics. Today was the first day. We'll get funner stuff later on. Like, next week. or tomorrow.

"Funner" stuff being...walking BACKWARDS??! Man, I'd be excited if I got to stand in the sun doing such pointless things as being in the freshman band.

It's for the chicks cactus! They go wild for the freshman band! Woooo! Show us your Tuba!

Ha ha. All my friends are at band camp. I feel bad for you and them. The only advantage seems to be that all the unattached band girls are going out with band guys by the end of the summer...

On a funny note about walking backwards, under my school's old band director, if you missed a step you needed to do a complete circuit backwards by yourself then go on with the rest of them. The new band director don't do that no more ,though. :D

This one time, at band camp...

Methinks I shouldn't have seen American Pie... :P

...

You know, at least he's outside, unlike the rest of you.

Doing pointless things, yeah, but outdoors, nonetheless.

Sun tan!

Hoax and roguelazer: Band chicks aren't that great. I'm one of them.

/me waits for Pho to come in here and start a marching band war.

Seeing as how the female half of my friends are all band chicks, I would say that I have at least some authority to judge on the subject. :D

It's funky. Most of our orchestra play in band. And most of them play Clarinet.... Odd, no? Our freaking principal violaist (sounds weird, but violist means one who plays the viol) plays the clarinet...

I say frisbee is a much better use of outside time then band of any sort.

>Hoax and roguelazer: Band chicks aren't that great. I'm one of them.

Woooo! Show us your Tuba!

Toooobaaaa!

/me thinks Hoax is stuck on "Wooooo! Show us your tuba!"

Yeah, 3 days in... holding a trombone up in the air for 20 minutes hurts (It won't in a few days, but for now it does.).
/me goes and gets ice for his shoulder.

On another note... This guy who used to be the assistant band director at U Michigan is helping at our camp. HE IS A TOTALLY IDIOT/FREAK/WHATEVER ELSE YOU WANT TO CALL HIM/ANNOYING PERSON. He starts crazily laughing every 30 minutes and we've played every line on this sheet about 15 times... and it's really easy. Also he won't let us play our show music yet... I think all the freshmen want to punch his guts out, but that wouldn't be nice...

Oh ****, screw niceness.

/me goes to punch the guy's guts out.

*cough*

How exactly does one go about "punching someone's guts out"?

> How exactly does one go about "punching someone's guts out"?

I'd say a lot of punching. Is he fat?

And why the hell does danielky computer access during band camp? Computer with the INTERNET, nonetheless. Blasphemy, I say!

> Seeing as how the female half of my friends are all band chicks,
> I would say that I have at least some authority to judge on the
> subject. :D

And I just think you have weird taste in females. :P

Band camp is only during the day. We don't go to some other town for band camp. Just to the high school. Therefore, I get to go home and use my computer. With Internet. And it's Windows thank you very much! (:P) I think I'm going to run through a pair of shoes marching over the asphalt every day.

Punching people's guts out: This takes lots of concentration. First, you need a good, sturdy arm. Then you rear back and punch. Then you "accidentally" attach a knife to your hand, punch again, and pull the guts out. It's that simple.

:P

Hehe. At www.goodquotes.com, the fourth entry under "Famous Last Words" is: One time at band camp...

well, only 2 days left now! And I only have to march on Friday morning. Thursday's freshmen orientation in the morning, so I don't have to march. And we don't march in the afternoon. fortunately. But hey, we have the whole first movement of our music done, we're in the refining stage. Oh, and only 3 more movements left... crap.

Let's see, I've only done about 150 push-ups during the whole 3 weeks of camp, not bad at all. Oh, and no American Pie imitations... I don't think...
Man I hate that line. "One time at band camp..." It's so stupid... well, I'm out.

You have Freshman orientation in... August? Um... Right...

IT'S OVER!!!! YAY!!!!! Now all we have is practice every day after school (starting in a week), and some practices on Saturdays. Then we have 3 overnight competitions, 2 parades, and a couple performances to go on top of football games. Very relaxing, huh.

Freshman orientation was in August rogue, we start on the 16th (I'm pretty sure, at any rate it's the Monday one week from the coming Monday. Yeah, anyways, I'm out.