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Member’s Journal – Phoenix, AZ

4 August 2007Saturday, 10:39 pmPhoenix Regional I’ve been slacking in my updates. Where I left off was when we had the Pittsburg, KS show. The next day we had the Dubuque, IA show. The only thing I remember is that the show didn’t seem as energetic as the day before. We had no floor time […]

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Member’s Journal – Kansas

25 July 2007Wednesday, 10:21pmPittsburgh, KS In the past week we have endured cricket infestations, scalding hot showers, and fourteenth place. But really, that's looking at everything from a very negative point of view. Last Wednesday night (July 18), we had the Lafayette, LA show. It would've been a great show if my cold and asthma […]

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Member’s Journal – Louisiana

14 July 2007Atlanta, GASaturday, 10:03amRegional Day! Sunday last, we had a laundry day in Allentown- we all got to go to the same huge laundromat, and were done quickly. Our Warrenton, VA housing site was horrible. On Monday night, we pulled into a school where the girls had to sleep in the cafeteria. There were […]

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Member’s Journal – Allentown, PA

4 July 2007Wednesday, 5:15pm Chicago, ILI can't believe it has been almost another week. Last Friday I found another location to add to my 'favorite shows' list: Normal, IL. The kids there treated us like it was a regional, or finals week. I'd never preformed there before. On Saturday, we drove all the way to […]

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Member’s Journal – Minneasota

24 June 2007Sunday, NoonRusselville, ALLaundry DayI haven't had time or motivation to write recently, as we've had three show days in a row. On Thursday, we were in Benson, NC, for CrownBEAT. Although I did not have a good show, especially as the brass quintet had timing issues in the ballad; somehow we got off […]

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Member’s Journal – Let the tour begin!

13 June 2007Wednesday, 10pmAbingdon, VAWe’re finally on tour! Monday was the last full day of all days- it made up for my horrible Sunday performance. I marched and played to the very end of the show with ease. I spent all evening up until lights out packing for our departure Tuesday night. I was expecting […]

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Member’s Journal – Second Week of Everydays

28 May 2007Monday, 11:20 pmThe dreaded days after off-time… in the morning I woke up in a fairly good mood. I've been having toast with peanut butter almost every day – it'd be awesome to keep those toasters on tour; somehow I doubt we will. In visual we started putting third movement drill on the […]

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Member’s Journal – First Week of Everydays

20 May 2007Sunday, 2:30pmI have just setup camp in the dorm. This year Spirit is staying in Curtiss Hall, right across from Paul Snow Stadium. The girls are on the third floor, meaning I had to carry up a mellophone, horn, big rolling duffel, and my smaller duffel. There is no elevator here. None of […]

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Member’s Journal – Final Drill Camp!

Finally, the last camp of the 2007 season is over. The weekend was rather eventful and productive. This time I drove up to camp with my parents because I had to move out of my dorm on Friday for the end of the semester. My parents volunteered at a Spirit fundraiser at the Talladega Speedway […]

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Member’s Journal – March/April Drill Camp

This past weekend I had a much better camp than earlier in March. My carpool and I arrived in Jacksonville just after 11 at night because we couldn’t leave Tallahassee before 5:30. Apparently we missed a horn warm up that didn’t get past a certain articulation exercise because either the horn line wasn’t focused enough […]

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