This past weekend was pretty awful for me. How’s that for an opening sentence? Allow me to explain… Two days before camp, I woke up with a runny nose and sore throat. I felt dizzy, exhausted, and generally did not want to move. I went to bed that night not sure if I was going […]
Camp this weekend went by very quickly. On Friday night, I arrived a half hour before sectionals ended because my friend and I couldn’t leave Tallahassee until 5:30 due to a class. She has a thermometer in her car we watched drop from the low 50’s in Florida to the high 20’s as we pulled […]
Another weekend; another audition. I had no access to a mellophone over the holidays, so I had no idea what to expect. I brought my French horn for a second time. I carpooled with the same people as last camp, minus one who is probably not marching this summer. We actually left earlier and stayed […]
Time has flown by this semester. It’s another drum corps season, and I was very anxious to return. Over the past couple months I’ve been insanely busy being a music major and participating in college marching band. I had to miss the first Spirit audition camp due to the big rivalry game between FSU and […]
I am now back at home to my dismay from my summer tour, but the last week of tour could not have gone any better. In Allentown we had a good show run. I got to hang out with my friends once gain from other corps. Unfortunately, I was late getting back to the buses […]
Since July 12 the summer has quickly been flying by. That night the Buffalo show turned into a standstill because of the amount of water in Zunn Tire Park . I’d like to say we won that show, because we received a crazy standing ovation after playing Georgia. The next day we had rehearsal in […]
It has been somewhat difficult to find time to write in the past two weeks. Beginning on June 19th, we have been constantly rehearsing to improve our show. It began with a rained-out show day in Sevierville, TN. We had to rehearse inside all day because it was pouring outside. We ended up doing a […]
It’s finally the end of move in! Tonight at 8 pm we leave JSU bound for Middleofnowhere, Alabama. Last Monday was a nice change in conditioning. An instructor staying for only one week ran it. We were allowed to take our shoes off on the astroturf and stretched more than ran. When it began to […]
Another week of move in has come to a close. By now everything is fairly routine, and it’s a matter of pushing to the very end to survive the Alabama heat. Monday began with a difficult breathing block around the stadium field. We ran a mile with sprinting a good chuck of it. I had […]
It has been a little over a week since I moved-in with Spirit. This morning is a much needed break after a lot of rehearsal time out in the sun. Last Friday I flew into Atlanta with difficulty because the airline bag checkers didn’t seem to understand why I had so many bags. It was […]
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