Marching Band it is....Marching Monarch's Style!
A/N: I have read so many lists like this that I couldn't help but do one of my own. I hope you enjoy this! I know I loved writing it!
1. It is second family
It is sweaty teenagers
It is proverbial train wrecks
It is being gone for a semester, then fitting right back in as if you weren't ever gone.
It is "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" quotes
Taking secret pleasure in annoying the snot out of the flutes(a clarinet thing!!!)
It is dirty jokes
It is hot summer days and cold winter nights
It is bus rides with friends
It is never having a free weekend
It is writing list like this when I should be doing P.E. or studying.
It is crying at the seniors last competition
It is flat out ignoring the drum major
It is love/hate relationship with the major drum major
It is a nickname for everyone(Mine is Sparkie!!!)
It is Scicon sing alongs (if you don't know Scicon is a wilderness camp you go to is 6th grade)
It is potlucks
It is smelly shoes
It is hot uniforms
It is strutting your stuff when you are in said uniform
It is "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
It is sucky chairs
It is running out of hamburgers
It is lying on a blanket at another school with your uniform half off.
It is everything and nothing.
It is making fun of the cheerleaders and foot ball players
It is meeting, greeting, and actually being friends with freshman
It is stuffing people into the tuba lockers
It is pointing and laughing when someone falls, THEN helping them get up
It is that feeling you get when something goes perfect on the field during a competition
It is the language of the tubas. (It is called igity and it is bomb fo shogity :D )
It is being small, but MIGHTY!
It is never having enough tuba players
It is band camp.
It is skittle fights at band camp
It is drill offs
It is basics blocks
It is getting hit with the flags
It is falling over guard props
It is making fun of the guard, but loving them still
It is secretly wishing you could twirl a flag like the guard does
It is bloody noses
It is passing out at band camp
It is that warm, fuzzy feeling you get after a good practice
It is a constant stream of swear words
It is using freaking every other freaking sentence
It is the candle light ceremony
It is 'Your Mama....' fights
It is kazoos
It is BD: Reset. Lindsey: Your mom!
It is knowing when the band director says one more time, that it is a flat out lie
It is football games
It is getting asked to march your schools show at a different school. That has their own marching band!
It is writing list like these
It is tapping your cadents with a pencil and having your sister tap her schools cadents. Cadents fight!!!!!
It is band directors. 'Nuff said.
It is Lindsey's cookies( my section leader. These cookies are bomb seriously)
It is Dan's fudge (and this fudge is almost better than the above)
It is fashion shows
It is band traditions
It is drill offs
It is freshman winning drill offs
It is even the shyest kid in band being a nut
It is wanting to play every instrument
It is running out of hamburgers
It is feeling ADD all the time even if you aren't really.
It is saxtionals
It is normal sectionals where everything gets done(NOT!)
It is knowing what a Dr. Beat is
It is wanting to kill the Dr. Beat
It is knowing what it is like to be a real team.
It is geeks, nerds, and dorks
It is reading this and knowing they are all true
It is bus rides
It is skittles and monsters (Tony, Lindsey!)
It is changing in the bus
It is hot days and cold nights
It is coming to school sick for marching band
It is Blue and Gold! (Go Marching Monarchs!)
It is guard drama
It is parade competitions
It is watching other schools shows
It is beating Selma's butts at football and marching band (Monarch band 08-09)
It is Straight No Chaser (More of a choir thing, but most of the band is in the choir too)
It is glock blocks
It is the drum major being the shortest senior in the band (we love you Amanda)
It is Haley Hartman! We love you so much!!!!
It is drama baskets
It is embarressing first days of band camp
It is halloween costumes (and the winner is........MJ for his debut as the drag queen)
It is knowing what armed guard really means
It is love/hate relationships with the piccolos (the instrument)
It is "Gideon the Tuba Warrior"
It is knowing what real hat hair is.
It is "Anyway you want it! That's the way you need it! Anyway you want it! Duh duh duh duh duh nuh nuh nuh!"
It is loathing cheerleaders and football players.
It is underwear with a brown streak(it was marker I promise!!)
It is singing a song about said underwear.
It is doing that "voodoo that you do so well" birthday tradition.
It is secret handshakes. (Our's involves llamas :D )
"We're losing, but IT'S okay because we have fireworks!" (-Drum Major 09-10 Now imagine this in a really sarcastic voice)
It is freezing your butt off just to watch a bunch of bands that are better than your school's so that you can steal ideas.
It is the Sierra Mini Band (and flaggie person :D )
It is debating the merits of this year's show and last year's show.
It is loving, laughing, and living. It is band.
A/N: This list is spread out over my freshman year and my sophmore year. To any of you Marching Monarchs who may read this, I love you all so much!