***Our school has three different campuses that are separated. They are less than a mile apart. The PAC or the Performing Arts Center is where the band hall, choir rooms, and drama rooms are. It is also where the auditorium and the recital hall is.***
Chapter 2 Day of BOA
I got up early in the morning finding my things getting
ready for BOA. This year we were lucky, we weren't the first group to perform so
we didn't have to get up nearly as early as the year before. My father took me
to the PAC where I met up with Michelle. Who was roaming around the band hall
being silly as normal. The first thing I heard from someone was. "Did you
hear? Krista got in a wreck last night." It was already around the flute
and alto sax sections. Hearing that I went to find Krista who was in the big
band hall with her little sister.
"Hi, How are you this morning?" I asked her worriedly.
"We are okay." she said with a half smile.
"Me too just a little shaken up. I'm glad your feeling better. I got to get
my stuff together." I said leaving.
I walked in the small band hall to my locker where there wasn't very many people which made me happy. I found my marching shoes and gloves in there from the night before and put them in the bag. I didn't need more horn today since I was helping move equipment instead of marching. "Hi, Jess!" I heard a voice behind me, "Have you seen Zach." It was Halie who had just arrived. I told her I hadn't seen her boyfriend but would tell her as soon as I saw him. Since I had another 20 minutes to wait. I decided to go find someone to talk to. Just my luck, Veronica walked in the door. "Hi Jessie! Can't talk long my moms car won't start and she doesn't have her cell phone. I just came to get mine." I just gave a half smile and nodded leaving the band hall.
I sat in the corridor watching people come in. Quite a few people arrive later than I thought. I saw Zach's little brother, Jessy, walk in finally. He came to ask me if I were okay from the night before and where Kallie and Krista was. I told him they were probably in the big band hall. Zach came in a couple minutes later. He gave me a hug and asked me if I was okay. I replied Yes getting a little annoyed at the question, knowing that it was going to get worse when the rest of my section finds out. I told him Halie was in the small band hall and had been looking for him.
10 o'clock final run through before competition
Ms. P had call everyone in the big band hall to tell us where we were going to warm-up. She had separated the brass, woodwinds, and percussionist into different band halls. Then she divided the floor crew from the other three crews. I was apart of the floor crew and we were going to refold the target so it was easier to pull out. It took us about an hour to unfold it, sweep off the dirt, do last minute patches, and refold it. We then went back to get ready to change into are uniforms. Since the rest of the band was out side, we had no trouble changing quickly.
11:30 Pep talk
We had gather all are things and the loading crew was done with there jobs. Ms. P had sat us down in the band hall and told us something she told at the beginning of the year. She said we had done the work. Had lots of practices learned the show and improve. She said we had the show loaded and ready to go. Now all we had to do was fire it at the judges. She said we hadn't know what she meant when she first told us but now we should all understand. WE loaded the buses with sheets of inspiration from are SLT's.
I sat on the bus with Michelle who played baritone. She was busy reading the paper the SLT's made for us. So, I sat down and did the same. This year the competition meant more to us than it did last year. This year was new and we need to know how the new band would hold up. The bus ride was loud with the seniors and the section leaders wishing everyone luck. I was glad everyone was paying more attention to that. It meant I wasn't going to be babied today. The rest of the bus ride went okay. I was joking around with Michelle telling he I didn't want to ride the bus to the Alamo dome and that I would walk
After 45 minutes we reached the dome. James gave his speech to everyone wishing them luck. Everyone on the bus was either excited or nervous. Finally someone came and called the crews off the buses. This was it all we had was a twenty minute warm-up and it was time to compete.
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I took some advice from some people about my writing and added more paragraphs. Please review and leave me more advice. Thanks. I'll add "chapter 3 Time to compete" in a couple of weeks. Enjoy. This is all real by the way.