band
Sup guys. It’s been a while since my last blog post, sorry about that but I’m going to put a lot of them on this summer. This one’s about band camp. Around my birthday I had my Grandparents send me money for the 425$ band camp. I know, how am I going to get 425$ by the start of summer when I only get 5$ a week.But I had a plan. Maybe if I could get 50$ from each of my 8 Grandparents I could get the rest my self.
So I called my Grandparents and asked them for some money as my birthday present. The good news, some sent 200 dollars so I didn’t even have to ask the other grand parents. It was like a miracle that I had any money left over, even more 200$. So I’d like to say thanks to all my Grandparents. Thank you.
Now about the actual band camp. These are the only few things we had to pack.
Instrument in working order
reeds, neck straps, valve oil, etc
notebook with paper for your class
blanket and sheets- it’s cold in the dorms at night
pillow and case, soup, wash clothes, and towels
casual clothes for 5 days and night’s
nice clothes- shirt tie and slackes
swimsuit
money
cellphones
I was going the band camp with my best friend. Since we were staying with each other we had to register together. I just stayed the night with him the night before. Just imagine 2 times as many clothes and stuff and a huge baritone in there tiny car. It was hard.
We had a bunch of lessons and pizza and soda and time just being bored. While being bored I made this out of pokerchips.
We had activities at night like swimming, basket ball, or special ones some times, like Band camp olympics. We had the messiest time ever.The first event was the mouthwash dash. We had to have our coach pour mouthwash into our mouths, run over to the bucket , and spit it all out. It tasted like a mix between licorice and grapefruit. We ended up winning that one. We also did stuff like EGG DODGEBALL, KETCHUP MUSTARD RELISH AND CANNED BLUEBERRY TWISTER, PANCAKE BATTER RELAY ,and 2LITTER DIET COKE CHUG.
Then we get to friday. It was time for our concert. We played the four songs that we learned for our concert. In 5 days we learned 4 songs and played them better than the high school. We were the honor band so we were the best in the camp. We tried out to see who would be what chair in what band. I got first chair in the honors band. Back to the concert. we played songs where baritones had solo’s and did awesome. At the end of the concert she gave rewards. I got the most out standing brass performer in the honors band. I will put the picture up here out of the newspaper I’m going to be in. Now I have to go, it’s bedtime.
That sounds like lots of fun. When I was in band I went to a one day honors band camp. (they didn’t do a weeklong one) I played bass clarinet. The band was made from 3 different counties so it was a big thing to get to go. I miss playing an instrument now but I’ve tried and I squeak a lot now.
not much fun squeaking LOL.