Personal Narrative: Joining Marching Band

Towards the end of my eighth grade, my band director told us, as a band, we have a choice to join Marching Band or not. I decided to join, but about less than a half of the band didn't join. Marching Band started the second week in June. School was out, summer had just begun, but I had one week before Marching Band started. Throughout my whole week, I watch Netflix, played games on my iPad, went to sleep 12 or 1 a.m., and last of all did chores. Fewer kids, children, or teenagers still do chores, it may not be a few, but it could be mostly all the kids, children, or teenagers. I was running late on Monday afternoon. I gathered my instrument, my binder for marching band, and my bag.
"I have to be there at 8:15 a.m. mom," I lied, I was …show more content…
She was in the kitchen making mac and cheese for lunch. I calculated a 5 to 6-minute drive from my house to the high school, but when my mother drives, it takes about 8 to 9-minutes. Hence, I was absolutely late, I arrive approximately 8:25 a.m. As I walked through the main hallway, I hear off-key notes, random notes played through instruments, students trying to play a note, tuning, etc. That's how I was able to locate where the band room was in the high school. As I entered the band room it quietens down because the band director was standing on the podium. I was surprised it hasn't started yet, everyone was either talking, sitting, playing around, using the bathroom, taking out instruments, and etc. I walked towards the band room and turned to my left, once I turned left, there was the biggest, largest, enormous, instrument lying on the floor I've ever seen. But it wasn't too huge like an elephant. I walked around the instrument and set my bag on the floor next to the wall so it wouldn't plunge on its own. I took out my instrument and my folder and sat in the front row, at the edge. It's not that I didn't know where to sit, it's where the flutes sat; flutes sat in the first-row, clarinets sat in the second row, saxophones, tenor-saxophones, french horns sat in the third row, finally the last row are trumpet, baritones, and trombones. I don't remember what the band director announced, but there …show more content…
Another word that can go with heat is that all the marching students worked hard. The 25th of July was the same thing as Friday 10th of June. Then Tuesday through Thursday was the toughest days of marching band. On Friday, we did our warm-up, marched, practiced as a whole band, and then practiced in sectionals. I do recall at the end of Friday all the marching band students went outside in their section doing activities such as red rover, hide-and-seek, Chinese telephone, tag, and etc. And got to know one another in our section and other sections. Monday through Friday was spirit week another occasion that was going on during marching band. Spirit week was dress up days and our section didn't win, it was either saxophones, clarinets, or Drumline. Then our season was starting to unfold at the beginning of August. I don't remember the schedule... Dutch of Touch Parade, invites; either at the high school or at another high school, football, and basketball

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