John81

[Ashlee]

On Saturday we had our first marching band competition. We have been Grand Champions every year since they started having it. This year a bunch of people decided they didn't want to work at all. They goofed off and wouldn't focus.

So we go to the competition, and all the new people who were being unfocused got SCARED. there were so many bands that looked just as good as we were. Then it was our turn, and there were many mistakes that had been fixed multiple times. :thumbdown

So after we went (we were last) we lined up in a block to be ranked. the announced us a third place. out of 211 band members we have 25-30 seniors. I know of two who weren't sobbing, me and one other girl. It was rough.


To make matters worse, when we are announced, we go to attention because it's classier. When the first place band was announced, they started screaming "Derby *Stinks*". They were mad at us because our football team totally decimated theirs the night before, and then they beat us.


Anyway, we got back to our high school, and got a lovely speech. They talked about how that really didn't feel good, and could we guess why it didn't. Then they wrote the scores on the board. it turns out that for some reason 77 of our points hadn't been counted. our director looked and the box was empty. so they went to get it fixed, and we actually had won by 5 points. out of 900.



So i am exhausted because i was gone for 12 hours, extremely mad at people who won't focus AND at at the people who didn't notice. and yes i know that it's not all that rational. And i am extremely happy because we actually did get first.

:zzzz :mad: :yeah:

[John81]

Wow Ashlee! That's one awesome and riviting story!!

It's amazing how things go and the roller coaster our emotions can ride at times.

Your story would actually make for a great movie. This reminded me somewhat of "Facing the Giants", except your story is real! :thumb

Praise God he pointed out weaknesses that need to be worked on and for those who paid attention, lessons that can be applied to other aspects of life. And praise God that those with the poor attitude had their high positions stripped from them and you received the first place.

In all things, God is good! :clap:

[Ashlee]

It is really like facing the giants because we actually did pray before the competition. it was kinda weird and short because the girl leading it is agnostic :puzzled: but we prayed. it was just clarinets though, at least that i know of.

[John81]

Well praise God, it's an awesome story and I'd love to see the movie! :Green

[Ashlee]

well, i'll try to send you the tape of it online. we can buy a DVD of the entire competition.

[John81]

It's amazing how much technology has advanced since I was in high school!

[Ashlee]

They had high school when you were young?

[John81]

I went to high school in the building they started using the year after my Mom graduated.

[Ashlee]

did it have more than one room?

[John81]

Sure! One on each side of the gym :Green

[Ashlee]

we have almost 2000 students at my high school

[John81]

We had less than 200 in ours.

[Ashlee]

that's the size of our band. :lol:

[John81]

Our band was smaller :smile

I think there were only 39 in my graduating class.

[Ashlee]

we have almost five hundred.