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6 days

S O O N

Nice!!

Leaving for the first competition!! I think we're gonna get 3rd 🤙

Don’t die your marching band will need their badass tenor sax

Imagine getting covid and pneumonia at the same time.... Couldn't be me.....

happy hallowing you can take TWO pieces

Yeah spring is great and pretty but I’m coughing and sneezing every third word I say so it’s a bit of a toss up for me.

Wildflower season is here!!

I love spring 🥰

AAAAAAAAAAAA CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!

we made finals at state championships

WE MADE FINALS AT STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS 😭😭😭

My band director put a hole in the ceiling with a trumpet mute

the band room

When I first stepped into the place that we call

“the band room,”

I didn’t like it at all.

There was paint peeling

off the walls

and there were stains

on the carpet.

The room smelled like wet socks after it rained,

and instrument cases hung out of the cubbies.

But that was when the room was empty.

When my fellow band kids stepped inside

the stains on the floor magically disappeared.

When music filled the air 

no one cared about how much paint was peeling off the walls. 

When we came back in after a long marching practice

no one cared that they were sweaty or cold 

because the room felt like a warm hug.

After we came back from a long competition,

the band room was still waiting for us.

It always seemed to have that effect 

when the people I cared about most were in it.

On the last day I stepped into that room with my friends

they told me that the carpenters had finally painted over the off-white walls.

The old crusty carpet had been replaced with clean, gray fuzz.

I didn’t notice because to me

it had always looked that way with my friends in it.

When it was finally time to leave,

I stopped at the door

and smiled at the one place that had been a constant

when everything else in my life had seemed to change.

I guess that’s the thing about the band room.

It tricked me into thinking

four years

was a very long time.

One of our clarinets got a converse tan

band camp sock tan 😔 (i can’t stop it, it’s a canon event)