It's the last day of January. Thank goodness.
For some reason, this month hasn't felt...right. I'm sure you guys could probably also tell by my rather 'emo' entries at points.
I'm gald it's over, though. Just over four months 'til graduation...
Tonight was our first official concert of the season. Our first one usually happens in December and is our Christmas concert, but we were without instruments (as they were being shipped back from Hawaii) right before Christmas. So it got pushed to mid-January.
Then the snow-pocalypse hit, and we had to push it back another two weeks.
Concert, overall, went really well. There were a few small hiccups, but...there always are. But not enough to be that big of a deal, really. Like I said, every performance has its hiccups.
We played pretty much every song we've been working on since the start of the year. We payed two Christmas songs (because we had to). We played some of the patriotic stuff we prepared for Hawaii, as well as two Fleetwood Mac songs we played at a local fundraiser. Plus our parade rotation. Like I said, it was a hodgepdge of all kinds of things.
It's weird to think that, for all of the performances we've done this year, this was our first official concert. We've done several parades, football games, basketball games, fundraisers...and yet tonight was the first time this year we set up in our school's auditorium and performed for our parents.
Something else that happened at the concert was some talk about Hawaii. Grams (my director) put together a little slide show of pictures from the trip. He recognized the chaperones that put more time and effort into making the trip run smoothly than most people probably realized. (Truly, they're the unsung heroes of this entire endeavor).
Tonight, though, I felt something that I haven't felt for some time: I am very fortunate to be surrounded by the people that I am, they're good people. I love being where I am, with this band. I'm so glad I'm here.
I know I've been saying this for a while now, but, after tonight, I think I'm finally ready to write about Hawaii. Look for it some time this weekend.
Still have a ton of homework to do. I think I'll pop in a movie or two and just power through it all.
'Night, guys.
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