Band Camp-- Day 1

Time has quickly past as the summer months draw to a close, but before we are ready to set foot in the crowd filled football stadium to display our show, we must prepare it first. Band camp is where the magic of flagging begins. As I rose early on Monday morning the thoughts of preparing our band show excited me. I quickly took a shower and braided my hair so nothing could stand in the way of me learning my routine,not even my wild and frizzy, curly hair. When mother finally arose I tried everything in my power to get her to rush along so we could leave. Mother pulled into the parking lot five minutes late as the straggling band members slowly walked through the band room doors.

    The time I had anxiously been waiting for was right before me as I raced to the student parking lot. When the team was reunited, Cheryl handed us a piece of chalk which quickly became our best friend. In order to start plotting our sets, we had to have our plot charts, which is a grid with our placements on the field. As we began to find where our places were, we would mark them with the chalk.   Finally after two hours of plotting sets it was time to break into sectionals.

Sectionals were the most relaxing time during band camp, but that was not saying much. Cheryl was a stickler for discipline but this taught us to respect her. As we went into our first sectional my excitement had already left as the heat from the blazing sun lowered my energy level greatly. Cheryl began to expound upon what our agenda was for our time in sectionals. As we stood in front of the auditorium Cheryl began to teach us our basic tosses. For the ladies that came to the practices over the summer that did not face them with a challenge, but for the girls that never came this faced them with great difficulty. After we successfully completed our basic tosses it was time for the first day of band camp to end. (355)