In high school, all your friends were in band. Band was the school's largest clique.
You went through everything together. Hell Week (aka Band Camp), bus rides, and competitions were all spent with your best friends at your side. Somehow you survived and did it again the next year.
Here's the typical marching band season as told by ' "Friends":
1. The first icebreaker always makes you question how the band won anything last year.
Dear God, help us learn how to march and play music again.
2. Before Band Camp.
What's more exciting than learning new music, drill, and movement while standing out in a hot parking lot for 12 hours??
3. When the staff asks you why you didn't finish your dot-book over lunch break.
Lunch breaks are meant for food, friends, and power naps. No dot-books allowed.
4. After Band Camp.
The last day of Band Camp is probably one of the best days of the entire season. Good thing school picture day isn't on the first day of school.
5. Can't forget about those post band camp tan-lines.
Band Camp helps you tan in all the wrong places.
6. When the band director says "Lets run it again," and it's the set where you have to jazz run across half the field.
It's as if they want to torture you. Watching the band kids struggle to get from set 19 to set 20 is the purest form of entertainment for the staff up top.
7. Sometimes they actually tell you to sing your part on the field.
Right, because we all know high school band kids can sing.
8. Whether you like it or not, there's always that one person that is next to you for the entire Part 3.
Extra props if it's your best friend. If it's not, you have a lot of stories to tell them about when you had to practice next to 'insert name here.'
9. When the band leadership asks your section to clean after practice.
It's at this point where you suddenly disappear. You were already late for your TV shows back home anyway.
10. When your section is getting in the zone before performing the show.
Every section has their own way of preparing for a major performance. We all probably look like idiots but we're idiots together.
11. As a freshman, you felt this way before your first show.
Nothing is more nerve-wracking than stepping out onto the field for the first time in uniform.
12. Remember that time you actually performed in the daytime?
Why is this even allowed? You can barely see the Drum Major and you're losing weight and sanity by sweating buckets through the uniform.
13. When it's your last practice of the season and the tech corrects you.
Turns out you've been doing the movement in Part 4 wrong this entire time.
14. After state finals there's a huge celebration.
We did it.
