So this week has been pretty eventful. As I've mentioned in previous posts, the Gruver Band was going to have Concert/Sightreading contest on a Wednesday. Well that got moved because of the blizzard to the day before yesterday. Our band traveled to Panhandle to compete in this contest. Actually it's not really a competition since everyone gets an individual score. Anyways... We arrived to Panhandle, got off the bus (already in uniform), and went straight to our warm up room. After our reeds were wet, and tuning taken care of, we moved to the auditorium for our performance for the judges. We were about to show three men what we've worked for since before Christmas. (I've gotten extremely tired of playing the same three songs for this long). We played our songs very well, I thought, and transferred over to the sightreading room. Three more judges waited for us there. They handed out our music, and told Mrs. Nusz, our band director, she could begin her three minute lookover of the score. When her time was up, she told us to turn over our music, and she began her seven minute time of explaining the piece. When that was up, she had three minutes to count rhythms for us and go into more detail of what the song contained. When that time was up.. Sigh.... We played "Magestic Spirit" the best we could. None of us had ever seen the music before, and the judges said we were the most confident band they had seen all morning. That made us feel good! We anxiously waited on the bus for about twenty minutes, hoping Mrs. Nusz would return with a trophy. Of course, she did, and we left Panhandle with our 4th Sweepstakes Title!!! We received 1's from all 6 judges! Or 9, counting the three from marching season. Sweepstakes is a great accomplishment for any band, and we are so proud.
Off the band topic, cheer tryouts were this week. Tuesday were tryouts in front of judges, and Thursday were student body tryouts. This was my last year to tryout, so it was kind of sad. I wasn't as nervous as past years, but still a little shaky for the judges. I made it, along with five other girls. Just another accomplishment this week, I guess.
Last night, I had to work the concession stand for the junior high track meet. It was STRESSFUL. I thought basketball games were busy, try a million junior high kids demanding for food when there's clearly none left. I almost had a panic attack. Everyone else working thought it gave them "such a rush" though.. Not for me. I was only there for two hours, and hated it. I'm adding that as a weekly accomplishment as well. Just because I survived.
Love Always,
Hannah
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