Band Camp - Day 1

 Wooohooo!! Day one is done!! It went rather smoothly without major mishaps. Pictures should be added to the Gallery at the JC Website soon! The whether down here in Oxford, OH is great!! Super hot, super humid, no cool breeze, and no rain. Doesn't get much better. But never fail, the food here at band camp is awesome!

We've already made quite a few changes and additions to the show and the kids are picking them up rather quickly. Hopefully they're all for the better.

I have survived Day 1 and here's a little proof for you!!

Am I Not Beautiful???

I just barely survived because of all the good food I ate!

what a week!

well, where to begin? Since the last post the band has gotten 3rd in two more competitions. The thing to note though is that South lost to Highland at Delaware. I think the kid's reacted more to that than any other announcement yet this year. We're leaving tomorrow for band camp, it should be fun :-). I'm already tired though, which mean's I'll probably perish by the end of the week!

huh...the sun's up!

Interesting weekend. Kinda got slammed with the band but it's a good thing. They named a million things we could fix to decrease the gap between us and the top 2. Much better than them saying awesome job, you guys are great, just 8 points worse than the other guys :-p. This week is the Jay County Contest as well as the Delaware Contest. It will be interesting to see how it goes.

what a night

what a night! Lots of wierd things happened last evening at the Martinsville contest. Not only did the percussion somehow pull of the percussion caption but we had to stay in Martinsville High School for an hour or so because the county was under a storm warning. To start the evening off one of the (new/forced on us) bus drivers got lost on 465, shouldn't they know where they're going and not rely completely on the other drivers??, and ended up getting to the contest 30 minutes late.

We got second behind southside last night by like 4 points.

Martinsville

Band is coming along nicely, stepping and playing the entire show with the first contest next thursday @ Martinsville. Getting a little excited about the track show circuit starting up.

Another Day

I came home to late to make it to band, it was an early practice.

The band learned the rest of the show while I was gone. It's pretty kewl watching them march and play the entire show. Other than the fact the kids talk like crazy it seems they're all in good spirits about the undertaking and are adjusting to Mr. Smeltzer as director. I'm still super excited about the ordeal.

Pool Party!

Cannon ball!



Check out more footage of our summer in the picture gallery!

busy lil’ bee

I came back for the volunteer work. The JC Marching Patriots are off to a good start under the new supervision of Mr. Smeltzer. It's going pretty smooth considering the nasty weather we had the opening week. I have high hopes for our sweet drill and music!!

it’s a new day…

i had this same feeling a couple weeks ago (right after graduation) ....the one where you realize that the life you knew is no more and a new one is beginning. Now I must start a different life, which will last till about August 10th, MARCHING BAND TIME!! So I should be properly distracted for at least that time frame but at some point life is going to catch up :-p

Summer 2003 on Film