The hills are alive with the sound of state marching contest
Yes, the rumors are true, the Celina High School Bobcat Marcing Band from Celina under the direction of Ross Ruhtherford, Brian Weatherman, and Corey Gilmore is going to state.
I am fiercely happy about this, don't get me wrong, but the bahavoir of our band disappointed me, but I'll get to that later.
In the morning we hit some sets and corrected things that have been plaguing us for months. WE CORRECTED SOO MANY THINGS IN 20 MINUTES. If we did it then, we could've done it earlier.
We ate at Whataburger, and let me tell you, I had no idea they were that good. They had the best onion rings everrrrrr, and their burger was pretty tasty.
We weren't too sure about our Preliminary competition, but I think the fact that there were people there that weren't parents or even in band supporting us made the performance subconciously better. Thanks to Madi, Taylor, Kelsey, Jessica, Jenny, D'Ann, Morgan, Karley, Lincoln, Whitney, Kara, and whoever else was there, by the way.
By the way, the musicT's stand was selling teddy bears with little custom T-shirts on, and there were two samples sitting out on the table. One had on a Celina Bobcat T-shirt, the other had on an Argle Eagle T-shirt....creepy.
We couldn't beleive we even made the finals, let alone be ranked 3rd.....1 point above Howe (they got chewed out for letting Celina rank above them).
(We got ranked 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 3rd, and 8th)
At Frisco we maintained our position from prelims to finals, so we knew it was possible to do it again.
Our second performance was pretty good; I know I thought the film looked pretty nice.
(That time I think we got ranked 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 3rd and 5th, though I'm not certain)
We screamed soooo loudly when they announced us (in reverse alphabetical order), however, I felt so bad because Howe was sitting right behind us and they had been to state for like 30 years in a row and we broke their streak. Holiday and Argyle didn't hurt them as much as our yelling. Some people in our band need to learn the proper amount of hoopla to still be considered civilized. Then, in the bus, we kept yelling and in the bus right beside us, Howe was crying.
Mr. Rutherford and Mr. Weatherman were both almost in tears at the end of the night. On the way back to Celina, we had a police escort from Prosper to the high school
So after we got back to Celina, a bunch of us went to IHOP, and Mr. R and W came-----at IHOP they talked to us about their feeling. All that day they had been telling us that we could do it and going to state was possible. However, at IHOP, Mr. R told us that he had already gotten hotel reservations and booked a charter bus two weeks ago. At IHOP, we also learned that butter pecan syrup tastes like alcohol and pecans and ice is a good representation of Argyle's band, while howe and celina can be represented easily by cell phones.
I personally think that school should let out for us to go to state and the entire school should go.
After IHOP, Auburn, Kris(he met us at IHOP) , Cain, Brittany, and I and whoever else went to Wal Mart where Auburn got to ride in the little motorized shopping cart for people who cant walk, and we learned that you aren't allowed to take pictures in Wal-Mart.
Apparently, our biggest competition is Holiday and Argyle (with maybe a couple others elsewhere), so really we need to beat the socks off Argyle before the socks beat us.
I am fiercely happy about this, don't get me wrong, but the bahavoir of our band disappointed me, but I'll get to that later.
In the morning we hit some sets and corrected things that have been plaguing us for months. WE CORRECTED SOO MANY THINGS IN 20 MINUTES. If we did it then, we could've done it earlier.
We ate at Whataburger, and let me tell you, I had no idea they were that good. They had the best onion rings everrrrrr, and their burger was pretty tasty.
We weren't too sure about our Preliminary competition, but I think the fact that there were people there that weren't parents or even in band supporting us made the performance subconciously better. Thanks to Madi, Taylor, Kelsey, Jessica, Jenny, D'Ann, Morgan, Karley, Lincoln, Whitney, Kara, and whoever else was there, by the way.
By the way, the musicT's stand was selling teddy bears with little custom T-shirts on, and there were two samples sitting out on the table. One had on a Celina Bobcat T-shirt, the other had on an Argle Eagle T-shirt....creepy.
We couldn't beleive we even made the finals, let alone be ranked 3rd.....1 point above Howe (they got chewed out for letting Celina rank above them).
(We got ranked 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 3rd, and 8th)
At Frisco we maintained our position from prelims to finals, so we knew it was possible to do it again.
Our second performance was pretty good; I know I thought the film looked pretty nice.
(That time I think we got ranked 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 3rd and 5th, though I'm not certain)
We screamed soooo loudly when they announced us (in reverse alphabetical order), however, I felt so bad because Howe was sitting right behind us and they had been to state for like 30 years in a row and we broke their streak. Holiday and Argyle didn't hurt them as much as our yelling. Some people in our band need to learn the proper amount of hoopla to still be considered civilized. Then, in the bus, we kept yelling and in the bus right beside us, Howe was crying.
Mr. Rutherford and Mr. Weatherman were both almost in tears at the end of the night. On the way back to Celina, we had a police escort from Prosper to the high school
So after we got back to Celina, a bunch of us went to IHOP, and Mr. R and W came-----at IHOP they talked to us about their feeling. All that day they had been telling us that we could do it and going to state was possible. However, at IHOP, Mr. R told us that he had already gotten hotel reservations and booked a charter bus two weeks ago. At IHOP, we also learned that butter pecan syrup tastes like alcohol and pecans and ice is a good representation of Argyle's band, while howe and celina can be represented easily by cell phones.
I personally think that school should let out for us to go to state and the entire school should go.
After IHOP, Auburn, Kris(he met us at IHOP) , Cain, Brittany, and I and whoever else went to Wal Mart where Auburn got to ride in the little motorized shopping cart for people who cant walk, and we learned that you aren't allowed to take pictures in Wal-Mart.
Apparently, our biggest competition is Holiday and Argyle (with maybe a couple others elsewhere), so really we need to beat the socks off Argyle before the socks beat us.
posted by Andrew at 1:10 PM
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7 Comments:
Who's going to STATE?.......
CELINA's going to STATE!!!!!!!!!
i did feel a little bad about the whole howe thing, and ill admit i was one of the crazyiest ones, but i couldn't help it!
That makes me really wish I could have gone. Poo.
I knew about the reservation thing. Mrs. Reed made the hotel reservations some time ago (I guess it was 2 weeks) just in case, because if we did make it, we wouldn't have enough time to get reservations at the right hotel(?).
I agree with you on the shouting. I really didn't like Mrs. Velders doing all of those cheers, especially before we knew the rankings.
Since my copy of The Crucible, all butchered up as it is, is probably not the best thing to read off of, I'm having to type out my cuts. I couldn't find an etext, so it looks like it's all by hand. If anyone can find an etext or something it would really make this a lot easier.
andrew, take care that you don't lose sight of the accomplish for the behavior of others. we've been the hardest working band in Texas since 1999, and it's high time yall were thrown a bone. perhaps some of the freaking out was merited.
as for howe crying and such: so? maybe they should've worked harder. i cried too when we lost in 2001. and i fucking hated jim ned. howe didn't even have a phil anthony to blame it on. 1,2,2,3,5 is pretty decisive.
you've been busting your ass. i know how hard the work is, how cold the mornings are, how dry your lungs get during that mile, how you are fixing to get detetion from your 2nd period teacher for being tardy. i know about all of that. and i know that yall deserve it. celebrate. if not, don't hate on the ones that do.
I think the main reason Argyle and Holiday did not scream as loud as us is because they go pretty much every year. On the other hand, it was a freakin' MIRACLE we made it!
Alright, here is my newest innovation...tone tags. They resemble html tags and dictate the tone of a passage, because people have a tendency to overvalue the gravity of my statements. I do think we deserve to celebrate for what we've accomplished, I do beleive that some people took the screaming a little too far...and this is coming from a naturally loud and cacophonus person. I personally felt selfconscious about being so close to Howe, however, I'm not feeling bad because they cried, only because it gave the impression that we were gloating.
OK, Mrs. Velders just needs to hold her tongue sometimes. Like when we were watching film and she's all like, "wow, look at the battery!!!" and "Oh my gosh you guys, it all looks so good" You have to be there to know what I mean
I have to correct you on one thing. We never got chewed out. If at anything she Mrs E. said we did the best we could. Our best however wasnt good enough at all. To tell you the truth i think alot of it had to do with the director not caring about this season as much as she should have.
Yes, there were a few people crying on our bus but they were mainly the very few people that actually cared about what had just happened.
Good luck to everyone of you guys in san antonio! i'll be cheering you guys on.
i love malakoff.
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