Memories

Yesterday was Throwback Thursday on instagram...as it is every Thursday. Sometimes I like to participate and be nostalgic. Yesterday, my picture of choice was from band camp, senior year of high school.

In high school, I was a band nerd. And I was super proud of it (still am). I was highly involved in band, I was a section leader, I helped out with the senior projects at band camp, I played in the pep band, I played in the jazz ensemble, I played in the wind ensemble.

I. Loved. Band.

Many of my memories in high school are of long nights of practice, freezing cold nights at football games, and of competing in all of the bands I was part of. I wrote about the impact of being in band back in January of 2013, but it's something that I cannot state enough. Band really did change my life.


The picture I shared yesterday is just one example of the many ridiculous memories I have from my time in band. That year, our senior year of band camp, the seniors had decided to prank the band by covering everything in plastic wrap the night before our last morning practice. The senior prank, at the time, was a long standing tradition. When we arrived at rehearsal in the morning, someone had the idea to wrap our band director in plastic wrap as well. A few of us grabbed rolls of plastic wrap and started running towards him, and he ran away. We chased him around the field for a bit, and finally he accepted his fate, which was when the picture was taken. We all laughed hysterically as we ran in circles around him covering him in plastic wrap and then watching as he waddled away to have someone cut it off of him.

It's memories like those that really make me remember my time in band fondly. I've been horrible about keeping in touch with people I was in band with as our lives have taken us in different directions. I still think of them, though, and remember the awesomeness that we shared. We were a family...a close knit group of people unlike any other group I have been part of since, and probably unlike any group I will ever be part of in the future. There are some things that you can only share with people who have had that shared experience with you.

And for that I will always be thankful.