So band camp 2008 is now officially over as of nine thirty last night. I was so tired that I couldn't be bothered to write up a summary of the week. Right now it hurts to walk because my calves are aching and I'm still tired... I slept until noon.

So this week wasn't as great as last week. A twelve-hour day makes us very tired and so much less ready to work. The Monday was okay, as we had just had the weekend to recover, but Tuesday we were so tired we could hardly think straight. Come Wednesday (early release!) we were just ready to go home and take a nap. Thursday was better, but yesterday, we were all just ready for it to be over. I'm ashamed to admit that I made a couple of really stupid errors and got called out from the tower. I always know when it's the main band director, he's the only one that calls me by my first AND last name! So where he calls someone else "Mike", he calls me "Jane Doe". I got called out once and ended up doing a bunch of pushups. We still owe the trumpet instructor twenty of 'em.

Speaking of pushups, I messed up my wrist doing them. It's swollen and it hurts to bend it. If it keeps bugging me we're going to the doctor, but hopefully it'll heal on its own. We have to do the pushups when we mess up, though I've yet to see a freshman doing them! By day three of my first band camp (last year), I was doing them every other rep!

So last night was the parent preview show and we totally rocked the house. I don't know if the news cameras ever showed up, but I know that I was on the front page of the paper! When the director called "Bring it in" for the last time, EVERYONE screamed and we all rushed for the tower. I think some parents were glad they weren't in our way, we seriously would have pushed them aside!

So overall, it was a decent camp but I'm glad it's over!