Hey everyone!
So today I am absolutely shocked. You see, last night we had winterguard auditions and there we learned a new flag routine and a new dance routine. After that we performed them in groups. So I thought I did okay in the flag one and then I was practicing for the dance and suddenly I got a callback! Meaning I had a chance of being on the Open guard (a.k.a the varsity of guard) Then we did the dance and I thought I did awesome! Afterwards, we all sat down and my instructors talked to us about the season and what our shows will be. The AA guard's show is called "The Promise of Living" and its supposed to be all pretty and bright coral colors. Then, they talked about the Open guards show. I'm not exactly sure what it's called beside Tornado but it's sort of a symbolism thing. The tornado stands for something in your life that happened so fast and there was nothing you could do about it so the damage is stuck with you forever. But in the end we eventually move on. That's what the show is and after I heard that I was in tears because it completely connected with me. They showed us the music for it (Tornado by Jonsi and The Promise of Living by Aaron C.) I loved Tornado but the Promise of living sounded like a show we did before so I was upset because I thought that I'd hate the show. The next morning also known as today I went over to the cork board outside the band room and what do I see?
OPEN GUARD:
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Calyn Tinklenberg
I MADE THE OPEN GUARD! Well, me and 2 other freshman but this has been our 4th year of winterguard and we've all improved so much since we were little 6th graders. Anyways I'm so excited for this season! But also terrified because I'm a freshman on the "varsity" team. It's scary and awesome at the same time. There's no words to describe how I feel about this. Happy Thanksgiving guys! My week of happiness is complete! Enjoy yours!
Sincerely,
Tinkerbell
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
I hear jingle bells!
Hey everyone!
So I cannot wait until Christmas! I don't know about you guys but there is just a certain scent to Christmas that I absolutely love! All of the sparkly glass ornaments with the bright colorful lights just make me smile every single time I go downstairs from my bedroom. Not to mention finally seeing my gigantic tree with presents all over the bottom. Problem for me is all I want for Christmas is a redecorated room. I have all the color schemes planned out (red and gold/tan) and my uncle, grandpa, and I are going to build a loft! Yes, my very own loft bed with stairs leading up to the top and space on the bottom for my desk! I can't wait to have so much room to do other things! It's going to be so exciting! However, there's one holiday that we have to have before all of this Christmas stuff comes up: Thanksgiving. The best time for the best food in my opinion. My family's tradition is that we have thanksgiving at our house because it's entirely fall colors. Our kitchen lights are red yellow and brown and all of our furniture is fall colors. The only odd one out is my room which is bright blue. But that's not the reason I want it redecorated. The reasoning is that I want a more calm room with space to relax and hang out with friends. Anyways back to Thanksgiving. We celebrate at my house and everyone brings casserole or bread or, my favorite, sweet potatoes with marshmallows! So then we eat and we chill out for a bit and the guys usually watch whatever sports game is going on while the moms clean up and talk. During that time I do what I do best! Decorating for Christmas! I get the whole tree up myself and set up the lights and get all my favorite ornaments out and start scattering them all over the tree. After that we finally leave for our competitive part, bowling. All of us go to the stardust bowling alley and play all of our family against each other. Of course, the only time I get to bowl is once a year so I'm not the greatest at it. Especially after decorating and eating. So yeah! That is my thanksgiving! And guess what? Thanksgiving is next week! I'm happy for that. Except the problem is since colorguard is over winterguard is on the way. As in winterguard auditions are the week after thanksgiving. So much for an awesome sleep filled vacation right?
Sincerely,
Tinkerbell
So I cannot wait until Christmas! I don't know about you guys but there is just a certain scent to Christmas that I absolutely love! All of the sparkly glass ornaments with the bright colorful lights just make me smile every single time I go downstairs from my bedroom. Not to mention finally seeing my gigantic tree with presents all over the bottom. Problem for me is all I want for Christmas is a redecorated room. I have all the color schemes planned out (red and gold/tan) and my uncle, grandpa, and I are going to build a loft! Yes, my very own loft bed with stairs leading up to the top and space on the bottom for my desk! I can't wait to have so much room to do other things! It's going to be so exciting! However, there's one holiday that we have to have before all of this Christmas stuff comes up: Thanksgiving. The best time for the best food in my opinion. My family's tradition is that we have thanksgiving at our house because it's entirely fall colors. Our kitchen lights are red yellow and brown and all of our furniture is fall colors. The only odd one out is my room which is bright blue. But that's not the reason I want it redecorated. The reasoning is that I want a more calm room with space to relax and hang out with friends. Anyways back to Thanksgiving. We celebrate at my house and everyone brings casserole or bread or, my favorite, sweet potatoes with marshmallows! So then we eat and we chill out for a bit and the guys usually watch whatever sports game is going on while the moms clean up and talk. During that time I do what I do best! Decorating for Christmas! I get the whole tree up myself and set up the lights and get all my favorite ornaments out and start scattering them all over the tree. After that we finally leave for our competitive part, bowling. All of us go to the stardust bowling alley and play all of our family against each other. Of course, the only time I get to bowl is once a year so I'm not the greatest at it. Especially after decorating and eating. So yeah! That is my thanksgiving! And guess what? Thanksgiving is next week! I'm happy for that. Except the problem is since colorguard is over winterguard is on the way. As in winterguard auditions are the week after thanksgiving. So much for an awesome sleep filled vacation right?
Sincerely,
Tinkerbell
Sunday, November 13, 2011
It's over.
Hey everyone!
That is it, after Saturday November 12, 2011 the Somewhere in Time colorguard season was done for. And with that I'm incredibly sad because of the many memories I've made here. I may only be a freshman and have many shows to come but it's still depressing to know that I won't see any of my senior friends again. Okay, so there were moments where I wasn't exactly happy with how they treated me, but in the end we're all a huge guard family. With plenty of tears and plenty of cheers we all got through this season too fast. It feels as if it were only yesterday that we were learning the crazy dance routine our dance instructor Dustin made up in May. Suddenly its November and I'm sad that we won't be doing that dance again or hearing that classic Somewhere in Time music unless it's on DVD or our ipod. perhaps there is a way to post it here! I'll have to find that out. But anyways just a gist of how this season went.
Alright, it all started with a crazy dance we learned in May during tryouts and I was devastated by how horribly uncoordinated I was.
Next came the parade season, where we learned the "parade routine" and went to 3 parades. Each long and extremely hot. Along with the fact that we were forced to wear our t-shirts tucked in our khaki shorts. We also had to have our hair in a big poof in the front and a messy bun which I finally learned by pretty much the very end of the season.
Finally band camp came. Two of the longest weeks in my entire life and two of the hottest too. I learned that week go bring a water bottle cooler instead of usual plastic, otherwise the water becomes lukewarm and really gross. By the end of band cap we had finished most of part 1 and part 2, so on the last day all of our family came to see what we had so far.
After that came football games. Where we wore basically the same thing as we did parades except for black shorts. Hair was sadly the same too.
Then, my favorite of them all, performances finally came! Our first was a Concord Invitational where we always get first every single year. It's really no surprise to any of us about this performance, although it's kind of mean to believe that we'll always get first because you never know. After that was another performance where we sadly got 2nd to Homestead whom later got 1st at State Finals. BOA came too fast and we got 3rd place at regional. And then, BOA grand nationals was the next weekend, (a.k.a this weekend) and we rocked both prelims and semi-finals. But in the end we got 21 out of 33. None of us knows why that happened. Perhaps it's because of the Texas marching bands that come only a few years at a time. After that it was over, we didn't make finals and so everyone was crying. We had to watch finals of course because we already paid for our tickets. Then, I didn't ride the bus home, I had a separate hotel room with my family.
Now, it's over and there's no telling what next year's show will entail. I can never really predict what shows we will do, especially in Winterguard when last year we were a ship and a carousel. I just hope that I'll always remember this season. It's been one of the best! But now I can finally relax at home! For a month at least before winter guard starts. Let's hope that next year we'll make it to finals and be one of the top bands in America. We are LC after all, the Tribe of Pride.
Sincerely,
Tinkerbell
That is it, after Saturday November 12, 2011 the Somewhere in Time colorguard season was done for. And with that I'm incredibly sad because of the many memories I've made here. I may only be a freshman and have many shows to come but it's still depressing to know that I won't see any of my senior friends again. Okay, so there were moments where I wasn't exactly happy with how they treated me, but in the end we're all a huge guard family. With plenty of tears and plenty of cheers we all got through this season too fast. It feels as if it were only yesterday that we were learning the crazy dance routine our dance instructor Dustin made up in May. Suddenly its November and I'm sad that we won't be doing that dance again or hearing that classic Somewhere in Time music unless it's on DVD or our ipod. perhaps there is a way to post it here! I'll have to find that out. But anyways just a gist of how this season went.
Alright, it all started with a crazy dance we learned in May during tryouts and I was devastated by how horribly uncoordinated I was.
Next came the parade season, where we learned the "parade routine" and went to 3 parades. Each long and extremely hot. Along with the fact that we were forced to wear our t-shirts tucked in our khaki shorts. We also had to have our hair in a big poof in the front and a messy bun which I finally learned by pretty much the very end of the season.
Finally band camp came. Two of the longest weeks in my entire life and two of the hottest too. I learned that week go bring a water bottle cooler instead of usual plastic, otherwise the water becomes lukewarm and really gross. By the end of band cap we had finished most of part 1 and part 2, so on the last day all of our family came to see what we had so far.
After that came football games. Where we wore basically the same thing as we did parades except for black shorts. Hair was sadly the same too.
Then, my favorite of them all, performances finally came! Our first was a Concord Invitational where we always get first every single year. It's really no surprise to any of us about this performance, although it's kind of mean to believe that we'll always get first because you never know. After that was another performance where we sadly got 2nd to Homestead whom later got 1st at State Finals. BOA came too fast and we got 3rd place at regional. And then, BOA grand nationals was the next weekend, (a.k.a this weekend) and we rocked both prelims and semi-finals. But in the end we got 21 out of 33. None of us knows why that happened. Perhaps it's because of the Texas marching bands that come only a few years at a time. After that it was over, we didn't make finals and so everyone was crying. We had to watch finals of course because we already paid for our tickets. Then, I didn't ride the bus home, I had a separate hotel room with my family.
Now, it's over and there's no telling what next year's show will entail. I can never really predict what shows we will do, especially in Winterguard when last year we were a ship and a carousel. I just hope that I'll always remember this season. It's been one of the best! But now I can finally relax at home! For a month at least before winter guard starts. Let's hope that next year we'll make it to finals and be one of the top bands in America. We are LC after all, the Tribe of Pride.
Sincerely,
Tinkerbell
Friday, November 11, 2011
11-11-11!
Hey everyone!
So today is 11-11-11 and I'm going to make a wish! Never has the Lake Central Tribe of Pride gotten to BOA finals and so all we do is sit in the stands watching the other bands that did. So my wish is that we do make it to finals because we got 3rd place at BOA regionals and this is BOA grand nationals so I'm just really hopeful that tomorrow is going to be our time to shine! Somewhere in Time has been one of the best shows I've known and I love how far we've gone. If we make it to finals I'm going to cry like crazy! But i'll try to calm myself down because then we have to put all of our makeup and hair and all that stuff ready. We left Wednesday night and then we performed while everyone was in school Thursday then came back in the afternoon only to leave again tonight! Silly right? Well, at least we get charter buses and stay in hotels this weekend. Since it's the last performance and there's so many amazing seniors that won't be coming back for Winter guard. I'm doing winter of course because that's what I've been looking forward to all these months! But how do you follow up a carousel and a ship? The world may never know.
Sincerely,
Tinkerbell
So today is 11-11-11 and I'm going to make a wish! Never has the Lake Central Tribe of Pride gotten to BOA finals and so all we do is sit in the stands watching the other bands that did. So my wish is that we do make it to finals because we got 3rd place at BOA regionals and this is BOA grand nationals so I'm just really hopeful that tomorrow is going to be our time to shine! Somewhere in Time has been one of the best shows I've known and I love how far we've gone. If we make it to finals I'm going to cry like crazy! But i'll try to calm myself down because then we have to put all of our makeup and hair and all that stuff ready. We left Wednesday night and then we performed while everyone was in school Thursday then came back in the afternoon only to leave again tonight! Silly right? Well, at least we get charter buses and stay in hotels this weekend. Since it's the last performance and there's so many amazing seniors that won't be coming back for Winter guard. I'm doing winter of course because that's what I've been looking forward to all these months! But how do you follow up a carousel and a ship? The world may never know.
Sincerely,
Tinkerbell
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
LC TOP got 3rd place!!!!
Hey everyone!
So, I'm extremely excited for the Lake Central T.O.P! Get got 3rd place at Bands of America Regional! I'm so incredibly excited because that's never happened before in all of LC History. Or at least, that I know of. But, of course, Avon won everything in our category and then Carmel was only a few points away from us. And by the way, just in case you didn't know, Carmel and Avon are THE teams of the state. They're usually always winning everything. We don't exactly know why because sometimes their shows confuse us all but they just always get 1st and 2nd place. Well, now Lake Central is a contender for at least 2nd place (I'm being optimistic) We've already beaten some of our greatest rivals like Marian Catholic and Lawrence Central ( haha LC) but anyways just wanted to post this because :D! GO LAKE CENTRAL TRIBE OF PRIDE!
Sincerly
Tinkerbell
So, I'm extremely excited for the Lake Central T.O.P! Get got 3rd place at Bands of America Regional! I'm so incredibly excited because that's never happened before in all of LC History. Or at least, that I know of. But, of course, Avon won everything in our category and then Carmel was only a few points away from us. And by the way, just in case you didn't know, Carmel and Avon are THE teams of the state. They're usually always winning everything. We don't exactly know why because sometimes their shows confuse us all but they just always get 1st and 2nd place. Well, now Lake Central is a contender for at least 2nd place (I'm being optimistic) We've already beaten some of our greatest rivals like Marian Catholic and Lawrence Central ( haha LC) but anyways just wanted to post this because :D! GO LAKE CENTRAL TRIBE OF PRIDE!
Sincerly
Tinkerbell
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