I haven’t been on Tumblr in a long time but I think I need to put my life somewhere and I believe this is the place.

So I really enjoy playing music. This joy for playing music came, I think, around the time I started doing marching band after the sixth grade. Before then it was just okay. After that it has just gone up hill, and though marching band places me towards the bottom of the high school food chain, I don’t care because it’s been such a big part of my life for so long and I take a great deal of pleasure in it. When I started high school our band, we fell somewhere between good and bad. We kept getting mediocre scores at marching festivals and competitions, though, so last year we worked so hard to get a good score and we did. We went from a two band (a two being bad) to a one band (a one being good). The next step, and the final step for me, was to not only be a one band, but to be one of the best bands in the state. This weekend our band went to state marching festival, the more important marching band festival of the year, and we got a one, but we also got the second most awards out of any band there. Which, in some ways, gives us a title of second best band in the state. It’s not first, but I’ll take it.

The gist of this isn’t that I love marching band or anything like that really. The gist is that I feel like this is what my life has been since the sixth grade and it has finally paid off because we are so successful and I am so proud I could vomit.

It’s just been a really, really good year so far.

Also I’m passing AP English with an A and I should mention that now because in a few months that will certainly not be the case.