BitterSweet
As an ageout, this past weekend was my last camp ever with the Crossmen Drum and Bugle Corps. While I still have the summer to look forward to, there won’t be anymore just-the-weekend activities for me.
Camp started at 8pm with a corps meeting on Friday night. From there, members split up into their respective sections and did warm ups and sectionals for two and a half hours until snack time. After snack, it was lights out and an early wake up for the morning. 7:30am was wake up for breakfast. After an hour of that, the percussion and hornline members met outside on the track for a 25 minute run.
After this very boring form of exercise, we finished the morning block learning drill for our 2013 opener. This was a very productive process and continued on all the way through the afternoon block after lunch. Finally, after 8 hours of learning drill and movements, an hour and a half dinner break came, to eat and have a corps meeting to talk about move ins. After the break, we continued on with inside reherasal working on music within our sections and then putting it all together with the hornline.
It was a very long day, but soon, snack and shower time came and we couldn’t be more ready to get to bed.
Sunday morning was an even earlier start as the alarm music went off at 7am. We all went to stretch and warm up outside for an hour. Then, we warmed up on our horns and all went to full ensemble with the entire corps to finish out our weekend of rehearsal.
The weekend went by incredibly fast and I cannot believe that in three weeks, we will be moving into Blossom Athletic Center for all-days for almost a month of training. Time flies and I cannot wait to get this show on the road!
Crossmen Drum and Bugle Corps 