I would like to apologize for the lack of blogging lately! Although it's only been a little over a week, it feels like it's been much longer. As some of you know and others do not know, I returned home from NZ quite safely last week. I was home for a total of two days before I was gone again, this time with my lovely family at The 7th Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps. I re-joined with the corps after 5 months of being away. Let's just say that I knew about 50 counts (i.e. 20 seconds) of the over nine minute show. I had a lot of learning to do.
I rejoined 7th on Thursday June 30. It took me exactly 4 days to have the show learned. Granted I did not have it as learned as I usually would at this time (for example I don't know my entire dot book like I usually do), but I know the work and I can march the drill. That's pretty freaking good if I do say so myself. I even managed to perform in both of the weekend shows- the first in Lynn, MA where we scored 63.900 and the second in Bristol, RI where we scored a 64.500.
The main thing I want to say about this 5-day experience (we also did 3 parades on July 4th) is that I am so super proud of my corps for all of the hard work they put into the weekend and the entire season so far. This show is amazing! I also want to commend myself (I can do that since it's my blog) for learning an entire drum corps show in 4 days. It wasn't easy, but it was my goal and I am quite proud to have achieved it. Now my next goal is to have it learned like I would in a regular season. Hopefully that won't take too long either.
After finally returning home for a decent period of time (3.5 days) I will say that I am happy to be home. I do wish that home was a little closer to NZ than 9000 miles, say 0 miles, but it'll do for now (laugh mom, it's a joke). It's still hard to believe that I won't be rejoining all my sweet as new friends in the fall for another primo year at Massey, but alas it is not to be. I will instead have to concentrate on the important things, and the things that only matter for those crazy enough to consider it (aka drum corps).
Also in the near future I will have a beautiful niece to concentrate on. Hopefully she'll be here any day. I'd like to be home on the day, but at the same time, my sister-in-law is already 2cm dialated and I don't want to prolong the pain. Speaking of nieces and nephews, here is a lovely little video of my nephew that I took today at the beach. He appears to be a little upset at how sandy his feet are...
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