The Rivalry between Madison and Jerfferson.

The first time we marched, we just barley finished our drill. The staff had little confidence that we would get a good placement, and thought it would be just a good experience for next year. We had home advantage and ended up doing great. Jefferson was mad when they found out we had a higher score then them. They have had a program for thirty years and we just started. Yet, our show scored more points. Now, I have seen only parts of their show, and they do have moments. But I honestly think our show gets the audience involved more. That is the point of marching band, to get the audience to be able to connect to the music. They practice as hard as we did for the next competition. But we also focused and we were excited to be able to have a bigger goal, which was to get through the next competition. Slowly, we were climbing the ranks. I bet it was frustrating to them to have always been at the top and this marching band comes out of no where and beats them every time, and with only tenths of a point. It was more frustrating to me when they were able to go to ACCs. But it didn't matter anyway since we came into second and they came a little below us. But I think it is kinda cool to have a rivalry. It make us just worker that much harder to reach our goal.

MY LITTLE BAND THAT COULD, DID At ACCS!

     Marching Band was the most irritating thing on the planet. The cold late practices, the annoying people the would not stop talking. People not showing up to practice and delaying our progress... Those frustrations are 10x as much because every depends on each other. But it also the most rewarding and was well worth it when we went to ACCS. We played our show at a homecoming game and stopped all people in the stands and they watched in awe. Then he hopped on a bus and cruised to Hersey Park. I quickly got into the bed, and was nervous the whole time. Waking up, I wasn't quite sure if this was really happening. When I was at the parking lot, I wasn't sure if this was real. When I was on the football field.... I knew this real, but also knew the feeling wasn't going to go away. But it was amazing how loud everyone cheered for us at the end.

The nerves were gone and I was just happy. When awards we being given out... I was nervous as hell. I wanted to cling to the closest person next to me and hold on tight. There were 13 bands, and they were being announced off. I prayed each time "not us, not us." As the announcer said "and 10th place goes to.." "and 8th goes to..." Then what scary is that our band is Madison. I heard at one point "and ___ place goes to... Mmmm" "oh no!" and then it was some other school and everyone was relieved. We beat Jefferson again, and that was cool. I know they worked hard, but so did we. In the end, ours paid off. We got 2nd place.

 I was happy with that. Brick something got 1st. They beat us by a couple of points so I was okay with that. But I was even amaze by our performance. I am very critical with my work, so when others my seem its great, I would see it as okay. But I thought it was good, and worthy of 2nd place. Next year though, they better watch out. We will put them in their place, because we are no longer a little band that could. No, we have made a name for ourselves. We went to ACCS 1st in Madison history, and I am proud to be apart of it, and our unsupported administration should realize that and give us the same status that sports team gets.