Marching Band

Yesterday was the first football game of the season, and the first time I took to the field with the Marching Band. We rehearsed for about half an hour at the smaller field before taking a bus to a street near the stadium.

The uniforms are huge. We wear big jackets with kind of overall pants on underneath, white gloves, black shoes with these things called spats over them, white things that cover your shoelaces, a cape attached to the right shoulder of the jacket and a hat with a big white feather in it. I felt akward and uncomfortable in it, I felt like I could hardly move let alone march.

We marched down the road past heaps of people to the back of the stadium, stopping to play at various points along the way. We waited in two of the tunnels under the stands to go out onto the field. I have never been in front of so many people at once! I was concentrating on making sure I knew where to go that I hardly played a note for the whole thing. I almost missed one step off, but I am pretty sure I did a good job considering that I came into things late - they had a two week camp to learn everything before I got there - and that I am not really experienced with marching to this degree.

As I walked out into the staduim I thought, "what is an Aussie girl like me doing here?"

I am looking forward now to the next few weeks as I will learn the next show with everyone else and will feel a little less clueless.