Cupertino Competition!

I was at some form of guard-related activity for 16 hours straight! Yay!

Ellen and I were getting ready (hair/makeup, etc.) from around 8 - 10 am, then from 10 - 2:30 we had practice. I seriously don't get why They make us practice so much on a field day. I mean, if we're all exhausted before we even get to the competition, how d the expect us to do well? Then for about half an hour, we got to chill and talk about our competition. (Someone goes, "What day is it?" and everyone else screams, "SHOW DAY!") Then at 3, we loaded all of our equipment and changed, and put on our hairpieces, eyelashes, and whatever else we needed to do. Then we boarded the bus at around 3:30.
The bus ride was actually pretty fun. Sara (from horn line), gave her iPod to some dude, who blasted music throughout the bus, like "Disturbia," and "Baby Got Back." We all sang along, and it's no wonder why almost no one in guard is in choir. It was really funny, because during this inappropriate song, Mr. Johnson (who was in our bus), was like, "Could you turn that off please?" Then they ignored him, so he was all, "COULD YOU TURN THAT OFF PLEASE? I don't like it." It was pretty interesting.
We spent like, the first 40 minutes at Cupertino HS running around, looking for a bathroom, then standing in line. Then we got ready, and lined up for our "entrance." I was fine until I started setting down my opener flag, then I was like, "Aw sh*t, it's actually show time..." I did pretty well though, except for one major part, and one minor part. The major part was when I as on the Side 1 one of the 45, and we were moving forward for 18. In the first 3 counts (the drop spin), my hand got tangled in the flag because there was a very unexpected wind, so I kept going until 11, when I really couldn't go anymore, and was out until 15... Then the other part was in the ballad, from counts 32-36 of the 40 count halt, we had this loop behind us, and I did a really wimpy one. XD All in all though, I felt I did pretty well for my first competition ever. I could have done better, but...
Mr. Johnson and our drum majors thought we did "great," according to them. Mr. J was like, this was WAY better than Fairfield! Apparently, the Fairfield comp last year sucked. Then guard went to Kelly/Kyle/Jay/Jesse, and Kelly was all like, "I'm not going to lie. That was awful. You were. You were awful." Then she went on to say how apparently we were cramming too much the last week, and how someone dropped a saber, and no one picked it up, so someone could have tripped over it. It was like, everyone was sort of happy after Mr. J's opinion, then we got smashed into the earth by Kelly. She said flag line held things together though, so that was good.
Then we went to go change, and the bus was hecka dark, so no one could really see anything. The uniforms are HELLA hard to change out of! o.o Then we ate (hamburgers, potato salad, regular salad, chips, cookies, water) and went to go see the rest of the performances. Cupertino was actually pretty good, they have a pretty big band. Their guard was mostly together, except for a few people here and there.
Foothill and Homestead got hecka awards! They both had like, six. And half of them were 1st or 2nd places. =O We got 2nd for Drumline (surprised EVERYONE), and 3rd for guard. W00t! Go us! I would've laughed if we got first, after Kelly's speech. (I would have LOVED to see her expression if that happened though...) Anyways, it was rather fun, but I so don't want to go to 2 more, especially in a row. Mostly because we only have 2 practices (excluding the one on show day) to learn ALL of the closer... DX
I completely crashed on the ride home. I remember Mckenzie, Colton, Alyssa, Lia, and me sharing some jokes and "creepy" stories, then eating pears and a bite of my sandwich, then I fell asleep and Christine woke me up when we got back. XD It took us a few minutes to put our uniform back, but there was this HUGE line for the band people... I felt kind of sorry for them. I got home at 12:17, took a bath (almost fell asleep in the tub, too XD), ate some food, then went to bed. I was sooo tired, I changed my status on Facebook, and was just like... you know what... I'm posting in my blog tomorrow. XP

Anyways, first comp was pretty fun, and I can and can't wait for the one next week! Yay! =D