Too Close to the End

Last night was our Band Banquet, and it was my last one : ( I'm really going to miss this band!!!

Everything looked great (it was held at the Holiday Inn) and the slide show was really nice. Best picture had to be the one of Walker's nose. But all of them were great. The food was pretty good too. The highlight of the night (besides the slide show) is always the band officer awards. Walker got one for being the most "nosy" (he managed to hurt his nose at a competition....watch out for Frisbees) and Phil got one for being the biggest bully (he was the one who hurt Walker's nose) and he got a Frisbee. Jenna got the "always on time award" because she was always late for jazz band, except on the day we had a snow day and actually showed up on time. So she got a power ranger watch. Keister got one for always being on the field first and always being quiet. I got "The Glue Award" for keeping the band together through all the mess we've experienced, and it was a bottle of Tacky Glue (endless jokes right there). That was the best award I received (even counting Senior Award Night0 and I loved it. The students who participated in All-County, Area All-State and All-State also got awards. I received the New York State Field Band Conference Award. Then there was the senior recognition ceremony. We received our graduation cords and our old band folders that had our names still on them as they put up baby pictures (which were really cute). It was a great night, and I had a lot of fun. At the same time, it made me a little sad because I really don't want to leave this band since it's become like a family to me. A very messed up, dysfunctional family, but still a family.

All these end of senior year things seem so surreal. I think part of that is because I have so many friends who are juniors. And I really don't want to leave them, and it's really hard to face the fact that these people who I've gotten to know so well over the past four years I will probably never see again. They have been my support system. They keep me entertained, teach me things I never knew, make me laugh when all I want to do is cry, give me a shoulder to cry on when I really do have to cry, listen to all my venting and rants about every topic from A to Z, put up with and - in some cases- actually understand by band geekness, and always let me pick on them in the most loving sense (once again, a dysfunctional family). My friends are the most amazing people in the world, I love each one of them, and I will miss every single one of them.