School and marching band

Hey!

Today I'll write about my first experiences in school and in the marching band.
In the week before school starts I went to school to find and meet the band director to ask him if I can borrow a trombone at school. I only found his assistent, but he invited me to come to the marching band rehearsal in the afternoon. So I came back later.
When I arrived in the band hall (the room where we usually practice our music), there were already around 20 boys and girls talking to each other and waiting for the band director. I met two very nice girls who introduced me to some other students. Finally the band director arrived and I introduced myself to him. He was very nice and asked one student to give me a trombone. So I was ready to start!

We also had rehearsals at Tuesday and Wednesday in that week. First we usually practice our music and then we go outside  with our instruments to march. That was a totally new experience for me but I like to try something new and marching is really fun although it can be very very hot outside!

After being three days in the marching band, Thursday was our first performance. Therefor we had to wear kaki shorts and we got a new band shirt for this year. This is our "summer uniform", because it's too hot ouside to war the regular long uniform. We played in a large hall in school for some parents. In front of us, girls with huge flags showed their performance to our music.

After our first marching band performance

I spend the weekend with our family-friends and the other german exchange student in their country house, near Brenham. It was a great time there, relaxing in the pool and enjoying calmness of that place!
Sunday we ate in a german restaurant in a very small town (like Uttum for everyone who knows it). But anyway they had two restaurant and a high school!

The house near Brenham

Monday did school start. Now the time passes very fast! The first three days every student had to go to to his/her homeroom in the morning. Then we have to follow our regular schedule. School starts at 7:40 am and ends at 3:15 pm, but I have marching band rehearsal till 5:30. That is a long day and sometimes I have to do homework at home too.
After the first days I was always very tired when I came home, but it gets better every day.
Bellaire High School is a very large school with more than 3000 students. So in the five minutes between two classes all the long hallways are very crowded and it can be confusing and hard to find the next room!

I think the classes aren't very difficult compared to german ones, but they are in english, so I don't understand everything yet. Also all the teachers and students are new for me and I meet new students every day, but everyone I talked to was very nice!

I still love marching band, because I already know many students there and I enjoy playing with them (when I arrived at school at Monday, there were so many students everywhere and I was very happy when I saw some band-students I had seen before!). Tomorrow is the first football game, and we're going to play there. I'm very excited and I think it will be very fun!!!

I hope I have time to write about the game soon,
bye for now!