Band Party

Every year the band program has a party, it’s usually in the winter when not very much stuff is going on. It usually lasts a couple hours and we basically roam the whole school. From the band room to the gym.

Usually in the gym there is dodge ball, soccer ball, and basketball, on one side of the band room there is usually video game counsels, while on the other side there is mainly board games, such as chess and cards, sometimes there is even a movie playing. Then in the hallway on tables there is food galore. There is always chips and cookies and pop, sometimes even huge bags of candy. And with so many of us, a lot of it gets eaten.

Towards the end of the night we all gather in the band room to find teams for our game of school-wide hide- and- seek. That’s always fun but it’s really hard because there are so many of us and only one team to find everyone. There are boundaries to this though. You can’t go down by the gym and you can’t go past the band hall.

Many people hide in the hallways and doorways up and down stairs. Even under the back stair case. Since all the lights are off in the hallways it makes it even harder to find people. Sometimes the team of seekers end up using flashlights on their phone so people don’t jump out at them.

The band party is our way of celebrating the marching band season and a way of bonding for all of us, since many of us get separated from our friends during the split in the bands.