Friday, February 6, 2009

The Band Carnival

The Band Carnival is always the stupidest thing in the world. It will be a complete waste of my time tomorrow. I have to spend close to six hours at Kennedy, on a saturday, preforming twice and working at a game station once. My parents are also making me help tear down, which means I have to wait until almost ten to go home. Then I have one of my parents stupid social parties with the church to go to, which means I won't get home until almost two in the mornings, looks like it's gonna be another weekend of little to no sleep.
We host the band carnival every year usually just to earn some money for the band, but from all the money the volunteers donate towards the band carnival, we would probably make more if we just had people donate money and never even had the carnival at all. On top of that it's really stressful and harsh on all of the kids that have to participate.
Fleer and Bird make us work our butts off, by going out and begging business for prizes for the drawings and I mean literally begging because most of them turn us down and we have to guilt them into giving us prizes. The reason we try so hard is because they require us to bring in some sort of a prize or else they will drop us a letter grade which totally not fair. I however do not care at all because I am taking band pass fail in order to boost my gpa because I'm taking mostly ap classes and band isn't ap at all so there's a big difference between 4 point and 5 point scales.
Then during the band concert we have to work stations and deal with kids who whine because they didn't get a prize, aww how sad, not!
We have to bring in a liter of pop too, something that I won't have to do either because I really don't care.
I also learned from the last two years to sign up really early for the jobs. This year I got a really easy one, Go Fish, the kids always win so you don't have to deal with them whining.
Even though I didn't really do anything tomorrow is still gonna suck, six hours is way to long to be at a concert.

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