For anyone that didn't already know, I've finally started playing trombone again. There's been a dry spell since the end of my high school junior year (May of 2006) but now that I'm a senior and missing the band experience more and more I've joined UTD's Pep Band.
The band's only 1 year old this year, so I just missed being a charter member...but the whole group already feels like an extended family and I'm loving the feeling of being an active part of the production of music again.
After 3 classes (we scheduled a bonus period before school started for the semester) and a short rehearsal, we played at this year's freshman convocation to welcome all of the new incoming freshman to campus. It turns out they're an extremely smart group - UTD honestly believes this class to have the highest average SAT score in Texas public school history - and there are a ton of them...it's UTD's biggest-ever class weighing in at 17,500 students.
Anyway, the whole production went really well, and all of the band geeks were given free frisbies, shirts, and glow sticks! At the carnival after the indoor part, there was a ton of free food and games followed by a finale fireworks show LIGHTYEARS better than the one my city put on this last Independence Day.
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| My point of view during the convocation |
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| About 1/4 of the carnival afterwards (most of the people look pretty small, too, because it's a panorama) |
After 3 classes (we scheduled a bonus period before school started for the semester) and a short rehearsal, we played at this year's freshman convocation to welcome all of the new incoming freshman to campus. It turns out they're an extremely smart group - UTD honestly believes this class to have the highest average SAT score in Texas public school history - and there are a ton of them...it's UTD's biggest-ever class weighing in at 17,500 students.
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