• tab tab We marched onto the feild, leading off of the track and onto the grassy center of the stadium. I stood on the right side of the feild (audiance veiw) smack dab in the middle where the whole community would be watching their children walk down the white carpet to the stage right up front.
    tab tab We obeyed as our conductor started the song. By the end of this event, we would be sick of this tune. We will be standing here for about 15 minutes.
    tab tab That night, the moon was full up ahead and a nice breeze blew, almost blowing down our stands and whiping away our music. We stood, unwavering, for about ten minutes in. I have no idea how many minutes in it was, but around sometime between the first blast of fireworks, I started to feel queezy. This can't be happening, I thought. Two more people walked by and suddenly my hearing reduced and my vision started to blur.
    tab tab Another two couples passed and I started to stagger back and forth. A colorgaurd member in front of me noticed what was happening and did nothing to help, all she did was just stand and watch. I started to rock back and forth, but I still tried to play like nothing was happening.
    tab tab Not here, not now, not on this feild.I forced myself to stand strait.

    tab tab Next I knew, I felt myself asleep and I wondered where I was. Where am I? What am I doing. . .What was I doing? Suddenly it all came back to me and I was awake back in the stadium once more. I threw my hand out, next to my head and I grabbed my trumpet and forced myself up and tried to play like nothing happened again.
    tab tab If it weren't for the co-conductor, I would have had a trumpet impaled in my teeth. He caught me and next I woke up, I was being dragged off the feild for the whole community to see. I passed out twice more and finally woke up dazed and looking at the school principal.
    tab tab They took my bood pressure and heart rate again and again and even proposed that I go to the hospitle. I said no and slowly stood up with some help of the principle.

    tab tab After the halftime show that we preformed and I passed out, we went back up into the stands and the band (excluding me) played sometunes. I soon learned that we were to play our show after the football game. I also learned that my mom came down to the stadium.
    tab tab Fourth quarter, my mom and I sat waiting for the game to end. We were argueing if I could play after the game or not. It wasn't looking so hot. "But mom! You always said to fulfill my commitment on somthing," I had said, "well this is me doing just that." Stubbornly, I picked up my trumpet and my helmet and fell in with the line of the other trumpets as we marched onto the feild for the postgame show.

    tab tab In the end it was a terrible performance that night, but afterall I did lose a lot of strength when I bit the dirt (and quite literally might I add). One thing was to be learned from this experiance and that was: There is nothing I can't do now that I was embarrased in from of the whole community, so what could be more embarrasing?