Pre-MPA Speech

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Twas the night before Pre-MPA and all through the band room the band beaners scurried. We were filled with joy. We were filled with excitement. Pre-MPA was coming and we were ready. Pre-MPA is basically a show off event for all high school band members. Usually only the top ensembles attend. It is on rarity that you see a symphonic and a concert band from one school perform at Pre-MPA. To continue, we were on our way to FIU and of course we were intimidated by the band kids of the rich schools. To us they were: Gulf Coast High school, Barron High School, and Naples High School. They had the chance to wear all black, usually all conservative clothing. We wore our marching band uniforms. How intimidating is that? *Microphone screeches* “Welcome to the FIU invitational of the Pre-MPA performance. Today your judges are Matthew Maxwell, Sarah Roberts, and Tim Robinson.” The whole crowd of band students and band directors clap. But lucky for my school these judges had already seen our whole set of performances. I know, lucky …show more content…

I was dying. Did I mention that I actually cried? It didn’t help, it actually made it worse. To do this day I am in awe of how I held it for so long. Suddenly the bus driver leaves the high way. At that moment my heart starts pumping full of excitement. My bladder was literally about to explode. We reach the front gate to enter the school. And guess what? The front gate was locked. Therefore my band director didn’t have a key to the front gate. He only had a key to the back. Thus making us all go around to the other side of the world to get inside. At this point I just had given up on life. I remember saying to myself, “I’m going to die having to pee.” We finally reach the other side of the gate. My band director opens the gate. So we wait for him to slowly walk up to the bus. We wait for the bus driver to slowly close the door. Also we wait for him to slowly start the bus

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