Week 13 Post

Finding the most significant experience I've ever had at my fieldsite was a difficult job. There's so much I've learned from so many of the times I've been around these people. I suppose the one I find the most significant was when I was standing outside the band room with several other band members, and one of them found out that I was in Lawrence Central's marching band. He immediately asked if I was in LaRosa. I told him that not only had I been in LaRosa, but that I had the oboe solo at the beginning of the show. He stared at me with disbelief and then began to grab every band person who walked by, telling them excitedly that I was the oboe soloist in LaRosa. Every person he grabbed shook my hand congratulating me! They all discussed LaRosa with me like I was some celebrity in a movie! I knew my high school marching band was one of the best, but finding out that people from even the most remote schools knew everything about us was unbelievable! Not only did these people know all about LaRosa (that was the show my band won Grand Nationals with), but they knew almost everything about every other show LC had done within the last 5-7 years! To find out how important following a high school band was to them was almost unexpected to me. My band had always been popular in the high school band world, but to find out that didn't end with college just amazed me.