Andi

Today was my first official performance as a member of the Hawkeye Marching Band! Football kicked off the season with a game against Tennessee Tech. We all know it was going to rain at the game but we didn’t expect THAT much rain! All the band members had empty cups for water, and with the rain pouring so hard it refilled all of our cups! The rain just wouldn’t stop, and then out of nowhere it decided to let up. So we all ripped off our ponchos and put on our baseball hats. But only a few minutes later the pouring rain returned! We all squealed and grabbed our ponchos! The drumline was stuck in its own little lake at the very bottom of the bleachers! Then lightening was sighted.

That was our cue to head to the tunnel. Over 250 of us crammed into a little tunnel? Not so fun….or was it? Iowa football was DOMINATING! The game was just a slaughter, so we were very quickly losing interest. The tunnel ended up to be quite the blast. We had a group ‘sing-a-long’. We all sang out to songs like “Bohemian Rhapsody” “Spongebob Squarepants” “I Want it That Way – by the Backstreet Boys”, and you can’t forget all those Disney favorites! We had a blast, even though we were crammed into a tunnel for about an hour!

We eventually “swarmed” out of the tunnel, mimicking the football team, and headed back to our seats in the bleachers. It rained on and off for the rest of the game, but nothing was like the first 2 quarters, where it rained so hard the water was literally rushing down the stands!

I’ll never forget my first game as a member of the Hawkeye Marching Band!

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