Leadership Seminars

So last night was our second night of leadership seminars for marching band, they are SO much fun!! I've been learning SO much and having such a great time with everyone...it's been AWESOM.

Last night we did an activity where we each took turns leading the rest of the group. We headed down to the lot (then Mr. O. had us run all the way back up the hill to the band room and sprint back down again, that was kinda fun actually), and set up a 3 x 3 block. Then there was like 3 people just sitting to the side, observing and taking notes, and then there was the leader. Each leader got a set of about 5 directions that they had to have their group. For example, one set could be: BW4, FW6, LF, FW8, halt. That would actually be one of the easier ones. And the leader got 4 minutes to teach the entire group the set. It was a lot of fun!! I marched in the block for awhile (I didn't really want to volunteer, I still haven't completely gotten my voice back and I'll admit, I was NERVOUS), and then Mr. O. had the new peeps go. It was actually kinda fun to lead, stressful trying to remember all those tips that he had given previous people and having to teach in a time constraint, but still, it was fun, I had a great time with it.

Then we did another trust activity, we had to pair up with a partner, I went with Becca, and one of us had to be blindfolded, and the other person had the job of leading their partner (without touching them) to discover things that they wouldn't notice normally, like with sight. So Becca was blindfolded, and I took her around to different objects just to feel the textures. She felt two different kinds of mulches and just by touching she could figure out which one was newer. And then I had her measure the bench (oh, we were outside BTW) with her hands and see what the width and depth was. Then we had a run-in with another group. Havard was leading and Ewik was blindfolded. So I was like, "Ok, Becca, you're gonna run into someone, who is it??" So they hugged each other and she reached up and felt his hair (which is very spiky) and she's like, "Ewik!!!!!" It was funny.

Then we switched partners and I was with Sam. She had me take my shoes off and then we just walked around, experiencing the different textures that I would NEVER have noticed with my shoes on. It was SO cool!! And it was also kinda fun to completely trust her, I know I didn't have to worry that she would let me run into something, so I just trusted. And it was a REALLY neat experience.

We also got the forms last night to fill out, saying why we want to be a student leader and all that good stuff. I really wanted to hand it in first thing this morning, but last night I was talking to people and then I realized that I wanted to do a really great job and not rush it, so I'll hand it in tomorrow.

School time!!