School Day Memory: Pink
Posted in Once I Was a Kansas Girl and tagged with Music, School on November 8, 2008Junior year of high school was my favorite year of high school. I had thought at the time that my senior year would be better, but senior year nothing went as I had planned.
A few things made junior year so special. First of all, our marching show theme that year was “Pink.” We performed songs such as “Pink Panther,” “Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White,” and “Pink Elephants on Parade” (why did Disney have a juvenile elephant get drunk?). No, I’m not kidding. It was actual an idea we thought of the year before on the bus to a drumline competition, and our band director went for it.
Part of the reason was that we didn’t have enough uniforms for all the students and weren’t going to get new uniforms for another year, so we improvised. The original idea was for all 200 hundred of us to wear pink panther costumes, but that had to be revised because our band director and his wife were receiving threats about it. Strangely, it became a subject of interest to the local top 40 station and that’s when it got out of hand with the threats.
Instead, we dressed in black pants, black tuxedo shirts, and hot pink cumberbunds. Not as original as the pink panther costumes, but I’m sure it was much lighter.
That year we got to go and perform at a band competition in Orlando. It was my first trip to Disneyworld which was a lot of fun. We chartered a plane out there, and spent all 4 days in the parks. The lines were great, too, because it was early November.
Other School Day Memories:
Kindergarten and 1st Grade: Kisses and Skunks
2nd and 3rd grade: Spitwads
3rd grade: Laundry Chutes and Floppy Disks
4th grade: Watching Whales
5th grade: Bad Grammar
7th Grade: Teacher Review
8th Grade: 100 Marble Pick Up
9th Grade: Science Nerd
10th Grade: Playing in the Rain
12th Grade: Sleepovers on a School Night
College Junior Year: Kidnapping and Frozen Custard
College Senior Year: Why Procrastination Might Not Be My Thing
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I’m thankful that it is the weekend and I get to rest, rejuvenate, do some school work, and spend time with my church family.
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November 8th, 2008 at 8:59 am
how fun! i have fond memories of my time in marching band! I loved it!
November 8th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Ah, marching band AND junior year — two of my favorite memories.
I’ve always wondered about that “Pink Elephants on Parade” as well. Though I was much older once I realized what was going on in that movie. Umm, just a tad racist.
November 8th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
What’s up with the Pink Panther hate? I was on Flag Corpse my Jr and Sr years. Actually I was the captain my Sr year. It was a lot of fun!