On The Road Again Poem

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The eighth and final song on the soundtrack of my life is “On the Road Again” by Willie Nelson and it is by far the longest. I chose this song to represent the Licking Valley Marching Panther’s trip to Monroeville Pennsylvania for Bands of America competition, because it was quite the adventure. The day started out when I woke up at 5:30 in the morning and started getting ready. I had to be at the school by 7 and I knew that there was a huge possibility that I would be back until 3:00 am the next day. We got on the busses and left by 8:00 and set off for the long day ahead of us. We watched “Pitch Perfect” and sang along to every song because we’re music kids, and then turned on “Toy Story” because we are all children at heart. We got to the competition and started unloading the trailer and getting dressed. We then proceeded to warm ups. Next we got a …show more content…

I awoke to a stopped bus that wreaked of smoke. After a minute I realized that we were in the white lines between the highway and an exit in west virginia. Then I heard someone say “I think the bus is on fire”. My first thought was “why are we still on here” and my second thought was “where are my pretzels”. We evacuated the bus, (I was smart enough to grab a blanket but I couldn’t find my pretzels) then proceeded to stand on the side of the road for quite some time while we waited for them to figure out what was up and why it was smoking. Next we sat on the bus for an hour waiting for the boys to get off of their bus at a rest stop so that the bus could come get us. Then we drove to the rest stop and on the way, the light on that bus went out. So we all waited at this rest stop for a new bus to come. This place was cold! People were using maps as blankets so when I got there I had to fight for mine. I ended up having half of it taken up by a cranky and cold dean who wanted to walk around with the blanket and brag to

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