The staff really outdid themselves when it was wakeup time. The boys were awoken by Sleggers and Greg doing the can-can, and the girls got Katrina, Nat, Belinda and Zoe singing a cannibalised version of God Morning Baltimore. At 0530.
It was time to pack the bus and get on to our next performance destination. Young was great for numerous reasons. First up, they were rather keen. Then there was the fact that they all seemed to be good at music. There was the fact that their school hall was a converted courthouse. And then there was Harleigh, getting all the ladies. So in order to harness his powers for good, not evil, he's using his facebook to get them to join the band.
Then we did some mainies in Young.
Booriwa was easily the most thrilled to see us. Their school sign read 'Welcome Marching Band To The Bush'. The entire school and what seemed to be a decent proportion of the town turned out to watch.
At the end of the concert, there was a massive queue of little kiddies waiting to try on a sousaphone. Not to mention a decent number of MMB kids. It was then time to get changed and go for a walk around Boorowa. That's right - we did some mainies. And then marched back, Aww yeah.
Once back at BCS, we were shown our rooms, had dinner provided by the P&C, and then set in for a massive Priest of the Parish sesh (which some of the staff seeled remarkably invested in), precursed by Angie, Kathryn, Christine, Naomi and myself singing some Handel, albeit not in pyjamas.
As it turned out, Bathurst High were raher unaware of the fact that we were coming, so plans changed and we were to be heading off to Cowra HS, and then to Kelso, to which the Bathurst concert band kids were to be bussed.
There was also the thoroughly entertaining instance of Sleggers miming how one would go through the team showers in slow motion. Then as the girls had showers, the boys played some shirts v. skins basketball, just to compound the man stench which was already beginning to permeate about the hall.
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