Ever since freshman year, watching the seniors do airbands was my favorite event that north held. The moment I saw Tyson Amoo lifted up into the air as a freshman, I knew it was what I wanted to participate in at north.

I came home and vividly remember watching airband videos from previous years because it was so cool to see. I couldnt wrap my head around the fact that it was all student choreographed. When my sister did it, I remember helping her and watching her group practice because I was so excited to see it. Unfortunately with covid she never got the chance to perform it and we were stuck with 100 plain white shirts in our basement. I felt so bad for her because that has been a goal of mine to participate, and my sister did not get the chance to. 

Moving to last year and airband being outside, I knew it was exactly what I wanted to take part in. December of 2021 came around and my friend sent out a message about how she wanted to do it to me, I agreed and we started a group chat. Immediately, we got our group together in January and brainstormed so much. We ended up procrastinating and waited a few weeks to meet and knew we had to get our stuff together. 

I don’t think I have stressed more about an after-school activity in my life. I am currently freaking out about performing today but for some reason, I keep inviting people to come. Although I am extremely excited, I am kind of glad it is about to be over. The amount of time and commitment there is for this is absurd. First, meeting with your group and making sure everyone has a part, can learn dance moves, and is even just willing to participate and not slack off is exhausting already! And the day of tryouts we thought was really good, but it ended up just not being at all. We included and changed so much since our tryout, that now it just is so much better. Except I did just learn a dance about a week ago and it is probably one of the hardest dances I’ve ever had to do, but hopefully it is enough and all goes well. 

But in general, I just wanted to write this blog in order to hopefully make myself calm down and get all my thoughts out, but my stomach is in knots at the moment every time I think about it…