Day of Percussion Quotes

This is a collection of quotes that I found funny or entertaining at Day of Percussion on Saturday:

Day of Percussion is a competition of the
 art os hitting things with other things
(Image courtesy of This World Music)

• "oooo feeling savage I see"
• "I would make a lot of money if I was a stripper right now"
• "We could have our own stick shopping reality TV show"
• "You're just sitting all alone in your seat corner, how sad"
• "Do you think they would let me stick my pants under the slurpee machine"
• "He just ate a double cheeseburger and a foot-long sandwich and IM FAT???"
• "I'm gonna keep my mallets in my sleeve and have them slide down into my hands if I break one again"
• "awww you went stick shopping without me??"
• "This would be a lot more entertaining if the old ladies were high"
• "No, I get your offensive joke but it's just annoying as frick"
• "MORE TIMPANI"
• "Mr. Hughes is more of a vanilla guy"  "But it's chocolate man"
• "The only person who knows you messed up was me and maybe the judge but hey what does the judge matter"
• "He's probably sleeping with that award"
• "Keep on drummin lil' kiddo"
• "Did you really sneak a dog into the advanced ensemble room?!"
• "I haven't worn shoes all day but the judges haven't said anything about it so..."
• "Do you think I could burn an ant with this drumhead?"
• "I'm slowly deteriorating"
• "How did we win 3rd? We sucked!"
• "I found this penny on the floor of IN-N-OUT"
• "He ran across the road and STILL went back for the Powerade"
• "I'm super hyped about HYPE"
• "Violently flirting"
• "My hood's basically a food pouch of gold fish"
• "HE SNEEZED 10 TIMES"
• "He looks like he's going to pee"
• "His hair is more luxurious than mine"
• "I'm from Percussion City High.. I . I mean Park City High Percussion"
• "I was digging the accidental bells solo before you guys even started"
• "LOOK IT'S BILLY ROSS"  "Wasn't it Bob Ross?"  "LOOK IT'S BOB ROSS"
• "Dat stick twirl doh"
• "MidowWaker"
• "Are you sure the Marimba can't go ANY lower??"  "JUST THINK TALL"
• "I will rip that cardigan off you"
• "Really the Mustard one??"
• "You look like a pilgrim"
• "HEY are you ALL trying to hook up with her?"
• "Sing your parts to warm-up" *begins to intensely beatbox the snare box part*
• "Is hitting a wooden bowl even percussion"
• "The old white ladies should give the african tribe their traditional song back"
• "I went to the bathroom and it's still his Marimba solo?"
• "MY EARS WILL BURST AND I'LL BE DEAF"
• "Wowzr"
• "Do you think they'll crash if I shine this at them?" "It's a parked bus so no"
• "Rager at percussion"
• "Why aren't you wearing the squad shirt?"
• "I can feel god guiding me" "Oh sorry that's just me"
• "What satanic sound was that?" "My mating call"
• "I love to eat cac?"
• "Three-second rule!!!" "Dude, we're in high school"

I Have a Slight Problem

I am not very good with words. Which is ironic because I am currently taking honors english. I feel as though I have these amazing ideas and they could actually be put to good use but I just cannot for the life of me make them sound like a poetic and inspiring master piece. I mean how hard could it be to turn 26 letters of the alphabet into something good.

It makes it really hard to write essays. On our last essay one of the topics was depression and suicide. I saw many of my peers writing these amazing and moving essays. They flowed well and god was I jealous. Mine was just kind of like the sea on a windy day, a choppy mess. 

This a pretty good representation of how my essay went

(Image courtesy of Total Body Workout) 

I don't quite know why it is so hard for me to formulate these ideas in to words. As I'm writing this I have deleted and rewritten so many sentences but they just never come out like I want them to. I find it difficult to have conversations about school because they usually go something like this:

Me: "So what did you say for number 7?"

Other Student: "I said the Mitochondria is *imagine a really long and beautiful description of what the mitochondria is or look at the definition here*. What about you?"

Me: "Uhhhhmmm. I said its the powerhouse of the cell"

I pray that one day I will wake up and I will be able to write an amazing piece of literature that will make someone, out there, feel something other than very uncomfortable. Oh whale ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maybe I should practice more. Everyone says practice makes perfect. The only problem is that I am extremely lazy and I have a feeling that I will never practice writing. If I do I'll keep you all updated on how it goes. 

If you have anything that will help me please let me known and there is a very slight possibility that I will look at it. Ta ta 4 now

School Sucks (Rant Wednesday)

I  have decided to start a Rant Wednesday to keep my ranting to a minimum. If I didn't my entire blog would just be random rants from some me and I'm sure nobody would want that. So I'm going to start doing these every Wednesday I feel like I have something to rant about (which could be a lot).

There are too many people that are stressed about grades
(Image courtesy of Raider Beat)

Todays topic is school. I hate school with a passion and I can't wait to be done with it forever. Many people hate school and I understand why so for those of you that like it let me elaborate on why I personally hate it.

First of all, you need to understand that I love learning. I like educating myself on things that I don't know much about. Some of you may ask, "Hannah, how can you love learning but hate school?" Well, my answer to that is I hate being graded on my learning. At this point school seems to be based around how well the student's memorization is and not their understanding of the topic. I'm sick of being graded on how well I can memorize equations and not why we need the equation. There are too many times where I am just memorizing and not understanding.

School is so miserable for people with parents that are really over obsessive. There have been countless times that I have wanted some accident like my leg breaking or literally anything else so I don't have to go home and face my parents as they lecture me on my "bad" grades. It's also very annoying when someone who thinks that they got a bad grade on an assignment and then another person who got a worse grade says stop complaining like stfu, you don't know the kind of pressure some people are under and how crazy their parents are.


I just want to say that there is so much wrong with the education system and that means there will probably be more than one post on this topic. Let's just say I am very much a believer that the education has moved away from what it was originally created for in the first place. Imma just leave you with this and I hope that you can see where I'm coming from.

High School Volleyball is Over :(

I am sad to say that high school volleyball has come to a close. It was definitely one of the best seasons of my life. I had the most amazing time an d i met so many new and amazing people over the season. I also had the chance to get to know some of the girls that I have known for a long time so much better.

My favorite memory is the bus rides. We had some deep conversations on those hour plus bus rides. My favorite time was when we went all the way out to Union high school and we had to stop in Duchesne for lunch. Some of the other girls and I thought it would be a good idea to walk 3/4 miles to try and make it to the Subway at the beginning of the town. We were told to be back on the bus by 2:10 and we had left at 1:45. We ended up running the 1 1/2 miles there and back only to be stopped by our coach who told us that we weren't leaving until 2:30.

We had the most amazing bus rides and it was some of the best bonding times we had as teammates.

Grace fell asleep an Kinley decided to
snuggle up

I learned so much from this season and I have gotten some of the best advice from the older girls. The best advice I got was after one of the bus rides there were a few of the seniors and maybe three of us freshmen. We were sitting on the benches outside of the high school while we were waiting for our parents. I can't remember exactly how the topic got brought up but Carleigh, one of the seniors, said, "Don't waste your high school years on people who don't aren't worth your effort. I spent too long on boys and friends and it wasn't worth it." That really opened my eyes on some of my friends that I was wasting my time trying to impress and I am so happy that have cut them out of my life.

I also loved having team dinners. They were after practice and the entire program would go out into the cafeteria and eat food that some of the parents had brought in. We would all go and get plates with mountains of food piled on. We had so much fun playing the cup game and just talking.

I am so happy that I got to play volleyball with the people I did this year and I can't wait until next year when I'm not a freshman. I can't wait until the next season but until then I'll be playing club so stay tuned for stories from that.