Thank you so much!! I loved your show! The standing ovation that you're band gave us really lifted up some spirits. People were going around after we performed, "ALEDO stood up for us!!" "Did you see who gave us a standing ovation?? ALEDO!!" "I can't believe Aledo did that before they even went!". It definitely earned a lot of respect for you guys here!
It's like that other person said, (sorry don't have a username!) we have friendly competitions within our area that really motivate us to work hard. Wakeland is definitely our biggest rival. We've been kind of back and forth but this year we got em' haha so far, but I like to refer to them as our "sister school" and I enjoy putting up a little friendly competition and seeing them go to state along with us, but when we get there, we're ready to kick some serious butt =) We just have passion I guess is what you could say...? A lot of other people are also saying its our new band director. It's my freshman year so I didn't have Mr. Linely, but people are saying that Mr. Centura (new bd) is really having a huge impact. He came from Newman Smith. I don't have another to compare him to, but I really like him!
Good luck to you all at state!! =D