New Stuff

I know we're not on the trip anymore but there are just a few things I wanted to share.

Tomorrow (Wednesday) Channel 4 is doing a followup story on our trip. They're coming to concert band to ask kids about the trip and everything. Make sure you wear your trip shirts and check that out.

A final total on everything we raised.
We raised $21,000 in cash and instruments for Lusher. They said they're going to use the things we donated to start a concert band program in the middle school. How cool is that? A big hey to all the people down in New Orleans who are reading this blog by the way.
We got $3,000 worth of saftey equipment from Dival which was really nice of them.
People also gave $2,500 to help students get to New Orleans. That was a big help for a lot of people who might not have gotten to go without their support.

Mr. Aguglia is sponsoring a documentary contest for all of us. He wants to see what we thought of the trip and whatnot. I thought that was pretty cool.

So many people have been asking about the trip, congratulating us for the work we did. I think that's cool. I love sharing the stories with my friends who aren't in band, though I think they're starting to get sick of them. Teachers tell me they're reading the blog and I love that they're interested. We got a link on the school website so maybe more people will be able to read this and see what a great trip we had.

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