Love at the First Sight

When I stepped on my campus for the first time, I was amazed by the marching band performance in the ceremony for welcoming new students. It was so beautiful that everybody couldn’t turn around from it. I didn’t know why. It was I who was excessive or it was indeed amazing. Since that time, I intended to join this activity in campus; we called it UKM (Unit Kegiatan Mahasiswa).
Few months later, I made it true by joining this activity. I registered and did the placement test. In marching band there are 3 sections, they are: percussion, color guard, and brass. Honestly, I wanted to be color guard player, the section which plays some equipments like flags, rifle, saber, and etc. And finally, I was accepted as the color guard. I was so happy and I promised to be serious. There were 8 students joining this activity who were my classmates. They were accepted in different section with me.
It ran well for about few months. But it was revealed that many students quit from this activity. I admitted that this kind of activity seized more time. It also needed endurance. I did not deny as well that this kind of activity made people exhausted and they had to sacrifice their time and energy. So, I think people who could join this activity are not common people. At last, my classmates also quit and there were only 2 students in my department who joined it, me and my friend, Mayang. We worked harder and harder to join the inauguration. A couple of months later, we were truly the members of Marching Band Universitas Gadjah Mada after being inaugurated. It was not easy to get it all because we had to do some efforts and it was so hard.
After being inaugurated, my really first performance was the celebration of Marching Band Universitas Gadjah Mada’s birthday, it was some time on April 2010 if I am not mistaken. Then, the management of my band decided to join the most important event in Jakarta. So, we had to prepare for about 8 months. It was so challenging and sometimes boring.............TO BE CONTINUED