Color Guard Award Essay

This year I achieved a fairly prestigious award. I had received the National School Color Guard Award. This award is achieved by sheer talent and being a good person by helping others out. This essay will go over my story working up to achieving the award and what my take on it is. The National School Color Guard Award should be what every member of any color guard team tries to achieve. It is also extremely easy to achieve if the person attempting to achieve it is willing to put in the time. This award is achieved by not only talent, but also from helping others out, and just having a good attitude in general. This award is achieved by meeting all of these requirements. last school year, I, much like most of the other seasoned guard members, had been working our tails off to get the new members to know how to do the fundamental tricks. We were also trying to show that we were fit to be a section leader. We all took turns to step …show more content…
Before I knew it, I was having my last performance. The awards were going to be announced, at the end of the concert and I thought that one of the other girls were going to receive the award. This was my perception because I thought that one of the other seniors had deserved more than I had. I thought that there had to have been another member of the color guard who had worked their butts of more than I did and deserved to be recognized for it. As I was contemplating on who would deserve the award, my attention was drawn to the performance area. The band director was rambling on about what the award means and how someone receives it. As soon as he finished, he quickly blurted out my name. I was in shock. I could not believe that he had actually said my name. My legs began to move before my brain told them too. I had the cheesiest grin on my face as I accepted the award, and quickly walked off stage. "I did it!" I thought "This is what I had been working