“Why bother being like everybody else when when you could do your own thing?” my eldest sister told me when I joined band in the sixth grade.
In middle school I decided to play a brass instrument which was not popular for a girl to play. Most of my friends had chosen a woodwind either a flute, clarinet or saxophone. I was told it was a non girly instrument and that it was lame choice. But I ignored then and stuck to what I believed was the right choice for me. The first day of school arrived and I got introduced to the “non girly” and “lame” instrument called by my friends. As the weeks passed by I started to believe what my friends said about the instrument what true. Two girls in the section had quit and moved to a woodwind because brass
In middle school I decided to play a brass instrument which was not popular for a girl to play. Most of my friends had chosen a woodwind either a flute, clarinet or saxophone. I was told it was a non girly instrument and that it was lame choice. But I ignored then and stuck to what I believed was the right choice for me. The first day of school arrived and I got introduced to the “non girly” and “lame” instrument called by my friends. As the weeks passed by I started to believe what my friends said about the instrument what true. Two girls in the section had quit and moved to a woodwind because brass