Personal Narrative: Band Class

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Once upon a time, I was in class, more specifically, band class. In the recent years of me being in band, we have been fundraising money to go on a trip to Branson, Missouri. Ever since the eighth grade, our band director has said we will being going on the in the spring of 2017. Band members and parents had just recently discovered that we would not be able to go travel there the next school year due to an inadequate amount of money in our account. Our band boosters were supposed to have set aside enough money, but it turns out that our band director had been spending money on supplies we did not need. God only knows where else he put the rest of our money.

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