Personal Narrative: Steel Band Work

“I have homework in all of my classes and a three hour steel band practice? This has to be a joke!” I thought to myself, lumping my thoughts together while getting home from school. Lumping is when someone groups things together without discrimination, which in my case, normally involved a lot of school work. When I hear the word “lumping,” the week of the Steel Band’s radio show comes to mind immediately. Steel Band has always been one of my favorite ways to spend time, but this week made me feel like there was too much going on at once. Having to do four to five assignments a night while practicing for three hours was hard for me to balance, and I felt that there was no way for it to be possible. Luckily, I realized that I was most definitely wrong. In the long run, lumping helped me become a better student, and be better at making time for the priorities in my life.
It was the Thursday before the radio show, and we were having our …show more content…
Eventually I understood that this strategy did not work for me, and realized there had been many other solutions to balancing out my school work and long practices. An obvious solution would have been to just suck it up, and do my homework before practice. Doing it before practice, like we had been advised, would have saved me from the copious amounts of stress that had been placed on me. This also would have given me more freedom after arriving home to do more enjoyable things. Without having this stress in my life, I would have been less nervous for the concert, and more excited.
Along with doing homework before getting to the school, I could have brought it to the school with me, and done it there. We had plenty of breaks throughout the time we were there to play, with more than enough time to finish work, if I had thought to bring it with me. Even better than bringing it to school, I could have made a schedule of all of the things that had to be done, which is known to me now as “Sketching the Dragon.” Doing this