Personal Narrative: The Plano West Mighty Wolf Band

“Can I get a Wolfpack?” someone yells across the field. “Wolfpack!” I yell back with 190 other schoolmates. We repeat this call and response two more times before letting out a fierce cry. I am proud to be a member of this tradition, also known as the end-of-practice call of the Plano West Mighty Wolf Band. I am also glad to be a part of this organization because it has connected me to many friends at Plano West. But what a majority of those friends do not know is that I had never been even remotely associated with such a tradition until the second semester of my sophomore year. This is because I relocated from California to Texas in the middle of sophomore year. Moving was second nature to me. In fact, I have relocated five times before this most recent move. My family has been constantly on the move since my father landed an electrical engineering job at Siemens. Ever since, he had to travel abroad often, switching jobs at times. Eventually, my father found a job offering in California, and he asked me and my mother to join him. After that, the three of us have gone wherever my father’s jobs took him. By the time I relocated to Plano, I …show more content…
Because I swam and played water polo for Terra Linda High School, my feet were more used to beating the water at a fast rate than moving on the ground with a constant tempo. As a result, I could not march well and was forced to become a non-marcher both years at Plano West. As a non-marcher, however, I was able to learn more about marching band and music. For example, observing the marchers’ feet keep up with the tempo enabled me to follow the tempo better while playing concert music. This failure to become a marcher also drove me to find and be better at other extracurricular activities, especially math and science