Andrew's Vignette- A Growing Feeling for Percussion

Sometimes I look back to that day, in forth grade, and think about the decision I made. As always when you go into a new school you have an assembly for the incoming kids but this assembly was different. We went through the things, that I will find out after years are regularly said at an assembly for incoming students, and at the end they brought up Ms. Zacheis, who showed us all the different instruments you can play in the school. I saw many that I thought sounded cool because my mom said, "pick an instrument that you think sound nice, not one you think is cool." but at the same time I wanted to play the drums, until I listened to the saxophone. It sounded cool and I thought it was cool. I decided that that would be my instrument, but then I heard the Rut-tut-tutting of the snare drum and I liked the sound and thought it was cool too.

I could not decided which one to pick but when they brought out the sheet, it asked for 2 choices, one instrument you definitively wanted to play, and the second was for if the school does not have enough spaces for the instrument you want. I had decided what instrument I wanted to play then and there. it was the instrument I wanted to play after I heard that you can play an instrument in the school, the drums. I wrote down drums first then saxophone second. I think I had made the right choice because right now I am no longer trapped looking through the window of my life because of what drums has done for me, making me able to become my own man who is right now the president of the marching band after being the drum captain. I am making my own decisions now about things but at the same time i have only broken the lock and all I need to do now is wait for the right time to step through the window and be completely free.

-Andrew Neils-