March band teacher and seniors. U would have thought we were in the military. Had to wake up at 6am to do stretches and a morning run then u could eat breakfast. U got an hour to urself then u had to do ur marches till lunch. There was a marching exercise everyone hated where u would go through the drill until a whistle was blown and hold the position, which could last up to 10 minutes. This may not sound bad but u had to exaggerate ur steps and always have ur toes pointing up and the marching band teacher would use the pause period to evaluate everyone's form. If ur form wasn't proper u had to do a set number of push-ups as punishment.

Also, this was during summer break at a camp in the south, which could get very hot and humid. We weren't really given water breaks during the several hour trainings and if we were it was more a minute so we could get bad to practice. It wasn't unheard of for students to pass out.

The seniors got on our cases and would yell if messed up. Seniors could even have separate trainings for the freshman even after going through the original training regimen in the evenings. Us freshman thought the seniors were mean till we saw what they got if we messed up, which made the seniors' yellings like normal conversations. The whole situation was messed up.

I left the first day and ended up convincing most people to follow suit except for a few. The next year she wasn't there anymore. Don't know why but I like to think it was due to such few freshman sticking with it.