[POSTCARD FROM THE USA] A typical American high school activity

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Business English with Christina


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- Hey, ambassadors, Christina here.
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And I have a little surprise for you this morning.
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I was sitting in my parents' house doing some work
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this morning, and I heard a lot of noise like
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(imitates drumming)
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And I was like, "what is going on outside?".
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And so I came outside and I kind of had an idea of
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what it is, because I had done this before.
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I'm gonna, I'm not gonna tell you, I'm gonna see maybe
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if you can imagine what it is.
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Let's run and see.
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(drumming)
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So here I am with, sorry, what is your name?
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- Cameron Meyer.
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- Cameron. Okay, and Cameron, you are the drum captain
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if I've understood.
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Can you tell us a little bit about like what y'all
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are doing out here and...
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- Well, basically we're just, you know, we march from school
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just around the neighborhood
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- Yeah.
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- You get used to carrying the drums with the weight
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and the heat so that way once everybody gets down here
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next week with the full band that we're already prepared
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so that we're not dragging anybody else behind.
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- Okay, well that's pretty good.
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How long have y'all been out here this morning?
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- We've been out here since about 9:30.
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- Since about 9:30. Okay, and it's pretty hot?
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- Yeah.
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- Yeah, it's pretty hot out here, yeah.
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And so what do you like about playing the drums?
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- I don't...
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It's just, it's a lot more fun.
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- Yeah.
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- You know, you get to do more stuff, you definitely put in
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a lot of work and toward the end of the season
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the competition when that work is finally put through
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and we get the score that we want.
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It's a lot of fun.
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- Yeah. Drummers were always like, the cool people
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in the band. They're not like, you know, the flute players
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or something.
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- I'm a little biased, but yeah.
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- Yeah, right, yeah.
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Okay, well good. Well thank you very much for taking
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a minute out of your practice to talk to us.
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Yeah, thanks.
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(drumming)
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So that's it! It's actually a group of drummers who are
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practicing for the summer high school band.
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In the US, extra-curricular activities, extra-curricular
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activities like sports, music, are pretty important.
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And, you know, it's summer here, so technically
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it's vacation time. But these kids, they give up one
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or two weeks of their summer to prepare the halftime show
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at the football game.
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That's the football stadium in the background.
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Right here in front of us is the baseball field.
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Back there the football stadium.
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And so starting in a few weeks there will be American
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football games there for the high school team.
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And of course there will be a halftime show.
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And these kids who are marching back there,
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kinda like, right there now, are actually gonna perform.
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They'll be with the drums, the musical instruments like
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the clarinets, which I played.
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It takes practice to put it together.
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And they're gonna spend this week and next week
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practicing all day out in this hot sun preparing their
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halftime show. So, respect for them, and if you ever
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go to an American game and see the halftime show,
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you'll really, really appreciate it.
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Alright, we're gonna enjoy the show.
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(drumming)
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