I played the clarinet and sometime base clarinet in 4th/5th grade but then the program got cut due to lack of funds. So 5 years goes by, and they start the music program back up for the grammer school and high school (I live in a really small town, population 350). So I was like what the heck, why not, I haven't played in 5 years. So I play in the band my junior and senior year. It was lots of fun (oh the guys that played were athletes too and cute and my friends
). I'm glad I did it, except for the "zero period" thing where we have band class before regular school. And let me tell you practice does count, I really sucked not playing in 5 years. But hey I still got an A in the class.