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This is the hill I walk up every morning to get to the bus stop. It's... hilly, I guess.
And the bus stop, of course, is at a meaningfully-named location.
Ah! Here's the bus now. It's blurry, as is the rest of my morning. I don't wake up until 3rd period most days.
By the advanced technology known as Pete-not-taking-enough-pics, we're now at Monterey High School. I walked up another hill before taking this picture. Our school is built on, of course, another hill. How very handy. Hilly and helly. Yes.
Construction for the school began in 1905 and is still in progress, just like the California freeway system. (No, actually, they're putting in wheelchair ramps... this has been going on since last summer)
Lower campus isn't used for much anymore, but the buses drop us off at, of course, the bottom of the hill. So up we go.
The boardwalk isn't a place by the beach with roller coasters and carnival food... it's just some wood on the ground... (yeah, the construction has everything all weird)
We've now walked the board and climbed the bleachers. Here's a view from the top there. Look carefully and you can see two long white lines near the bottom of the lower field (which is nearer to the top of the pic), slightly to the right of the centerline of the pic. Those are the tops of school buses. It's a bit of a walk.
Now we continue. Most of the hilliness is passed, but it still takes another minute or two to get to the very top of campus... and we're on the wrong end. Now, across the campus to Junior Hall...
I usually hang out there in the morning before 1st period... band! Normally we have a 6-period day, but today is different. Today we're going to Hartnell College for a band festival. This means 1st and 6th period I get to screw around at the music building, and 2nd through 5th we'll be gone. So, in the spirit of screwing around... a totally random pic of my friend Scott. (I like randomly shooting people when they don't realize I have a camera.)
Equally random is this shot of Chris.
I still don't understand the gigantic smokestack sticking out of the Randall Gym. It makes it look like a crematorium. Which it probably is anyway.
Alright, time to get that bus fully loaded! That's the best way to ride -- fully loaded. Just ask Mattbro ;-P
And again utilizing my lack of photography, we arrive in Salinas not in 45 minutes, but in however much time it took the pic to load! Isn't that amazing! Anyway, we walk to some building to go warm up.
And here we are warming up. It was nice to finally play in a room that actually had non-sucky acoustics.
And I'll start a third sentence with "and." So we go to ze stage to perform. Judges liked us but said the low tones need to be brought out more. (We've known this for months.)
We wandered around to find lunch. In the process, I found a statue of the school mascot. Here ya go Dragster.
Whoosh! Back to Monterey High. Random picture again.
I changed to street clothes before I left school because I didn't feel like walking 2.5 miles in dress shoes. Stopped by the library, then headed for Alvarado street.
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