I was in my high school marching band. I played clarinet for the first 3 years and was drum major my senior year. It was a very big part of my life and that was basically the "click" I belonged to. We all hung out together all year long (here in Maine marching band season was in the fall). We competed against other high school bands in the state and in fact won the state championship for our division my sophomore year. I have very happy memories of those times and I still, 17 years later, have close contact with many of the friends made back then.