St. George’s College (Week #106) – Day #486

Date for Entry: (Thursday 01 May 2025)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (June 2026)

[T3, W:01 – WD:03, (Td:3)*].

Dear Diary,

    I was awoken at 5AM on the staffroom floor. Miss and I left the compound with the other bags to travel out. It was interesting to see how early persons would go exercising in the morning. We met back up on the road on the way to school, and "Choo Choo" met us too, walking in. Jessie's mother stopped by for a long talk, and the sun was baking. Without eating anything last night, I knew I had to wait a long while for the Channa pies. The gas was already starting to get me upset. Thankfully, the brownie that Mel bought for me was on my desk, so I ate it.

    Rhea came by my desk to ask me to help make copies of pages in her markbook like the last time. Seeing that today was the first day of exams for the Art students, I went to get copies of the student list for Miss and the invigilators when they come. Didn't see Rhea, so I went on without her. Other teachers had asked me for help as soon as I got in there.

    Miss Rivas came to check up and see how things went with the marks submission. My response to her was, "Well.... We got whatever we could have gotten completed." She was shocked and asked me to clarify. His eyes opened wide and we laughed about that. Only when I got back, Rhea found me, so we went back to the office one time, and I did her copies. Miss Rivas also had copies of two sheets to do. She said, "Mr Ali. They should ban you from voting." That was the next joke when everyone saw my finger.

    Once Rhea's copies were done, I was gone from there. I took my tray and laptop bag over to the art room and sat by the teacher's desk. Miss was getting her documents ready for work today. A lot of the students were in the room already preparing for their Painting and Mixed Media practical exam. It was going to be a full day of two session and, each of them to last three hours.

    Just before the exam began, I had a good conversation with Mr Sammy about goals in life and the importance of Music and the Arts. He left some moments before the exam was to start. A man and a lady came into the room. They were the invigilators. Three students were in orals for either French or Spanish. Once the prayer was over, Miss allowed me to do the roll count for the Painting and Mixed Media work. This was going to be a full day's work with both sessions of three hours each until 4 PM.

    During the morning's session, Miss and I contibued to work on forms for CSEC. There was a page that had to total both students' marks from 120 to 240. Then the rankings would have to be done. I told Miss I could not do the rankings. Praise God for the Excel markbook that I made for gathering the data. We got the lists of assignment forms completed and others. She did not find her marksheets for lower school, so we could not work on that.

    Lunchtime came by really quick. She told me that it was all right to make the Bristol board envelopes during the exam. I could have done it during the morning but didn't want the stomping to make too much noise in the room. We had some more work to do in the afternoon session before I got to making the envelopes. The whole day, my laptop was turned on and being used. I left it to sleep up on a sliver shelf next to me and cleared an area on the desk.

    The student working with Miss all through the morning had gone, so I used the desk portion where he was to leave my tray. I got up and began to draw the lines for the envelopes first. The stapling was done after. I had forgotten to reinforce them. The man and lady were watching me going back and forth with some of the envelopes to get the heading. They looked on with excitement to see me write the information on the top in cursive. I think they liked that part. The rest of the blue writing was done back at the table by Miss.

    When the exam was over by the time the blue writing was done, and there were enough envelopes for all the pieces that evening. Miss told the students to take pictures of their work because it was not going to be returned and that sometimes it ends up in someone else's house. I had the option on the envelopes written as Painting and Mixed Media whenever a new one was going to be used. Miss had forgotten to give the students the slip of paper to stick on the back of their canvas.

    After school, I had to go back and write the candidate's number onto the envelope. They were all placed on the desk to the back where the sculptures were set until their next exam. Some of the other pieces from today had to remain out on another table to dry overnight. The rest of the evening was sitting and liming in the art room until minutes after 4 PM. Miss and I were so very tired after that long run since yesterday at 9AM to now (4:50). Neither of us couldn't walk or want to get up.

    For some reason, the students and Miss were talking, and the topic turned to relationships, and I had some questions to answer too. I left them and took my time walking up very slow up the road today. It was even surprising to have to see the sun setting from the highway while trying to get a bus on the bus route. Could not do anything for the rest of the night. I was mostly on the couch and then fell asleep there.

 

Daryl Zion M. Ali

(“7:34 am” – 5:58 pm)

St. George’s College (Week #106) – Day #485

Date for Entry: (Wednesday 30 April 2025)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (June 2026)

[T3, W:01 – WD:02, (Td:2)*].

Dear Diary,

    Today was the second day of school. Monday was the General Elections, and the UNC won. It was also timesheet day since today is the last day of the month. This was the first thing that was taken care of as soon as I set my bags down in the staffroom. When I got into the office, Miss Dayna greeted me. Some of the teachers caught me making copies for them. Thankfully, when I went back, Patty had asked if I was feeling better, and then she signed my timesheet and the resumption form. I wrote my name on the clipboard and left it by the computer for Afisha. I went to eat.

    After this was to head to the art room for the marking. Once I got there, Miss confirmed that tonight at midnight was the deadline for the SBAs. When I saw this, I went back for my laptop. I had to save the markbook as a 2025 document and begin plugging in the data from the marksheets made by me into the digital markbook. Both of us were at the table for the whole day. I didn't even realise that lunchtime had come and gone when students were leaving. It was the end of school.

    Daddy called at 5 PM to see if I could get out, but the way things were looking, we were gonna have to stay the night in school. It was nice of Joshua to stop by and help us. He eventually had to leave at minutes past 11 PM. Arielle and Nathaniel stayed back with us until 10 PM, working on their SBA pieces. Their parents came for them.

    Around 9 PM, we were getting a WhatsApp call from "Kimmy" on Mel's phone. She was asking for marks that could be entered by the time. Only four students had completed, so I sent her a picture of the final tallies from the markbook (the page 2s). It was very cramping in my head to have to tell Miss that it still had way too many students to go. We continued until some minutes after 10 PM, when Patty and Kimmy called us in a group call. The two of them were trying to help us. Patty said that she would be going to bed in the next few minutes.

    By 11:42, Kimmy called us back, and we still had a lot more marking to do. She had to stop because the CXC site was sticking, and she said it was a final rush for other schools too. Miss and I did whatever we could, and by 1:39 AM, we had finally left the art room. I remained awake for another two hours, and at 3:39 AM, I finally rested my body on the staffroom floor at the base of the desk and went to sleep. I never imagined how cold or rock-hard the ground could have been. It was harder than stone and colder than the fridge. Eventually, I fell asleep, and that was another night working at St. George’s.

 

Daryl Zion M. Ali

("8:13 am" – 4:28 pm)

Day #484 – (7:53 am – 3:39 pm)

St. George’s College (Week #105) – Day #483

Date for Entry: (Friday 11 April 2025)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Friday 26 June 2026)

[T2, W:14 – WD:64, (Td:5)*].

Dear Diary,

    This morning was the last working day for term 2. As soon as I was walking into the compound, I met Mr Raymond coming out as if he was going home. Mel, too, was hurrying out the door and told me that she was leaving. I stayed back doing up the five envelopes that I did for the Form 5 SBAs. I had Javid's desk cleaned down and did the work on it. The envelopes were left on her desk afterwards. Mr Martin had a very peculiar way of saying he did not like them, Lolz. Oh well! The teachers left one by one. Miss Carthy and Jess ended up going to the beach alone when she pike it out loud. It sounded like some of her friends felt left out.

    Before Mr Marlon and Miss Soodeen left, they shared some of then stuff they had from the breakfast this morning. I waited and waited, and then Patty's long meeting with Kim finished. She was a bit confused on my question about the meeting with me and the forms. We literally had a few more hours before the school day was over. She said that Miss Chote had gone a long time ago but I had to ask if it was necessary for her to he there. We walked over to the Principal's office to have the meeting. It was needed since I had been waiting since September to have one with somebody in charge. She was busy on the phone, and there was a long wait after three people were done.

    The meeting began at 2:01 PM. There was a folder that I had put together with copies of the forms. We went through each one while I made notes on changes to be made. Several of the forms were in good standing. There were a lot of forms that I had done and I was not sure if all of them were there. I will have to compare them at home. Patty's husband was outside and she had to go. The meeting ended at 2:33 pm. I had a nice chat with Miss Solomon before leaving the compound. Had to go and get some documents by Isa that evening.

 

LINK(S):

• Notes from the Meeting. (View Logbook)

 

Daryl Zion M. Ali

(7:56 am – 3:32 pm)

St. George’s College (Week #105) – Day #482

Date for Entry: (Thursday 10 April 2025)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Friday 26 June 2026)

[T2, W:14 – WD:63, (Td:4)*].

Dear Diary,

    This morning, as soon as I came I sat and ate a pie from Curepe in the staffroom. The ace was quiet, but teachers were at work on marking their papers. I knew that there would be no aloo pies today. While drinking my water Mel came into the room to her desk. She said that she was going to see Patty about the art supplies for exams. She was saying that the school didnt have much funds to cover the materials.

    When I was ready to go the office, I went to use the washroom and took my tray over there. Mel was sitting inside and there was a special surprise to see Miss Amkin in there. Immediately, I caught myself and realised that the timetable letter was not done since Miss gave it to me to do for them. I gave her the handwritten document to verify one last time. She took the time to check over the dates, too. I had asked her to call out the information, and that made everything easy.

    Patty and the examiners went out to tour the school to come back. I had time to print the document, stamp it and let Mel sign it. Patty met me in the corridor by the door from the hall and she said that we were only bumping into each other. She got the form from me to sign. We asked the examiner who gets the original. We were advised to make some copies of it, of which they got one and then the original was scanned and sent to someone named Crystal Boodoo. Mel and I had to ask Miss Amkin who would be the person the letter was addressing earlier. It took a long time for the call to come through while it was being typed up.

    After that was over, some time after, Patty said that there was a transcript that she needed help doing. It was for another student. She got some of the records from the student's report book. Theybwere images in the school's FAC account. I got them printed and batched all the documents together. I also had a Transcript Numbers Sheet that I made for the gathering of marks. I sat at the same desk as yesterday, where I updated the OJT logbook. Patty came out and asked if I liked the desk being there. I noticed that the Air conditioning unit was starting to squirt again.

    Surprisingly, the whole day went by so quick. I heard the sound of Shaun shouting outside, and when I saw him with his bookbag on and looked at the time, it was 2:30 PM exact. I ended up in the office a bit longer. My plan to create, design and print the logbook for students to leave the school compound was done. Patty passed back and asked about ehat was printing. She said that exams were over. Immediately after, I went to do the same for the Keys register book. The same cover page and identity page were used for both documents.

    "Kimmy" came by to ask me to help her make prints of signs for her Movie Night fundraiser. This would be going towards the Graduation of 2025. I didnt have the time to make a logbook for the collection of CAPE and CSEC certificates, and this one is deperately needed. When I got back into the staff room from the long way Miss Soodeen was walking out. she had a lovely silver outfit on. I saw a lot of teachers who had left and come back to school from their homes. She asked if I did the same and she was suprised when I told her that I was now leaving the office since morning. She was shocked.

    The time was minutes to 5 PM. "Mr Marlon" and Donna were chatting while "Cleo" was sitting and eating her Hunchies. He had something to share with me too. I realised that a grey bag was on my desk. It looked like fruit. It felt like portugal but then I opened the bag it smelled like Mangoes. Walking up the road was very difficult with the bag of mangoes. My bookbag was also filled with files to take home. It was 6:07 PM by the time that I got on a bus. That night I got  home feeling very sick. I didn't do anything at all except call Aunty Anmarie for about a half an hour and then went to rest off the sick feeling.

 

Daryl Zion M. Ali

(7:43 am – 6:07 pm)

St. George’s College (Week #105) – Day #481

Date for Entry: (Wednesday 09 April 2025)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Friday 26 June 2026)

[T2, W:14 – WD:62, (Td:3)*].

Dear Diary,

    This morning was a quick one to school. The ride and walk down Sixth Avenue was also swift. I got to school, and as soon as I set down my stuff I went to the cafe. "Salisha" served me today. She said that they didn't make any aloo pies today. I sat down outside near the MTS area, and from there, Miss Mary spoke with me until minutes after 10.

    I went to do the transfer from my file to the Ministry file. Firstly I had it emailed to the school's Gmail from Miss Chote, and then it was printed in the office. I took the prints to Indera and offered to carry it over to the teachers. They saw the form in my hand, and then I went back to the office. When I asked, Indera told me that she had a lot of outstanding leave forms that teachers did not applied for to do work on March. She said that she does not see March 2025 being completed before the term is over. She had a laugh over how many people there were to get their forms in, too. I decided to go and work on the February since it was taken care of.

    While working on the forms, two men were working on the air conditioning wires up in the ceiling. It had a short stall until they left. Miss Ali was with them out in the quadrangle earlier. I spent the rest of the afternoon in the staffroom working again. I went back to the office to update the OJT logbook. I was telling Candice sitting by the new desk they put in the office, that I should be able to keep the book when I'm done with signing it. It was only my name signing the book afterwards. That evening, I got back the money from patty for the contact paper and the Annual Teachers' leave forms.

    I went up to Isa to get some more copies of those leave forms folders with the same payment amount. Two sets of the fifty-piece quote was printed. I had asked for one set in green and the other in pink. I feel like the 2022 forms were calling for the green. When I told Isa, "See yah tomorrow," he watched me very surprised. I reminded him about the next set of work that I would like him to do for me. This would be the Borrowing Card's Pocket Label. He said that he might not get time, so it looked like I would have to wait until Friday evening when he came back from the Mosque.

    All of today felt like a Thursday. I was telling daddy this when I was in the car going up the road. I got up the road and was then working on something. Didn't bother to watch any television. Instead, I went to shower and get some more work done before the night was over.

    Tonight, I decided to work on the Oral Marksheet for Spanish and French again. This time, it would be transformed into a digital sheet via Excel. It took me the full working time of the night, as suspected. By 10:16 PM, I had sent it off to Miss Dayna via WhatsApp. I left a note to apologise for sending it so late. Hopefully, there will be a time to make queries about the subtotals section that is just before the grand totals column. I did not know where the division of the 20 and 60 points came from.

    That was all for the rest of the night. I look forward to working on the leave forms tomorrow. Indera said that she wouldnt be there tomorrow. Only when I was by Isa did I completely forget to lock up the office when she asked. She just darted out of the office and left. I will have to see how much I can do tomorrow.

 

Daryl Zion M. Ali

(9:18 am – 4:32 pm)

St. George’s College (Week #105) – Day #480

Date for Entry: (Tuesday 08 April 2025)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Friday 26 June 2026)

[T2, W:14 – WD:61, (Td:3)*].

Dear Diary,

    Today felt like a Wednesday. I remembered telling Daddy that yesterday felt like a Tuesday and that Monday was missing from the week. Daddy had to go and get the car inspected, so that took a while. I was able to get one book catalogued. The cards for the book will have to be written up when I get home later. My stomach was empty so I went to buy the pies one time. I met "Reuben" and "O'Neil" there, being served by Miss Hannah.

    I went to eat in the staffroom. Had to go to the washroom but waited until after. I went to check on Indera. She wasnt in her office at the time. She and Patty were speaking to four women in police T-shirts. The Easter show was still in progress, walking along the side of the hall. When she spoke with me, she said that she was asked to do the Vote of Thanks for the show. I told her that I could still take the numbers to enter and have the formula to tally all of the final totals. She opened up the filing cabinet for me to take out the February numbers. All of this took one hour.

    When this was done, I took the laptop over for her to check while I called the numbers out by date and checked the totals. Some errors were corrected. One interruption was with Miss Harris to speak to Indera. I waited by the printer, working on this morning of today's entry. There was another reason for me to step out, too, before this. We got all of them fixed up. We were not ready for us to have thise totals re-entered into the Ministry Excel file for the teachers to sign on. This will have to be done when I get home.

    I went to visit Mel in the back. The sky was very dark, and no breeze to cool the hot building. She had Matias with her today, and the children were babysitting. I tried to set up her marks for her on the digital markbook. Fortunately, we were able to get the Form 1s seen to. When we got to working on the Form 2s, she was sleeping on herself. I couldn't wait on her to catch herself, so I closed up the laptop and went to the staffroom.

    I decided to leave early and go up the road to Isa. Surprisingly, the inside had a really nice air refreshner that smelled like the essence from the Christmas sponge cake. We got a test print of the "REGULAR Small" donation card. It was smaller than expected but very workable. I will adjust the sizing and try again. Once I ate and daddy left I fell asleep on the couch until 10:03 at night. Got showered and went to do cataloguing until 2AM. I had forgotten to do the copying and pasting into the Ministry file. Maybe tomorrow in school.

 

Daryl Zion M. Ali

(7:52 am – 3:07 pm)

St. George’s College (Week #105) – Day #479

Date for Entry: (Monday 07 April 2025)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Friday 26 June 2026)

[T2, W:14 – WD:60, (Td:2)*].

Dear Diary,

    Yesterday, for communion, the Sunday School band played "Love is Action" for the communion service. I made one mistake when Mr Sharma made a skate. He played the Fouble Seconds part next to me in the front. I was the only Tenor Pannist that morning. I used the silver pan, and it worked really well. Maybe it was tuned again?

    This morning was very difficult to wake up to the call of Daddy knocking on the window. There was a long wait for me to get out of the house and go. The police were coming down, and they made me miss the chance to cross the bus route. Thankfully, one maxi waited, and it was slightly empty. The ride down to Sixth Avenue was swift with the hard mash of the accelerator. I needed to walk very slowly this morning. 

    It took me a while to get up from my seat in the staff room while cooling off in the air-conditioning. I saw "Tia" standing by the hall's doors, supervising an exam. She said that she would come to collect the Social Studies (P1) exam in a while.

    The office was very empty. Afisha was walking out, probably to supervision also. As soon as I walked into the VP's office, Indera told me that she was supposed to be working on some minutes for the teachers' leave. She said that she had remembered now that I had walked into the room. My tray was set onto the cupboard by the window. I decided to make copies of the receipts that had to go to Patty for my reimbursement. Rhea was making her copies at the machine. She said that she wanted to get her work from Moderation completed in time. She also mentioned that the Moderation was taking place tomorrow.

    The wait for Indera was a bit longer. I went to get my laptop over in case we needed it. It was only 9:41, and I was starting to feel sick with no food in me. Mr Richard said to come back in the next hour. I still feel bad for not being able to do the entry for last week. It feels like typing takes more time than writing it out by hand. Indera was still going at the minutes. I went to collect the pies. I met Mr Mohan on the way, and he gave me some information I had asked him to find out for me. It was good to see "Riba" again. He and everyone else made an expression when Mr Richard asked the staff to make the two aloo pies with plenty of pepper.

    I went to the staffroom to eat them and then went to say hello in the Art Building. Mel was with the forms, entering. I told her that I could not stay. When I asked about Bristol Board, all of the children were staring at us blankly. She said, "When Mr Ali comes to work, he comes to work." I saw that she was writing in the information on the Moderation of School form for CXC from the form that I made. It would have been nice to have something that generated all of the marks for the teacher and made it easy. This was my task for the day.

    I had three to four back-and-forth trips to the Art Building and the Staffroom to clarify some things. It took me from 11 AM all the way to 4 PM working on the document in Excel until it was time to go. Donna and I remained by our desks the entire day. Mel and I walked out. We had to stop to see if she could find her glasses, but it wasnt found. We had to hurry up before the rain came down again. 

    Thankfully, a maxi came down when the green light came. Daddy was at the lotto place when I got outside of the terminal. We went to visit Isa to request Borrowing Card Pocket Labels for 5 sets. He had forgotten which document it was until we opened the email from December last year. The cost price was not entered as last time, so he called the price of 65 dollars per set.

    That night, I worked on the Visual Arts Excel document again. A huge number of changes were made to get it to that state. I did not make the 'Moderation Sheet' that I planned to do, as it would be too much back and forth to get formulae from one book to another sheet. I had to strategically make space at the bottom of the second page and then put a place to do the totals of the overall totals. Only because of the varied spacing on the columns, I was not able to get everything neatly laid out to copy directly into the Moderation of School form.

    I still hope that this document will be a blessing to any Visual Arts teacher that wished to use it. I went immediately to the 'REGULAR' small donation card for the library. Choosing the font and colour was the hardest decision. Everything else fitted well. It was emailed and sent off to Isa by Email. The time was then 12:24. Took a quick shower and went to bed.  

 

Daryl Zion M. Ali

(8:15 am – 4:15 pm)

St. George’s College (Week #104) – Day #473

Date for Entry: (Wednesday 02 April 2025)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (June 2026)

[T2, W:13 – WD:57, (Td:5)*].

Dear Diary,

    This morning, Daddy had to knock on the window a third time in the window. It was not easy to get up and move. When it was time to cross the road, I made a joke to Daddy, saying that my legs were not ready to move. I had to wait for the lights to cross the bus route, too. Praise God, a bus was still waiting. I got in and prayed that the rain would hold up until I got to school. The walk was alright.

    As soon as I got into the staffroom, it was brighter. I realised that they got the light bulbs changed. Thankfully, my phone charger was still there. I got the forms that were taken home to cut placed into the white container from last week Thursday onto a desk with forms. "Hana" spoke with me again before I walked off. When I felt comfortable walking out into the front yard, I realised that I had forgotten to take my tray. I packed it up and went straight to Indera. She asked how the weekend went for me, and then I got into the printing.

    While taking the first exam to do, there was a burning smell in the corridor. Candice couldn't smell it, but others could. She did make the joke about being careful before the printer exploded. I did the first three exams and then went for the pies, but they were out. That meant that I was gonna go without eating the whole day again. I went to have another drink of water and then get back to work.

    I had the copies that Mel wanted to get for the Form 5s left in the Art Building. She was supervising a Form 1 Music exam. I saw that Miss Dayna was going to supervise 1M, and there was no sign of Roberts. There was also a situation for the music exams this morning, and I knew I did the papers. We ended up finding them. I saw "Hana" coming to see Patty also. There was a lot of heat in the corridor area too.

    A long while after Dr Jogie came to collect his Form 2 papers for Maths and the MCQ answer sheets. He had some of Mr Bain's papers to send that were due tomorrow. I got them printed from the email and then had everything logged in. What I had forgotten to check by the time was the layout of the documents. The files sent by email were Word Documents. I would have to remind sir about PDFs next time. Mr Harry also came by for his PE exam to make a copy. The printing was a picture, and the whole page was dark all over. Patty came out and was shocked to see it. I know that I wouldn't want to be the one to print something like that. He said that he couldnt find the original copy when I asked him.

    Soon, Mrs Allen-Brown came to print a second copy of her exam. I ended up doing the formatting for her, and then the copy was made. She told me to make 60 copies of the exam and that it had to be on long paper. I was happy to have completed the whole batch of papers to be printed for this term's exams. Not sure who would be doing the rest for all the last minute people, lolz.

    I went to the Art Building to see if Miss was there, and it was locked up. When I got back to the staffroom Gloria invited me for a ride home today, so I took it. I had to go back to the office to collect a box that I was saving for my book to send down to Alma Jordan Library. That night I continued working on the book. The lesson was on dotted notes and rests after.

 

NOTICE:

1. Monday 31st was Eid-ul-Fitr, and Tusday 01st was Shouter Baptist Holiday.
2. The time for Thursday, 3rd and Friday 4th was not enough to sit and complete the journal entries. Please continue to the next one.

Daryl Zion M. Ali

(8:22 am – 3:43 pm)

Day #474 – (7:54 am – 3:21 pm)

Day #475 – (7:59 am – 4:38 pm)

St. George’s College (Week #103) – Day #472

Date for Entry: (Friday 28 March 2025)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Friday 01 August 2025)

[T2, W:12 – WD:56, (Td:4)*].

Dear Diary,

    I ended up falling asleep on the couch. I couldn't see much getting up to try and find my way to the bed. I could 'Guess-timate' that it was about 5 AM. I could hear the animals making noise outside, closing up the windows. Daddy came up early. I got up and hurried down to Curepe with him. I was telling him about the timesheet day being today, and I had no idea how to find the Waterfront address for OJT submissions. Riding and walking down to school was alright.

    As soon as I walked into the staffroom, Mel called me and said that Jeanice wanted to speak to me. I went to rest my bag, use the washroom and then went to speak to her. She said that she had to go to Port of Spain that evening, so she would be taking the timesheets for submission. I told her that mine just had to get stamped. It was stamped and placed on my desk.

    As soon as I was done, I went back to the office to see how many papers I was able to get printed. I was able to get three. Then I had to go back to the office to eat my pies. Someone was speaking about fire. I sat by the same desk and ate them. Since I did not have my dish, I reused one of the ream papers to rest the food on as if it were a suhari leaf. At least the room was quiet enough to rest for a few minutes.

    When I got back into the staffroom, the meeting was wrapping up. I had to call Mel and find out where the papers that were left on the desk earlier that morning were. She said that the test was in progress and that I would have to go and take over from Mr Peters, who had begun it in 2F for me already. When I checked over the time, it was still very early. The wait was truly a long one. The children got restless and tired. At some point, I decided to take up the papers at 12:30 so that I could head back to work in the office.

    The printing works began to continue. Roberts was in the Indera office writing in the attendance book. At the same time, Mrs Santana came in from the VP Office door and spoke with me about the test paper. Roberts tried to do the explaining, which was not correct. Miss came back a bit later in the evening to consult with me about the paper. I went through the email with her to make sure that the paper was the correct one being printed.

    When we realised the cover page she brought was at home, I told her that I could always cut the sheet with scissors. This was done later in the evening. For my second-to-last exam, the printer crashed at least six times. I think I was getting tired. Once that set of scripts was finished printing, I did the fixtures and then moved to the printer inside.

Daryl Zion M. Ali

(7:17 am – 5:58 pm)