Hillview College's Faith & Confidence Service (2012)

 Date for Entry: (Friday 27th April, 2012)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Sunday 13th June, 2021)

Dear Diary,

    Today was the Service of Faith and Confidence for the Class of 2012 in Hillview College Auditorium. The Steel Ensemble had to play the National Anthem to start off the function/service. Afterwards, we had to play the School's Anthem at the end. This was a really fun and exciting service. I saw our Reverends from church and felt amazed at the way this experience was.

Link(s):

1. Hillview College's Faith & Confidence Service (2012) - Program.

 

Daryl Zion M. Ali

Morvant Police Station Youth Group

 Date for Entry: (Unknown/Forgotten; Wednesday)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Saturday 12th June, 2021)

Dear Diary,

    Today was the last day of the test for Form 2. Mom had come to school to pick me up around half two in the afternoon. We walked down the hill on the road to get home. She bought me some Chinese Butterfly Chicken and then we went down to Mount Hope to the Sewing Room to meet Aunty Hermi, with the keyboard.

    Of course, I was being pulled around by mommy without knowing the plans and what we were going to do, except that I was to perform. The three of us went down to Laventille on a Bus over the Bus Route. I felt shame that we had to pay for two seats for the piano to rest on and for the tenor pan to stay there on the ground.

    We met up Precious at the Gas Station before heading off. Luckily, we got a taxi and headed on up to the Movant Police Station. Little did I know, that I was going to play for the Movant Police Youth Group. Mom and Aunty Hermi was going there to teach the children to make a craft and other things I did not know about.

    The children enjoyed the music from the piano. I mostly played for them Titanic and a few others from my Xylophone project I had to do in Form. It was nice to meet their Youth Coordinator, who loved the curtain rod xylophone. She wanted to try it in front of the members and she wanted me to teach her song so I gave her the notes of "Sanctuary," which I had played for them earlier. She seemed very happy at the end.

    By the time the lady had given out the announcements, about a concert and a guest coming to visit them I knew that I was gonna be stuck in that too. Knowing mommy, she will be pushing me to go back and play music there. 

*** For this music event in my life I'm sorry that no images were taken. 

 

Daryl Zion M. Ali

ABRSM Theory Examination (Grade 3)

 Date for Entry: (Unknown/Forgotten)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Saturday 12th June, 2021)

Dear Diary,

    Today I went to the University of the Southern Caribbean (U.S.C.) with the Steel Ensemble members in our school uniform. We were not attending school today. We were all going to write ABRSM’s Music Theory Exams. For me, I did Grade three that day. All of the others did Grade 1.

    I took every minute of the examination going through the paper. Miss Richardson was outside going through questions some of the students had. I was the last one of the Ensemble to come out. I went to the Stationary store afterwards to photocopy some music exam papers.

    When I got back home the lady at the store had done the copies badly. I noticed that the same bad feelings like a spirit with misery and conflict had come upon me as from the last exam experience. This spoiled the whole rest of my day. Few of the exam questions were very tricky. I hoped that the marks would be enough to award me a distinction.

(Update)

    Some months are doing the Grade three examination, the results sheet and the certificates came back. When I saw the overall score on my sheet I felt like my heart skipped two beats. It was merit. Just looking down at the Merit written on the certificate, made me feel as if I had failed the whole exam. I know Miss Richardson had to get me out of that thinking quickly because of how hard I was personally going down on myself.

    One wish of mine was that Miss Richardson could have given the certificates to Mr. Mahase to give them to us during the morning assembly instead of announcing the results alone. That might have felt nice and awarding.

 

Link(s):

1. ABRSM Grade 3 Results & Certificate

Daryl Zion M. Ali