Date for Entry: (Monday 15 May 2023)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Saturday 20 May 2023)
[T3, W:05 – D:21*,
(Td:03)*].
Dear Diary,
One Form Two
student was with me in the maxi this morning. No one was there in the office
when I got to school. I had breakfast in the kitchen and went off to 1M in
class with my stuff and the keyboard. I did the accidentals topic with them and
sometime into the early parts of the second period, I should get a call from
Miss Roberts. She sounded as if she had not gotten to the music room.
I looked out to
the car park from the window and her car was there (parked where it shouldn’t
be). She yelled me up on the phone because I did not carry the students to
the music room. When she was ready to get my explanation, I told her that my
time and the children’s time were taken up because of assembly and homeroom
time. It was as if I was supposed to apologise, which I did not do. I waited and
held the phone in and listened to the silence of her thinking. It took her six long
seconds to hang up.
Putting the
phone back into my pocket, I saw some of the students looking back at me.
Within four short seconds, I could see Miss Roberts in her yellow top barging
out the music room’s door and stamping her flat shoes. It was amazing that she
actually made the bend to go up to the building in the back. I had a feeling it
would have been Miss Gittens who was going to complain about me. It could not
have been to Miss Jones all the way down to the other side of the same building.
The students
looked at me watching that conversation from the front of the class while they finished
copying the note. When they asked me if I was all right, I did mention a short something
to them about the meeting taking place. They looked out the window too. Only
ten students handed up books.
I graded them
and handed them back by the end of lunchtime. I saw Isa smiling and waving at
me from within the Library. I could tell that they had literature when I asked
Dr Blandin permission to return the students’ books. I had copies for the students
that did not have the grade one exercise book. Isekel and I noticed that the PDF
pages of the grade one book were out of order.
For the rest of
the day, I had a forty per cent exam for semiquavers and beaming planned out. Did
some research in the staffroom to do a plan for a chart on staves. I also took
the time after school to clear my desk and relieve it of some clutter. Mrs.
Santana didn’t come today so we couldn’t chat.
That same
afternoon, I learned from Trishanna that Form 5 Music moderation was that same
day. I did not get an invitation but no biggie. She told me that she made a lot
of mistakes in the piece that she started to learn a few weeks ago. I had
helped her with the first section of it but did not meet her to work on it again.
On the way of
getting home, Kiel, Crystal and Jeanice were walking out. I accompanied them to
the main road and they wanted a maxi that could hold all of us. There was one
maxi that stopped with space for one. A taxi passed but they didn’t pay
attention.
When the second
maxi stopped and Crystal and I got in, there was space for only three. She got
out and I remained. I couldn’t keep up on that with them or I would remain
there or a while. We all met back up in Curepe and crossed the road to get to
the terminal side. Still very angered over Miss Roberts and her behaviour.
Daryl
Zion M. Ali
(7:58
am – 3:28 pm)
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