Date for Entry: (Tuesday 26 September 2023)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (September 2023)
[T1, W:04 – D:16, (Td:4)*].
**Registration for the
CXC Music conference.
Dear Diary,
This morning I
had some time to wait at home. I got up earlier than usual because I was so
excited to get to DCFA. It’s been a long time since I left the school (Friday
13th March 2019) on the day of the first recorded case of COVID-19
in Trinidad. Getting to the Cheeseman Building I was mistaken for a worker. They asked me to
help them carry in some cases of water. (The time of arrival is the time written below along with the time of departure from the compound.)
Only one lady was
there and I saw Mr Sharma coming down the steps soon after. We were both given
the attendance to sign. I thought it would have been a big, long-form it was a simple
row. They took us to Lecture Room 3 and we helped them step up the classroom
area. There was a long wait to start due to technical difficulties. Some familiar
faces were there. I was surprised that the cell phone I got during my Degree
still remembered the Wi-Fi.
Mr Sharma did
the first half of the conference which was grading the conference. We learned
that grading the students’ composition too high or too low can get a teacher
kicked out of the CXC system and they would have to go through an interview
with the Curriculum Officer or some other official concerning the marks. Everyone
was split into different groups and had to assess a composition. I think some
of them were done by Mr Sharma. We had to look at some criteria. Some of the
groups were giving some shocking low marks but we understood once we saw the
score.
A recess was
given after Mr. Sharma’s half of the presentation was completed. I met John
from Tunapuna and I also met Andrea from TIPICA in the restroom area. Andrea
and I went upstairs because the toilets were not working. Strange. I used to
use the restroom upstairs because of the overpopulation below.
The second half
of the conference dealt with timetabling. For this part of the session, I was
sitting in the very last row of the Lecture Room and John was sitting next to
me with Mr Barry. Surprising to see Miss Roberts decide to sit in the same chair
from earlier, lol.
The lady was extremely
good. I think I would have liked her as a teacher in my lifetime. She seemed
like a real teacher. She drew a flat triangle connecting the four words History
to the top, Theory below, Practical to the right, and SBA to the left. My hand
was very tired rushing down all of the notes that the lady was speaking. I felt
like the back row was better so no one would see all the notes I was writing
down like mad. There were seven pages in total.
In the end, it
took me a while to leave. A lot of the audience left the compound quickly. I met
Mr Roger after a while. I didn’t see Mr Reed or Mr Sheldon in the Festival
Library. I met some of my older friends Melissa, Isiah, Marsha and Marissa.
They left and I remained in the corridor. I sat there waiting for Daddy to come
and tried to work out rhythm exercises for conducting my Form 2s. It was a
blessing. I thanked Miss Paul again after returning home that evening after
Bible study.
Daryl
Zion M. Ali
(7:54
am – 12:50 pm)
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