Date for Entry: (Thursday 12 October 2023)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (October 2023)
[T1, W:06 – D:28, (Td:3)*].
Dear Diary,
I arrived late
to school this morning. Got to the music room feeling sick. Miss Roberts was
not parking up when I got there a long while after. I forgot that she told me
on Day 3 she would have the Form 3s in there. I went over to wait a while. I
had my pie in the ‘lobby’ area watching 2L students with their kiss cake
surprise for Miss Gittens before they walked in.
As soon as I was
finished, I went back to get the keyboard. It was heavy but I managed. Mr Bain
was still taking a long to finish roll attendance. I even had no attendance reregisters
in my folder so I took off running to the office and back. I was completely wet
down in my track pants and T-shirt.
The class began
late. I left the keyboard on two vacant desks to back because there was a plug
situated there. Sadly, we did not get to use it because class finished two
minutes into the third period. This call was given the recorder lesson with a demonstration of posture and also fingering for the pitches G, A, and B. The same
lesson was done immediately afterwards in 1F. However, because of the late
start again, I finished three minutes late into recess.
During recess
time, I returned to 1M and asked a boy named Rahul to take the names of students
who didn’t have a personal copy of the workbook. I remembered as soon as I got
to 1F. Thankfully with the rush, a nice girl reminded me to take attendance.
Some of the Muslim students who could not do music were in the room with us. I had to yell at one and was still confused as to how that could be. I
will have to do my research. Got my keyboard back to the music room with the accompaniment
of Mr Smyth from 1L.
I went to give
Miss Gittens her copy of Miss Roberts's exam results for the last academic year. She
forgot there was an MMT meeting when I reminded her. We went down the corridor
and they told us that it would be postponed to another date. She sat with me in
the office and we chatted for a while. I shared a piece of my second pie with her
and I showed her the folders that I got for the Form 2s. She gave me a laugh
and she said she liked my organisation.
When She left, I
had asked for the Form 2 books to be printed. I had labels to stick on
them with the Form 2 children's names and their Form class in red ink marker,
which was done yesterday evening after school. The safety officer took the
Baptist bell. There was a fire drill. I saw Miss Patel with a handheld mic. The
school was evacuated. I stayed with 2F. This time around we did not have any
roll books. Some of the MTS were hurrying the children and the teachers were
taking their time too going up in the back past the art room. I went back to
Block K with 2F and explained how to do the note tree.
Returning to the
office, I got the labels stuck on and walked over immediately back to Block K.
I have Avish to distribute 2F and Ansar to hand out the books for 2L. Everyone
in 2M had purchased copies of the books. It was lunchtime after leaving Block
K. I sat there in the office and waited to see if “Yash” would come by. He didn’t
come. Jessie too and the girl didn’t come for the review. How I knew, they
would have forgotten.
Miss Laurance
came and had a nice chat with me until Form 1 came to do a make-up test. She
preferred to sit on the pregnancy chairs in the ‘waiting area’ so I lent her my
table to use. She got 37 of 40 points. The hall was locked so I couldn’t get to
practice my “Carol of the Bells” piece that Mr Sharma sent me. They had some
kind of choir practice. Just before the end of lunch, Rahul and his colleague from 1M came into the office to see me. He brought back the sheet of paper I gave
him and there were two names. He asked me if I would be able to tell him about
his mark on the coursework exam and I did. He seemed happily relieved, lol.
At 1:22pm I was already
in the music room. Another girl came to ask if she could do the music exam but
I told her that I would only be free until after school. I told her to ask her
parents if they would be able to let her do it after school and it seemed
impossible. I will wait for Monday just for her. I decided to go to 1L in their
Home Room to have class. Students were leaving for their football game in
the evening.
For the remainder
of that double period, I corrected the homework on the board. The students were
asked to take the listening exercise that they notated in class and transcribe
it in music manuscript books. Some of the students did surprisingly well. I did
not tell them what I did. I wanted to see what they would do with it since it
was their first experience of trying to notate some music. The fourth exercise
was sung by me after writing out the solfege and labelling G, A and B on Sol,
La and Ti. The test papers were returned and I went through the hard questions
in detail. A lot of them were absent today.
Once the session
was finished, I sat on the teacher’s chair and it took me a very long time to
leave the building. I couldn’t believe how tired I was. Tok me a very long
while to get up and leave. I packed up my bag slowly and the cough all day was
hard to battle. The children heard me cough and struggle with it. But thank you, Lord Jesus, for the successful day, in the Mighty Name of Jesus.
I got to the
office and asked for the Form 1 booklet to be printed. Only twelve books were
needed on my list. I had the labels written up, and booklets stapled and stuck
them. I will keep these for when I have class with the Form 1s. While waiting
in the staffroom that evening for Susan and “Maria” I fell asleep. Susan had to
wake me up when she was leaving to go in the car. I got home and did a lot of
whole before my Spanish. I was so tired that I fell asleep on myself during
Spanish lessons. Tomorrow is TTUTTA conference. We will not have school.
Daryl
Zion M. Ali
(8:00
am – 4:27 pm)
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