Date for Entry: (Thursday 30 November 2023)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (December 2023)
[T1, W:13 – D:60, (Td:4)*].
Dear Diary,
I got to Valsayn
with one Georgian boy. One driver behind was impatient today. I met a white Christmas
tree at the side of my desk. It took me the way all day long. I got signed in
and my time sheet was filled out before time. Didn’t know if to go over to 2L
or wait by my desk.
After waiting,
Dr Blandin called me into her office and asked if I was willing to supervise the
second session today for Food and Nutrition. It would be a two-hour exam
starting from 11:00 AM. Since it was Miss Daniels’ exam, I decided to take it since
she did a favour for my department during the previous term’s final exam. I
began to feel left out because I was beginning to hear that there was going to
be a staff meeting during the time of the exam.
I went over to Block
K immediately with my bag and met Miss Jones in the lobby area. She was waiting
to see who was coming for supervision. I got the 2L papers from her and got the
class to start one time. She said that the exam was to be for an hour and a
half and that it was right to end earlier if everyone else was over early.
There was a long wait for six people to finish. During that long wait, five
students were asked to use the washroom and returned. We heard Miss Jones from
2F behind the wall trying to settle the children during the exam.
At the end of
the exam, at 11:55 PM, I asked the students to put their writing materials back
into their pockets and vacate the building with their bags once their paper was
taken. I collected papers by the columns. Only Seline remained. Miss Jones saw
the class was empty but she jumped seeing Seline remaining to check through her
work and went back outside. It reminded me of myself during the ABRSM exams at
George’s Form 1 classroom. She only needed three more minutes and then Miss
Jones came to collect the papers from me. Seemed as though 2M had already finished
theirs.
During recess, I
went to the washroom and got some parts of my desk cleared up. I had already
notified Miss Daniels at the doors of Block K this morning that I would do the supervision
got the exam. I went to her in the staffroom and she showed me the papers. I
took them into my bags after she ran through what was supposed to be done. When
it was 10:45, I went to her to let her know that it was time to go over to the
classroom. Shwe wrote out the time to start and end on the board and
distributed the papers. One student was found cheating.
A lot of noise occurred
outside by Form 1s and 2s. There was a fight I saw too from out the large
windows. I saw that the staff meeting was going on still while closing the door
properly. The test was over in the last thirty minutes before the full duration.
Everyone handed up their papers. The staff meeting was still going on.
I wanted to go
in but “Mr Williams” found me on the side and asked me for the recorder
assessment. A lot of Form 1 students were coming in the background. I had him
sit by the white bench with my book stand and they waited in the corridor. I
saw Miss Harris coming late with the food that she was asking for people to buy
the curry.
The Third
session started sometime after. I was finished late and then “Reeba” came to
the office. He told me that they were short on my two exam papers. The machine was
slow and then they mixed up some of the papers. I had to get it stapled. I gave
“Reeba” my stapler when the office stapler crashed on itself and praise God
Crystal helped me staple some. My head was all over the place. Miss Harris then
asked “Reeba” to give Miss Roberts her box of food.
As we left the
office, he went running and the box fell out of his hands. I went hurrying like
Mama doing the corridor. I couldn’t run that quick like him and got to Block K.
One of the Form 3 boys that I had a babysitter when Roberts did not come to
school said, “Sir, dah tes’ is garbage!” In truth, I did not even get to see what
the Form 3 paper looked like. I just hope he studied enough.
To my horrid surprise,
the students in 1F were not there except for the students who were doing the
arts. I wondered where they could have been. The door for 1L was closed and Mr
Bain was inside. I looked in 1M and it was scary seeing all those children
inside. Miss Gittens was marking papers by the teacher’s table. I was giving
her the extra papers. She said that she would watch over all of the Form 1s and
that I could go and grade papers if I had any to do.
I went back to
the office and sat in the Block K staffroom to do so. “Mr Marlon” came back later
and got one class finished while waiting for Miss to finish. Some nice
conversations occurred. Everyone filed out of the room at the end of school and
Dana came in later. She got her curry. I had to warn her about the break in the
box before it fell. Seemed as if Miss had forgotten me after the exam.
I went back to
Block C when my bags were packed and went back to grading papers. She told me
that she had to go and make a sign for someone quickly and it did take some
time to make. It was nice to be among the teachers in both staffrooms for the
day. Donna was there with us late into the evening before she left. She was organising
to purchase food from a catering that Susan was buying for her Form class. She offered
to buy lunch for me on the day of the class parties but I told her she didn’t
have too. She had insisted.
Daryl
Zion M. Ali
(7:58
am – 4:59 pm)
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