Date for Entry: (Tuesday 09 January 2024)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Saturday 20 January 2024)
[T2, W:02 – WD:06,
(Td:6)*].
** Gifts picture
Dear Diary,
This morning, I
woke up at 2.30 a.m. I had a long night wrapping the rest of the gifts for
teachers last night. I accidentally threw my bottle of rubbing alcohol on the
table. The cap was not found. Strangely enough, it was nowhere around the table
or around the floor where it fell. Candice and Amika's gift will have to be
wrapped and brought to school another time.
Dr. Blandon
alone was with me in the office. I went to the staff room until the second
period. It was too noisy in the staff room, so I left for the library.
Thankfully, the library was empty and quiet. I had a big fight to get to do the
introduction with my sleepiness. It was a very long fight to get the
introduction to my music theory handbook completed.
I left halfway
into Mrs. Santana's class in there to go and deliver the gifts. I delivered Miss
Mary and Miss “Alicia's” gifts first and then went to Block C. Miss Chote was
conducting a meeting there, and I handed out the gifts on the empty tables.
Hopefully, when the teacher arrived, they would have gotten their gift. Ms
Patel said that she had misplaced the test paper I gave her last term.
I was told that
some of the teachers in Block K had moved out of that staffroom for health
safety. “Choo-Choo” was the first to get her gift. Ms. Tia was in the corner
eating her lunch. It smelled like curry and talking on her phone. I went back
to the conference room, and Ms. Macmillan was there. I kept the candle gifts in
a white bag and the chocolates in a green cloth bag.
I went back to
the music room for the last two periods and the Form 4 students were already there
practising their ensemble pieces. It seemed as if they were working on that all
through lunchtime. They were working on the “Engine Room” that Miss Roberts arranged.
I waited for everyone to return to the music room, and they decided to continue
working on the same ensemble piece. They did not work on solos because not
everyone worked with their music, and not everyone was prepared. Some of them
had instruments that they needed to bring from home.
This evening,
when the school closed, I did not stay back to close up the music room. Ms.
Pope thanked me in the office, and she said it made her feel very special. When
I asked, she said that she left it by her desk and waited for Mrs. Brown to
come to school. I met Shiva on my way back to the office before meeting Ms.
Pope, and he walked with me saying that I was making him feel special just
because I had a gift for him. He took it, and he left on his way out of the
compound.
I saw the
student boy from yesterday, but he didn't hear me calling him to collect the
score that I had made a photocopy of. Before Ms. Jones signed to leave the
evening, she gave me back the play I had asked her to check out for me since
November 2022. It was in a brown envelope. I did not bother to travel home with
the other four project-bonded plays that I had on my desk.
I went home,
slept again in the evening, and had forgotten to do the revised edition of the
timetable for jazz. I had forgotten to do the revised edition of the timetable
for “Jess”.
Daryl
Zion M. Ali
(7:33
am – 3:53 pm)
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