Date for Entry: (Friday 26 January 2024)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Friday 26 January 2024)
[T2, W:04 – WD:18,
(Td:6)*].
Dear Diary,
I got a Valsayn
in with “Chess”. We had a new Maxi Driver this morning. I could see that on his
screen there was an Arabic marking on the top. He told us that he was swinging
in to get some diesel gas. It was the new gas station on the right going
downwards to the Southern Main Road. The gas station was opposite Cap’s Bar. I
saw “Korick” waiting for his passengers to fill up the Maxi first. He had on a
very pretty silver chain and a black shirt with his cap. The hair was tied as
usual. It looked very nice.
While entering
the office I had my first pie first and then saw Nickell sitting in the office
when Mrs Brown pulled him in. He was suspended and could not be allowed on the
compound. He was therefore under ‘house arrest’ for the day and could not be in
the rest of the school except for the toilet until his parent or guardian came
to collect him. This incident was a fight that was videotaped. He was joined by
another student who was a part of that event.
I saw all of the
Mitchell House members outside in front of the compound with the Mitchell flag
flying high. Dr. Blandin had already come to tell me that Miss Roberts was not
coming to school. Before she could finish, I told her that I would be occupied
in the savannah across the street for today's sporting activities. It was only
after school that I learned that today’s sporting activities were field events.
As soon as I was
finished talking with Dr. Blandin I came back to continue my journal entry.
Miss Roberts pulled up into the office to sign where I was writing this entry,
to sign by the desk where teachers would sign their attendance. She stole the
pen and brought it back as I was finishing the sentence.
I went up to the
art room with my cap on my head. It was back to front and many of the students
seemed to like seeing me wear the cap back to front. I had to give Miss Gittins
a document. However, she had forgotten the marches payments form so I had to
print her a temporary sheet for her to use throughout the day in case marchers
came to make payments.
On my way down
from the art room I met “Jess” in the corridor outside of the staffroom. She
said she liked the outfit and I did a dance to go with it. She laughed. I did
not meet up with the Mitchell members again only until I met the guard boot.
They were all lined up and were walking over to the savannah across the street.
We went by a tent and soon Miss Patel came to ask if I had preferred to do
recording for Discuss or Javelin. I chose Javelin.
Moving from one
tent I was sent to another. However, they told me that there was a tent on the
far eastern side of the field where the Javelin was to be taken. Under that
tent, there were three tables and three chairs. A light rain had sent me to the
middle at some point of the day but it stopped. It was just a light touch.
Everyone this morning thought that the dark clouds in the sky would bring heavy
rain to cancel the practice for the day.
I ended up
spending the entire day there in their field working with one Leacock girl and
one Farrell girl using a very large measuring table for both Javelin and
Cricket bowl. There were three sets of events. Javelin for senior boys and
girls, Javelin for intermediate boys and girls and Cricket Bowl for junior boys
and junior girls. Juniors were not given Javelins. There was a great gentleman
named Mr. Hall was the referee for the Javelin in all six sections while I was
the recorder of scores for all six events. I saw Crystal doing the score
recordings for Discuss.
During the
Javelin for the senior boys, there was a very surprising score with many
obtaining Fouls. For the junior boy’s cricket bowl throwing we had some
difficulty with the measuring tape being tangled and mathematical calculations
had to be done. Marking of the measurement of the ground had to be done in
pieces and then tallied to get the score. Mr. Hall mentioned that the length of
the students throwing was very good but the technique was not there.
There was
trouble and commotion to get names. House members had to remove names. I did
not bother to use the names provided to me seeing that all the names had to be
changed and some were correct. The games also started late which resulted in a
late ending. I chose to let the house captains come to sign the names in. The
students got the first practice and then came over under the tent to give their
names. I recall “GG” stopping by. We had “Jess” big mouth for Leacock and Miss
Harris’ one was the loudest in my ear too.
At the end of
the games, I remained in the same tent with Miss Pope and Miss Patel. We were
all lining up with Javid. Javid was reeling back in the other measuring tape we
got that came in a roll. He brought his truck to load up the remaining
equipment since Andy was taking forever to come. Miss Pope and Miss Patel went
by snow cone. It was only into the half of the seventh period that I was able
to enter the compound and go to the washroom. I had held up for a long time and
the pants I was wearing today were very tight.
I met some of
the marchers in the art room. While they discussed their work, I went outside into
the fan zone to write out my entry. At 2.30 pm the marchers came out to the
multipurpose court to have a quick practice before the shuttle came. I heard
that some of them mentioned on their way to the court that the shuttle came
earlier than expected yesterday.
When I finished
with my entry, I did not bother to do any writing for topics for the textbook
today so I went back into the art room. Miss Gittens told me that Mr Reid
decided to call quits when no marchers were present for lunchtime practice. I
went home and Miss Mustapha had messaged us in the marcher’s chat saying that Mr
Reed had decided to come back on Sunday for their practice in the savannah
across the compound. I hope that the practice worked out well.
Other matters
occurred on the baby and other issues for the day. It was a very long and
tiring day. I fell asleep in the car waiting for Daddy. He had to come and
spend a third night because tidying up the house was not completed. Unfortunately, there were no images taken of today and Miss Patel took back all the forms from me. I was not able to recreate any copies for archiving into my journal.
Daryl
Zion M. Ali
(7:58
am – 4:52 pm)
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