Date for Entry: (Tuesday 12 March 2024)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Saturday 04 March 2024)
[T2, W:11 – WD:46,
(Td:3)*].
Dear Diary,
Today Daddy
bought me a jam tart by the bakery near the bus route in addition to the single
pie he bought from Breakfast Express. The pie was bought from a doubles vendor
who wanted the other colleague to finish their story about some girl they were
talking about.
I had a good
laugh about it in my mind but it was cut short when I got onto Lockhart Street.
The driver was pushy and a lady got out because of his behaviour. He sent me
into a seat had someone sit by the footrest and squished all three of us in the
front row.
As I got to the
pavement to walk into the UTT compound, Mr Latren called me into his bus and
handed me a longer black phone. He asked that I drop it off at the
administration office. Thankfully Ms. Ali was there in the office to receive
it. I hope that someone comes back to collect it. Mr. Martin and I signed and
left in the office.
It felt nice to
take my bags and go down to Blockgate's staff room. I sat with Nia and Shoba to
eat my breakfast pie. They were also eating breakfast at the same time. I got a
cell phone call from Jess on WhatsApp to get 1M to come down to the music room.
They too had their C major practical as 1L. The group was not ready for
anything in terms of submissions for their coursework assignments. The first
group I took outside of the music room was ready to try and submit. The other
two groups had nothing ready and didn't bother. I had to go and get 1F right
after that class was over.
The Muslim boys
remained and told me that they were fasting. I still brought them over for Jess
to determine what would happen. She did not let them go to the library but kept
them outside the music room in their back. There was some commotion with the
attendance sheet.
I helped Brad
draw the low C tenor pan in his notebook to practice the scale, and Riley was
confused. He took Hussain's book and came to me too. Only one group was able to
do a recording of their soca song. However, the Wi-Fi connection was not good,
and the children did not get to do their submission into the Google Classroom.
At recess time, I went to the washroom and
immediately got down to work. Until the end of lunchtime for our evening class,
I was able to get the lesson part finished and exercises to compose after
school. I had a nice chat with Mrs. Santana and Mr. Charles while doing work in
the staff room. Miss Jess met me outside Block C's staff room. I got to Block A
and there was an incident in 1F. Mrs. Pope’s voice was heard all through the
corridors.
It took a very
long time for Shiva to come to take his evening attendance. I did not want to
enter the classroom until he had come and taken attendance. Some children were
more restless than in the previous 1F class. Some of them ran off down the
corridor and ended up leaving me just before school had left again. Hopefully,
one group will get their work done. She came back and did recordings with two
groups. “Mr. Khan” and “Mr. Samlal’s” group chose a dancehall beat. However,
they were asked to do over the recording with a soca beat.
She left the
class with a few students to do practical tests that they had missed the
previous day. The troublemaker Aliasah came back and asked him if he could come
back to class. I sent him off in anger and shut the door in their faces. The
door went right in and I continued to sit back and supervise the children. I
took the time to start the lesson on ambition and questions were also composed.
This was all completed before the end of class. The children were able to leave
5 minutes before school was over for the shuttle.
They had one of
the lobby chairs in the Admin office placed back at my desk. I felt so angry to
pack up everything and have them migrate over to Block A for the rest of our
stay at Falzine. Sitting for a while in the staff room, Shiva said that Jess
had yelled him up because he had sent the children off to the library instead
of letting her decide what to do. At least it was like he got a taste of what
it's like being in that boat.
On the contrary,
I did tell them to let them know if I missed that they were going to the
library. Maybe their misbehaving attitudes too did not make them want to go and
tell Miss. She left sometime after I got back in the Block C staff room and asked
me to make another book just like I did for St. George's College Song with the
other two national songs This is Our Flag and Our Nation's Dawning for Steel
Pan.
This was
something I did not want to do because it was not something I chose to do.
However, with time I would like to see if I would be able enough to come up
with those two books. As we were waiting, Mrs. Dreykeran came in and told us
that there was a fire in the AV room above the principal's office. She sat in
the sitting area by the couches and ate her Mario's burger. I started to laugh
and she called me wicked. I didn't care.
We started to
pack up immediately and left the compound early. That same evening I had class
with Ash and because he did not do his homework we had to take the entire two
hours doing the homework and correcting it.
Daryl
Zion M. Ali
(7:49 am – 3:37 pm)
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