Date for Entry: (Monday 27 May 2024)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Monday 22 July 2024)
[T2, W:08 – WD:34,
(Td:4)*].
Dear Diary,
Over the weekend
the rain had flooded Ria's yard and her road was closed off. Alex had some car
trouble so sadly we could not have the meeting again. The performance in the church
went well. Daddy and I both fell back asleep and I got to church at 7:10 AM for
the most. It was still a long service but it went well.
This morning on Lockheart
Street “Mr. Gill” was in the front seat. The driver was “Marquise” and the back
seat passengers were angry that he swung up to the small gas station down the
road. Thankfully the road was easier to cross. No one was there in the office
either. Dr. Blandon was probably in the assembly. As soon as Miss Dana walked into
the office I heard the Principal asking her to hold the door open for her.
I had time to
pack for class except for breakfast. The assembly went through all of the first
period. Many of the teachers were now coming in also. We were not sure if the two
of us were going to the music room. Even “Jess” was late and coming out of her
car. We greeted each other seeing Miss Santana coming out of her car too.
I went down the
corridor for “Jess” to let me know if to bring the children to the room. She
said yes. It took some time for the children to get down to the music room.
They had to write out the G major scale along with the note on Indian classical
sargam. She did the discussion but there was no Wi-Fi in the classroom for the
playing of YouTube videos as examples.
I went back to
the staff room to get breakfast at recess time. I heard some surprise music
from Mr. Charles this morning. I hope the panadol that I gave him was good. Dr.
Blandon and I got the science and mathematics department section dates and
absences entered into the Excel document. There were still some teachers with
outstanding forms to submit.
I returned to
the staff room to fill out my timesheet in advance for this week's admission.
The brownies that Miss Dana brought were amazing. I forgot to take a picture of
it. It looked like Dr Blandon was on a query hunt when I returned. “Miss Evelyn”
from 1L was in the waiting area and at 12 as her exit form was being prepared.
“Jess” was also
waiting to see Dr. Blandon. She came and we had a review of numbers entered
while copying and pasting the Excel document into the Ministry's document. My
first attempt was a failed surprise. The result was R.E.F. and I forgot that
the tallied figures were from a formula. Copying and pasting had to be done
from values. Once I tried again it worked. Dr. Allison was very excited and had
a nice laugh. We got a large amount of entries inserted. About 13 teachers with
missing information to complete April 2024.
Mrs. Ramsingh
came and then we had food about MLA. I enjoyed the aroma of Mrs. Santana's
curry filling the air in the staff room. If I knew she was going to use hand
towels as a mat I would have given her two sheets of my newspaper. Lunchtime
was over too quickly.
I had to
remember to take two of them down to the room again. They were very noisy and
disruptive. I just had to shout. Praise God the notes from this morning were
still there so I did not have to write it over. I had them copy it and “Jess”
came in after. She asked me to go and get the speaker box. Some of the children
were dancing to the Sarugam music. Just gave me the singing to go through the G
major scale with arpeggio and it was very difficult. The room was too hot.
Finally, the
class came to an end. I got home to find excerpts for the lesson on dynamics. “Jess”
had suggested that one can be classical, pop and one can be local. I found one
from Adele, Skyfall. To find a local I was guided to Dr. Samaroo's “Song of Lopinot”
which I ended up conducting at UWI for an assessment and in the intermediate
ensemble. I was glad that she had no objections to the chosen pieces.
The rest of the
evening was taken to finding the chords for music transcriptions. Those chords
were to the song “The Battle Belongs to the Lord”. That night I had my birstol
board sheets counted. There were 53 sheets but I thought I had less than 50.
This other half will go to the APC library.
The green ones I
bought today will go to George's teachers and the other half of the pink 100
will go to the library also. The Bristol board sheets were folded, creased and
jotted. The lines will have to go in tomorrow in school. I ended up making a
baguette or popcorn for below deck after having five dark chocolate biscuits.
Daddy said it would be nice.
Daryl
Zion M. Ali
(7:43 am – 3:28 pm)
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