Date for Entry: (Thursday 13 June 2024)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Thursday 25 July 2024)
[T2, W:10 – WD:45,
(Td:3)*].
Dear Diary,
As soon as I got
onto Lockhart Street this morning, a Georgian girl was heading into the maxi in
front. Only one by the door was needed. I went in the maxi behind. As soon as I
greeted the driver and sat down, it was “Arthur”. It was the first time in the
year that I had ridden with him.
Dr. Allison met
me in the paved walkway heading into the school area to Building A. She said
she was still very busy and that she hoped to get more of the latest and
absences done for May of 2024. I got to sign in and went to put my bags in the
staff room. Somehow they were not having any morning assembly today.
When I finished
breakfast, I went to 1M. Susan was still in the classroom. She allowed me in at
her exit. Then the children lined up and we went down to the music room. “Jess”
followed us from behind on her phone. They were given the notes on rest and
that was still on the board from yesterday. I spent the full four periods
trying to finish all of my entries for yesterday.
I went to get
half of the 1F students outside of their classroom. The second half had a food
and nutrition exam that was happening in the homeroom. It seemed as if they
were dismissed by Mrs. Allen Brown the way they were talking so much. This
class had a dynamic session and listening exercises to do.
I left the music
room at recess time to chat with Miss Mary for a while before heading over to
Block C to count the incomplete test papers with missing sheets of paper. “Jess”
gave me a question when she said that the test paper was not saying anything
about music. I told her and pointed to her on the test paper saying that it had
my name on it. She laughed and went on her way to Miss Poop. The two of them
made plenty of noise in the staff room.
I got the
calculations done while chatting with Mrs Greenaway and stood under the tree.
The breeze was nice there. I saw students walking about. It then occurred to me
that I don't walk or go anywhere far. I went to see the back where the sports were
going on. A cricket game between 2F and 1L was in session. I remained there
with the children from the fifth period until the end of lunchtime. I was very
proud of Ameer for leading this class team.
By the time I
walked out of Block C, “Jess” was at the start of the corridor with the
children. She sent me to the office for a copy of the Form 1 and 2 exam papers.
I met Miss Gittens there too when I asked for the permission slip for copies
and test papers to Miss Mohammed. Miss Gittens said that “Jess” had the two of
us running around for the same thing.
The rest of the class time went by so quickly. I was shocked. There were now students who missed the assessments and were tested first and she did the listening. Only two of the tracks were played and then it was home time. The class was kept back for making noise to clean the room. The air conditioning in the staff room felt good. It felt like forever trying to finish up this journal entry all day. And I won yesterday too. I decided to sit in Block A and do the entry before reaching Block C. Miss Gittens got the missing sheets for the exam paper and began to insert them herself.
Tonight I had
class with “Ash” Gans from 7 PM to 9.28 PM. We did exercises 1 to 3 on pages 10
to 11 in the Orange Grade 2 Eric Taylor book. There was a lot of explaining for
the exercise too, with recognizing the major scale with a given key signature.
The majority of his answers were correct, thankfully. It was good to see that
he was also able to work them out after the explanations.
I saw the issue
with exercise 3, but once the example was discussed, he was able to figure out
all the remaining exercises. We had a drawing session with a tenor pan that is 45
years old and smart. I sent the image over WhatsApp for him to copy in his
book.
I started to
feel sick afterwards trying to make a date page for the children in the Sunday
school. It was not easy at all with the hours it required. The document took me
a long time to finish in three hours. I had to go to bed immediately because I
had pain and my head began to hurt me as well. I hope that the print can be
made tomorrow for church.
Daryl
Zion M. Ali
(7:03 am – 3:51 pm)
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