Date for Entry: (Wednesday 11 September 2024)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Sunday 15 September 2024)
[T1, W:02 – WD:08,
(Td:6)*].
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Dear Diary,
For both Daddy
and I, we had a late sleep, late waking, and late get up. He had to knock on my
window a second time. My four eyelids were swollen again. Thought I would have
gotten to the staff room way late. Not many teachers were there still. A lot of
people were watching me with my umbrella in my hand walking down 6th Avenue. I
was greeted by “Mr. Haynes” again as we walked down to a school.
I got my entry
for yesterday completed first before eating. Miss Gittens told me her hair was
tied back up when I mentioned how it matched mine. She went with Miss Greenaway
to take roll. There was confusion about religious instruction for today, but
Mr. Pierre said that it would begin on Friday. A few of the instructors had to
leave after coming out of school.
Shiva was trying
to make conversation with me. He saw me writing in the logbook and wondered
what was inside of it. It was a while since Miss Roberts came back to school.
The School Supervisor 3, Dr. Lubian-Batiste, was here in our staff room. It was
good to see her again. It reminded me of Mr. Persad and the teacher's leave
form.
There was a long
wait for 3rd period to come. I was remembering the 1-8 challenges that “Jess”
was doing with the children. We had a class with 2F after. It was very nice to
see “Ravin” again as he greeted me and “Pablo” too. 2L and 2M had no teachers
with them. We went through the test paper for questions 1-2 before “Jess” went
on to the numbers challenge to break. There were 7 minutes before recess.
Donna said that
she found I was not talking as much again. Somehow the holiday nightmare was
written on my facial expression. Jess and Roberts were speaking about the
school song and the Panama dance competition. They were talking about sitting
in with the form 6 students when they come to school when she would be absent
from the country. I wasn't sure what to expect, but I hope that God bless “Jess
“with ideas as to how to carry on class with them. Mrs Libert was given a picture of the notice for the spraying tomorrow.
During the
recess, Mr. Charles announced that the Clerk of Works responsible for air
conditioning was there. I couldn't sit there to listen to “Jess” and the others
with their big noise. I went up to the library instead and sorted out all the
WI and NF books that were within the 900s. There were a lot of books in the
970s. Two large tables were used up to do the sorting and 1 circular table. At some point too a form
6 couple was helping me. They abandoned me at some point and one girl came to
help at the end.
At 1.03 pm I
finally sat back down in the office behind my desk. I heard the sound of a
different woman's voice as I was writing in my journal. I knew she was not a
ministry worker with the SS3. As she spoke again it was Miss Paul that I
recognized. I helped her carry her cabinet belongings to her car while Riley
and “Mr. Danclare” were assisted. The two of us spoke a while before she left
the compound. It was strange how I thought of her in the car this morning with
Daddy carrying me to Curepe and she came to school today.
Everyone in the
staffroom was told that Friday would be no school for the mosquitoes spraying.
Class for the Form 4 students began in the hall. The students were given an
exercise to write an introduction about themselves for their SBA and were given
another exercise to start planning questions for their interview with either
the composer or the other assignment.
After that,
notes were given for elements of music and genres were cut off at the end of
class. (See logbook for the note-taking.) The students had to type up their
introduction and then were asked to work on more questions for their
performance analysis or analysis of a live concert. No one at all was planning
to do the eight advertisements.
I went back
upstairs to the library to get a picture of the 900s that I had sorted today.
Thankfully Miss Alexander was still there and she allowed me to take a picture.
As Miss was about to leave she said to come with her for a ride in Mr.
Raymond's car. On the highway, a heavy shower of rain came down on us. It
caused us to get stuck in traffic behind UWI. They were heading in my
direction.
Daddy had to
come up afterwards because I had forgotten my keys in the house. I took an hour
to myself on the couch and got up at 5 p.m. until 8 in the night to work on “Right
By My Side” and thank God it was completed. Even better news was that the other
arrangement “Another Day in Paradise” strumming pattern for the verse was done
over. And the chorus was taken. This song too finished within 45 minutes by a
nice copy and paste. I was so glad to get both songs accomplished. Plenty of nights
of work were put in and over 5 days were taken to work on them.
The “Another Day
in Paradise” arrangement was not so hot for me, it would be workable for the
instructor and the performer. I got levels of games completed before bed.
Whisper is making me start to feel like the previous times when I wanted to
delete it and move away. I might just end up leaving it again for a fifth time.
Not sure what the app Discord is like.
I saw Jasmine
message me a reminder to check out the worksheet-making website. I told her
last night, the previous night, but it was the zeal to get both steel pan
arrangements done tonight was the feeling. Hopefully tomorrow night I will take
up the opportunity to check out the worksheet website. She had also asked me to
work on two of the other folk songs for steelpan that the Form 2 students had
reviewed last academic year. I hope that maybe at the weekend I will be able to
get one of them completed or started on for the most.
LINK(S):
Daryl
Zion M. Ali
(7:46 am – 3:30 pm)
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