Date for Entry: (Wednesday 25 September 2024)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Friday 29 November 2024)
[T1, W:04 – WD:16,
(Td:2)*].
Dear Diary,
Yesterday was our
Republic Day holiday. Thankfully I got to school on time. Had to help Mel send
a document to Power House right as I got in. Jess spoke with me while I was
eating. Seems like she was leaving right after the Form 2 class this morning.
She asked if I was alright being with the Form 4s and I said yes. “Mr Marlon”
and “Hams” matched. I know “AJ” would be in green again.
Last night the
scales for “Yisu Ni Kaha” were shared with the students as PDFs in the Form 4
chat. I had just seen a message from Jess mentioning the funeral service. Right
after finishing that sentence, Donna passed by and said, “Is early in de
morning so, Sir does have something tuh write in dah book?” She then turned to
Mr Raymond.
I went out at
8:37 to hear Miss Carthy speak to 2F about “Gratitude is a must” which reminded
me of Coffee. Jess and I had 2L and they had a lesson on scales and intervals
lesson. The period felt forever, however, it was nice sitting with “Mr
Danclare” in the back. I found out from “Mr Rampersad” that “Mr Khan” was
discharged from the hospital for Dengue. I hope he will be better soon.
The period was
over and I met Gabriel’s Oboe on my desk. Jess left and the sky was getting
darker. “Choo Choo” mentioned how she was in pain because of the weather. Daddy
said rain would be in the evening but it finally came down. Recess went by in a
rush.
There was 1L to
go after. I got there at 10:55. There was a lot of flooding in the corridor. I
remember “Pablo” and “Mr Philips” were in an incident while Donna’s bigmouth
was heard. Shiva was glad that the rain was louder than her voice. I went
through the words of George’s anthem and then the group presentation work.
The second
period was used to teach pitches on the treble staff. I felt like that was the
next lesson instead of the note values that Jess suggested. This lesson was
taught on the spot, top of my head. I discussed the music alphabet afterwards.
The class ran two minutes into lunch after correcting the questions in the
grade one book.
I ended up in
pain somehow. Mel left early with Mr Rishi. I told her to say hello to him for
me. Thankfully, lunchtime had enough time today.* I was going to go get some
work done in the library but it was locked. I got the keys from the guard to
the music room at roll call and headed down there. I took Gabriel’s oboe down
with me which he had asked me to keep during class time with 2L this morning.
The four
students came while I was setting up the six basses. The pain in me hurt
lighting the pans. The six-bass pans made too much noise being turned on the
ground. I greeted the students and took them to the pan room. It was too hot
for them so we took the tenor pans outside of the music on the corridors and
did the practical class there.
The scales done
were the F, C, D, and Bb major scales with their arpeggios. There were a lot of
mistakes and fixing up to do. Miss
Carthy was having her Physical Education class with 2F in the courtyard and
Shiva was next door with upper schoolers. At first, I did not want to disturb
his class but we continued anyway… lolz. My attention was on the students. They
asked if we were reviewing the “Amazing Grace” and the “Ode to Joy” but I
mentioned the new pieces. It took some time to decide on Guitar and 6 bass. It
ended up with Kyla being on Tenor, Gabriel on Double Tenor, Joshua on Guitar,
and Naiema on 6 Bass.
I was very proud
of them for getting through with the first three staves of the song. I played
tenor pan with Kyla to help her with the melody. The school day was over. It
took some time to turn off the air conditioning units and clean up the room. I
went to return the music room keys first before going back to the staffroom.
“Mr Peters”* was
asking me if it was right for him to travel home in his PE clothing. I told him
yes. Saw Mr Charles on the way up and gave a wave goodbye. Didn’t start helping
2F Niema with her scales and arpeggios. She had to work on her rollings on the
tenor pan. I had the feeling as if she was accustomed to background steelpans.
She was able to confirm that feeling for me when I asked.
Had a short wait
in Mario’s waiting. I got some of my journal entry writing there until I got
home. I sent a WhatsApp message to the children and then got to work. There was
a nice debate on YouTube that I looked at before getting to work. I got “Maria’s”
markbook for this new academic year typed up with the names of the students and
then had it emailed to her.
Before I forgot
to email “Celia” the Regularity and Punctuality Excel file again, I did so one
time. There were some more hours before the ending time of work for the night.
I went to finish transcribing the remainder of “This is My Flag”. There were
about five small changes to make. The song was played twice to check the full
notation done so far. Praise God the fourth verse was not so hard to do.
By the time I
went to try inserting the chords, the time was 9:11 PM. I decided to stop for
the night. Was feeling very tired. Instead, I went to play a survival game with
zombies. Seems as if they did a remake of the game. It was the same story being
told in the game each step of the way. Play Store did not save my progress if
it was the same app.
I fell asleep by
10 PM. I am looking forward to seeing if they have the St George’s Day
celebration. This was one of the announcements made by “Celia” during
lunchtime. I was glad to complete Exodus Seven today.
Daryl
Zion M. Ali
(7:49 am – 3:05 pm)
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