Date for Entry: (Monday 21 October 2024)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Friday 29 November 2024)
[T1, W:08 – WD:33,
(Td:1)*].
Dear Diary,
This morning was
not a good morning to wake up. I was not feeling well. It did not feel like a
morning to go to school but I got my butt up and out of the house gradually. I
got to school late. Spoke with Miss Mary from the pavement before entering the
compound by the guard booth.
As soon as I got
to the kitchen, Donna’s big mouth was heard. Too early in the morning for that
noise and she should know how to voice it properly. It seems like she and
“Andy” had a buss out by the way he looked when I was coming into the compound.
I went for the pies but they had not fried them as yet. They were paid for
still being collected later that day.
Jess called me
down to the music room handing me the keys. The air condition units were turned
on. I thought that we had Form 1s but it was 3F. None of the groups had their
assignments ready. They were given the first period to work on it and the
second period would be the note on simple and compound time signatures. The
students took forever to write.
During recess, I
got a pale and mop borrowed to try and clear up the room. I decided it would be
best to start from the back by the guitar pans and come up to the front by the
purple door. Kayla came in with her friend who sounded lovely for singing, They
helped Jess move the yellow Salah Wilson steelpan books to the brown shelf outside
in the classroom.
Meanwhile, I was
digging out broken tiles and sweeping up the dust. Jess gave me a long and
skinny plastic bag to put in the smaller tile pieces. When I tried to do the
mopping, the floor was getting muddier than before so I left it as it is. Miss
Leiba at lunchtime was surprised when she saw me with the mop and pale and
asked what I was doing with it. She said that’s not my job but it would never
be done if I didn’t do it myself.
I got the pies
and “Mr Danclare” was telling me a joke about sharing is caring. We had a good
laugh about it and spoke about Form 7 and Form 9. I went to the staffroom from
the kitchen side. Mel told me that Mr Marcelle was supposed to come for a
meeting and that “Jan” was asking for me. The pies were nice. We were told
about the Georgian chat on Facebook and an improper comment that the Principal
made in it.
At the time of
roll call, Jess left but she didn’t come back. I was in the back of the
staffroom by the round table with Mr Marcelle until the end of school. He
shared with me a copy of the score that he had prepared for the meeting and the
two of us spoke about the modulation (of the tonal centre*), verse &
chorus. When we played back the song I pointed out that the notation was
looking very different from what I was hearing. He then looked back from the
top with me and realised that it was the wrong score that was printed today.
Table Tennis
session was good today. I got to the hall at 2:51 and Coach came some time
after. We discussed the time that I could stay and I played with Saskia and
Vade. Kerensia was my opponent for the session.
“Patty” was
there waiting for Vade’s practice to finish. I prayed to God to send the angels
to hold up the rain. A few drops touched my head but it held up. Only when I
got to Curepe did it break out. The bus driver was so kind to pull very close
to the side of the terminal steps for me to come off. Daddy was waiting with
his doubles. Rain fell for a while. The necklace man had to cover up his stall
and come in.
The evening
ended with a brighter sun before the sky darkened. I ended up writing all of
this entry while inconsiderate people downstairs smoked their various
natsynesses and made use of the ‘F word’ in every sentence. However, teaching
“Miss Garaway” the first part of the National Anthem was very nice today.
A nice Form 1
student brought his guitar to play for us. I can’t remember if his name is
Michael. Jess had sent me to help him out and speak about the Christmas
Programme and the Panorama Concert. He played “Om Jai Laxmi Mata” and it was
very romantic. I immediately thought of the song “Silent Night”. It would be
great if he could play it just like that for the concert.
The pen I was
using for this entry was too useless. It was nice of Messiah to assist me with
the Table Tennis at the earlier part of the session. I felt like I was getting
better at serving.
Tonight the time
was taken up doing the journal for the library on Saturday. Clarence had sent
me the two paragraphs for the Adult Welcome Letter. The time went by and I did
not get to work on any steelpan artwork.
Instead, I
worked on music for Michael in case he came back tomorrow. I also got the piano
score for “Greensleeves,” which was sent to the school for printing. I did not
get to finish my cooking game challenge. I ended up missing out on a split of
three hundred purple gems.
Daryl
Zion M. Ali
(9:10 am – 4:20 pm)
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