Date for Entry: (Wednesday 23 October 2024)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Friday 29 November 2024)
[T1, W:08 – WD:35,
(Td:3)*].
Dear Diary,
Waking this morning was not so
easy. I got on the bus after 8 AM. I recall hearing a song but I forgot the
name of it. This song would have been good for a steelpan arrangement for “Miss
Williams-George” and “Manny” to play with some other students. There was
another song that was good too. It was a Soca song but I didn’t remember that
one either, lolz.
I met Mrs Solomon in the lobby as
soon as I got into the compound. I didn’t sign for yesterday. Not sure when
anyone else will sign for all of October. Mrs Solomon said that Reference and
Reserved books were to be kept in the library. “Only the Reference books you
were allowed to bend the lending rules BUT only for one night.” I will have to
see I Mrs Sharma and Clarence are going to lend the jigsaw puzzles or keep them
for use during Sunday School sessions.
I mixed up today for Day 4. We
were free for the first two periods. Jess and I went through the “That’s What
Friends Are for” arrangement and started to change the strums. 1F got marked by
me today on their Calypso Month Presentations. Miss Jones came to dance and did
some whining when the students didn’t know how to dance. She said that her
stage name is “Helen of Trinbago”.
The class ran into all of recess.
I went to use the washroom and then went back to class. We were told by “Celia”
that school will be classed for lunch at the end of the fifth period and then
reassemble to the hall at 12:30 for their Divali programme. That was like a
blessing for me.
After recess, the Form 4s came
for class. They worked on the “That’s What Friends Are for” arrangement. Shiva
was taking out the elephant and peacock props that Mel had made for the Divali
function tomorrow. We had choir but I went to the office to get my scores
printed. I met “Johnny-Boy” and Kevin there. They were still excited that we
travelled out yesterday while they were paying to get a project printed. Had
some waiting for the paper to be loaded into the machine.
“Manny” was in the choir meeting
the others weren’t around the music room. People were looking for me to remind
me of the ISCF meeting. Dr Allison reminded me too while waiting for the
prints. Only after lunch during lines, I gave “Manny” and “Mr Barbour” their
copies of “Trini to de Bone”. Sadly, I did not have any extras to give “Miss
Williams-George”.
I met “Michael” down by the 1L
lines and gave him a copy of “Silent Night”. He saw the Bass clef and didn’t
know what it meant. I told him to just focus on the lines with the Treble Clef.
It was a score for a piano solo. There was an interesting pat on the shoulder
given to me by him.
Jess and I sat by her desk to
plan out the programme for the concert and the cost of the tickets. It took the
full seventh and eighth periods to do this. I told her that I was going to have
breakfast before we began. I got to the hall and the Coach came late. I felt
like there was a good bit of improvement today. Thankfully Mr Ali was able to
comment the same. Seems as if the serving was getting better. I played with
Kerensia for most of the time at one table.
At one point, Mr Ali had put
Kerensia and me on one side of the table to play against “Jenny” Atwell. She
was good but the ball kept bouncing away from us. Towards the end, one skilful
student played one-on-one with me and I had some long exchanges with him. That
was with “Wayne.” It was good that Mr Ali good to see it. I tried my best to
mimic the technique that he was showing to Kerensia last Monday. It seems as if
observation is the only way to get better in the programme. I was also able to
do some ‘nets’ and he said that those were good.
Up by the bus route, a bus driver
waited for me to cross the road one time. I got up to Tunapuna with Daddy at 5
PM. I didn’t get to play any games after 9 PM. Instead, I was up all night
until 12:30 recreating the Author’s card and the Subject card. I hope they will
work. I worked on the Subject Card and kept the border that was originally
used.
For the Author’s card, the border
had to be varied so differentiation could be done fast by the glace of an eye.
The pretty corners of the border were replaced with big coloured circles for
the Author’s card. The lines attached to the pretty corners were recycled and
doctored to fit the card. It should be as clear as possible for a lot of
writing to be inserted. The reserved side of both cards was given the ownership
labelling of the church library’s name, library logo, and as customary my logo
to the lower half. I needed to go to bed immediately.
Daryl Zion M. Ali
(8:29 am – 4:42 pm)
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