Date for Entry: (Sunday 01 December 2024)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Wednesday 04 December 2024)
[T1, W:13 – WD:, (Td:X)*].
Dear Diary,
This morning I ended up sleeping
back. I got to church late and had a short while before the performance. We did
not know when we were going to play. The other children to play with us were
not called over and then Rev Baldeosingh continued. We had to take back our
seats. Toward the end of the service, we were called back to play. Mr Sharma
sat down by the piano for the whole service and played there. Zara was put to
serve communion so we did a solo. The practice continued as usual.
Dexter brought some book
donations for the library. I took them with me since one Girl wanted to go
inside. She borrowed her third book. After setting up the library and then packing
the books to take home, the practice continued longer. The song of their choice
for next week was "Carol of the Bells". I remember "Isaac"
shaking his head no when he saw the arrangement for "Noel" that Mr
Sharma did. I was surprised too. I also saw the interesting run for the
introduction.
A lot of them left. I remained in
the church with Anthony, Clarence and Mr Samaroo. They were speaking about the
first Christian Pan Festival held by the Anglicans and that the Presbyterian
Church in the 60s did not like Steelpan being a part of their church. I thank
God that it made a way after that time and served a useful purpose.
As soon as I got home I ate and
got ready to head down to George's. Two heavy showers of rain delayed me and
Daddy from leaving the home. It was nice that in Curepe the sun came down. I
told him that I might just need to use the same umbrella to shelter from the
heated sun. We had a good laugh about that. One maxi was on the bus route and
as soon as I jumped in we took off. The ride was not long and the walk was
medium fast.
When I got to the school they
were running through "Carol of the Bells" with the Section Leaders'
band for a while before getting into the Panorama Tune. Noon came quickly. I
was using the new PDF that Mr Marcelle sent to me before leaving home. It
looked like there were things that needed to be fixed again in it.
At some point, he had asked the
frontliners to go over into the classroom to run the song from the introduction
to the chorus. His main concern was the verse that needed checking. We both
started to notice that there were a lot of things that were not taught to them.
The band did not go to recess until 3 PM or after there. Somehow practice had
slowed down to an end. There was a meeting with the band before sending them
home. Sir was telling me that he would cut practice short because of the weather
that was there.
We had a long wait for
"Vannah" to go with her parent. Mel, Sir and I stayed back chatting
in the evening. We ended up calling an Uber to fly us home. It was too
expensive from Mel’s front gate to my gate in Tunapuna ($44). That was only a one-time
experience for me then. I went home to have some Pelau that the aunties sent me
and worked on uploading some journal entries. Only one painting was completed
for the night before I fell asleep on the couch.
LINK(S):
Daryl
Zion M. Ali
(11:10 am – 6:21 pm)
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