Date for Entry: (Monday 20 January 2025)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Friday 02 May 2025)
[T2, W:03 – WD:11,
(Td:5)*].
Dear Diary,
Last Friday was
a waste of a day to be in school. There was nothing important going in at all.
Disappointment came when going to Tunapuna Primary Presbyterian School. There
was a workshop going on, and the meeting did not go on as usual. The church
service on Sunday was a smaller gathering, but the performance was good. Mr
Sharma played the Tenor pan with me. Looked like Clarence had a sermon to do in
another church.
This morning was
easy. Praise God. A bus was waiting for me as the red light held the traffic.
The ride was quick too as well as the walk. There was a Form 5 student who
walked down with me. Some of the teachers were now coming in. I was greeted by
a new guard, too. He needed to know my name. The kitchen was still in darkness.
That means the light bulbs had not been changed. I did not like it when it rained
in that corner, as it got the entire kitchen floor muddy.
As soon as I met
Dr Jogie at the cafe, Mel came asking to see if the music room had double-sided
tape for decorations. I got the keys from the guard and went with "Mr
Warner" to the music room. Pans were all over the room, and two men had
been setting up two tents outside in the court. She had some students helping
her make decorations to stick on the steelpan instruments.
I left for the
staffroom to finally sit down for the morning after leaving home. Soon, another
student came asking for the keys again. I gave them it to send to Miss. I began
to realise something while coming out of the washroom, about being in the
school and after leaving. It was not a good thought at all, but in the end, I
will see if it is true. The third period crept up quickly as "AJ" and
Mr Charles were talking about Panorama for schools. The conversation was about
the students being zombified, hungry, or thirsty for the first thing in the
morning as the teachers were walking back in.
I had 1F alone.
Not many of the students were there today. It took a while for them to stand
and then quiet down before the greeting. As soon as I asked about the homework,
a lot of them did not do it. They were forced to write it out in their books,
and then I corrected it at the end of the first period. You have to wonder why
these children come to school if they arent want to do anything. The remainder
of the session was for them to work on their soca lyrics. I worked on lesson
eighteen in the workbook.
The six basses were
loud in the whole place. I went to rest my things back at my desk. On returning
from the cafe and washing my hands, "Cleo" was notifying the teachers
of what to expect tomorrow evening for the preliminaries in the courtyard. She
said that the students will have to play it once slowly and then at tempo. The
pies were good. I feel like there was a new pepper sauce being used today. It
was good to see "Choo Choo" also after her long time away from
school. I hope that she is alright.
Didn't notice
when the staffroom began to empty. Mr Charles got the container that he wanted.
I told him about going to the kitchen to wash my hands before having the pies.
Good thing Aunty and I went to Extra Foods last Thursday. It looked like it was
exactly what he was looking for. However, I had forgotten to take a picture of
it for my journal entry.
I went to the
library, and it was much better there except for the murmurs and obscene
language by the students. I started to feel very sleepy, like on Friday. Maybe
that area is very comfortable. Toward the end of lunchtime, Miss Alexander
dismissed the children from the library at 12:57 PM. When a group of girls were
leaving, it was the first time we all heard the buzzer ring that materials from
the library were being taken improperly. They were all called back to walk through
the scanners one at a time.
I met Miss Mary
and Mel in the art room painting on the "Out and Bad" on bandanniers.
"Celia" was trying to manage the marching. Only about seven girls
were there for the practice. I ended up cutting out patterns of flames from
glittered coloured Bristol board. When Kai made a mistake, I ended up painting
with them in the seventh period. He made some comments on my hiccups again. We
had an interesting conversation about the Phoenix, and he told me about that
story with the girl becoming a phoenix. He didn't know about the other special
qualities of the creature.
School was over
slowly. The steelband was under the tents and playing the tune all afternoon.
Thank God they took a rest for a while. The judge's tent was set where I sat.
While the band was playing the tune for a fourth time, a truck came, and the
Venz-boy was only looking at me, lol. Wonder what that was all about. The guard
got to lock up the gate and leave when they drove out. There was a big volume
discussion going on in the staffroom. I could hear Donna and Mrs Santana. It didn't
end until a very long time.
I needed to use scissors
and had none, so it led me back to the art room to use them and continue
writing for the book. Miss was wondering where I was all the time. Three female
parents were chatting in the back and making cutouts of flames. They left to
hear the music, and Mr Harry left with them. Mr Raymond was waiting for us for
a while in the staffroom, but we didn't have wifi to get his phone call. The
sky was dark by the time Mel got home. We took the highway to Palsea to get to
Tunapuna. We ended up taking Basilon Street to get to Green Street. I forgot
how scary it was to be on that small road.
Daddy was there
in the living room by the time I got home. Until 8 PM, I got up from the couch
to answer my messages before going to do work. I saw John asking me how the
meeting went, so I had to message the principal again, and we got a meeting
settled for tomorrow at 3:30. Clarence also messaged me back and permitted me
to buy some books from Logos at $700. We were not sure about the funds for the
library.
Aunty Isa
messaged me earlier that morning while I was in school. After my response to
her, I went on to mention the APC Library and the donation of books if she had
any. She said she will go through her library. I did have to message back
Clarence to see if he would be accepting magazines for the library, and he agreed.
The last thing
concerning WhatsApp for the night was calling Aunty to let her know all that had
happened in all of the messaging. I was hoping it would not be troubling for
her to go to Logos on Wednesday. It just so happened that tomorrow she was
gonna be having a late evening, and that Wednesday it would work out. I got
more writing done in the gallery until I couldn't do much again. Two more
paintings were done before I had to get to bed. The game was finally working
the way it should.
Daryl
Zion M. Ali
(8:00 am – 5:58 pm)
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