Date for Entry: (Friday 24 January 2025)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Friday 02 May 2025)
[T2, W:03 – WD:15,
(Td:3)*].
Dear Diary,
This morning was
not easy to wake up. I jumped in the shower and prepared myself quickly. Since
I wore the Mitchelle House T-shirt on Tuesday, another blue shirt was chosen. I
had almost forgotten my cross chain before walking down the stairs. The ride
was quick, and the Anglican school had their morning singing and drumming as I
was crossing the road. The school was quiet. I saw "Choo Choo" on my
way in with Mrs Santana and "Celia". The Guard saw my blue and asked
if I was in the Blue house also. I told her yes.
The pies were
purchased for, and Mr Richard asked if I wanted them then. It was my mistake doing
this because it burned my tongue for the remainder of the day. The religious
session took some time to finish, so I had enough time to eat and get to class
with Jess. She decided to take the students outside of the classroom today and
said that I could take some Air Conditioning.
I stayed in the
classroom and got lesson twenty completed there. At first, the question stopped
at seventy points, but it came up to a full hundred. The time was getting close
to recess, so I returned to the staffroom. I could recall that at some point
Candice passed in the corridor giggling and saying, "Daryl yuh rell look
like a student dey, boy."
I went to see
Mel in the back. She was still painting banners for the panorama students.
There was a crazy message from Jeanice. She and Miss were planning out the
display for the cultural icons in school. She said that since I mentioned Pat
Bishop that I should do a presentation on her. However, she began to regret it
because it had some easy things that I could have done for the presentation.
Recess time was
over sooner than I thought. I had to get a copy of the timesheet. I was hoping
to work on it over the weekend in time for next week's submission. Candice was
by the computer and using the same sheet that I had written up the transcript
numbers for her yesterday. She had a grading sheet that was used by the school,
and substituted the numbers with a grade in an Excel document. I offered to
call out the numbers for her, and it helped to speed things up. When she was
done, I called her back out to verify if she had done every subject. The
remainder of the document was the CSEC, CAPE 1, AND CAPE 2 results before the Principal
can sign off on the document.
It looked like a
document that I could probably create as a stencil for them to recycle. When
she tried to centre the text, they were scrambled. When she asked for
assistance, I noticed that the text had a lot of spacing in it. She backspaced
two columns, and it came out as needed. I also mentioned the transcript numbers
sheet that was created, and she and Afisha gave me a laugh. Afisha told her
about me, mentioning me on Wednesday, saying that I could make a better
attendance register than what the PMO Officer had given us.
All this time,
the houses were in their meeting getting ready for their Chantwell competition
for the Sports. Lunchtime even came and met us, and I did not remember about
the Form 4 class that was supposed to happen in the fifth period. I spoke with
Artee for a while, and she mentioned how sick she was feeling with the saw
throat. It seems like a lot of the teachers are getting sick first, before the
children, this time around. She did mention that this kind of sickness makes
you want to lie down and makes it difficult to get up and function. It was nice
to see Isekel come back to the office. Miss Chote was mentioning to Candice
that they got permission to give him a stipend to come back and help out. He
was also supposed to have a teaching session for some of us.
The Chantwell
competition began soon in the seventh period. I got there late but in time for
the first performance. The order of presentations was Leacock, Mitchelle, Gift
and Farrell. Leacock had a good drumming, but their people were just in the
cluster. They had nicer flags than the other houses.
Mitchelle was
after, and they entered from two sides of the left side of the quadrangle with
a call and response march. The singing had rap, formation, costuming, smoke
makers and the full works. It was nice to see Justin sing and dance. This was
the best performance without being biased.
The next was
Gift, and they had Miss Jones' grandson on moko jumbie stilts. However, it was
a very poor performance. They also remained in one cluster, like Leacock, but
moved around as a cluster. It was nice to see that they had dancers in their
performance, which other houses did not have.
The last house
to present was Farrell, and I enjoyed their entrance to the 'stage'. However,
when everyone got onto the field, they spoiled it one time, and it was like What
on earth am I watching. Everyone had a bad remark to give that which echoed in
the whole school. There was a chant off against the house three times. The
third time was when everyone took off into the quadrangle and chanted off
against each other. They were getting too noisy, so I went back into the
office.
A lady came to
drop off a document, so I could not remember everything. Instead of letting
fear take me over, I gave a piece of paper to write it down on a piece of the
same scrap paper that I used from yesterday and then had it put on Miss Chote's
VP desk. I also remember earlier during lunchtime, a man came to collect his
son. The boy did not ask for a leave form earlier that morning, and when I gave
him the form to be filled out by his Form Teacher, he came back saying that the
teacher was eating lunch. The three of us had a long laugh about that.
Then I did
remember when making over that form, "Mr Marlon," that sometimes a
dean can sign on behalf of a Form Teacher, so that was my next recommendation.
Thankfully, Javid helped us out. I got the form to sign from Miss Chote, and
the boy and his father were able to leave. At 2:10, I left the office for the
staffroom. I had a copy of the timesheet form that I made. Candice copied it
after seeing the form, and she seemed to like it. I got the same George's grading
system page borrowed for when I go to update this new invention over the
weekend.
I had to see
Miss Daniel first to confirm the difference between Home Economics and Family
Management. She said that Family Management is called Family and Resource
Management. As I made the corner, I heard Donna saying, "What! Like ah see
yuh was out dey dancin', Mr Ali!" I responded, "Like yuh see right,
then," and she laughed out.
Everyone cleared
out of there like vacuum sucked everybody up. Miss Harris' bigmouth was going
on and on about the results and performances. She was also commenting in
frustration, somehow, about Farrell always losing and coming last in
everything. "GG" started laughing aloud when I told her the joke
about Farrell. Miss Carthy couldn't take the noise. She was singing the
"take it easy" song again, but she needed people to help her do the
work. It would surely not be an appropriate anthem for her.
Mel and GG were
waiting for Mr Raymond to pick them up. I packed up and went out. Candice and
Isekel were still in the office. I went to clarify with him the layout for the
transcript document when mentioning that I wanted to make a document to have
the information easily inserted and printed. They were able to clarify that the
document had to be on letter-sized paper and portrait.
I left to meet Daddy
in Curepe. The ride was long and tiring. He had gotten me my first-ever receipt
book. We ended up going for Fai's. There wasn't anywhere to get cake. It was
nice of Miss Soodeen to help me look over the listing of subjects for the form earlier
this afternoon. There were a few for Form Six that were not included in the
original George's form. It took me over two and a half hours to get this far in
the entry after reaching home. I'm looking forward to cataloguing the library
books tomorrow.
Daryl
Zion M. Ali
(7:53 am – 3:19 pm)
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