Date for Entry: (Friday 31 January 2025)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Friday 02 May 2025)
[T2, W:04 – WD:20,
(Td:2)*].
Dear Diary,
This morning was
a hard get-up. I had a cold in my eyes like from yesterday. It was scary to
experience that as if the eyes were going blurry again. I got up and got ready.
The cars on the bus route had formed a chain with the red light in Curepe, so I
took the chance and crossed. Almost got hit by a bus. Thankfully, one driver
stopped for me. I didn't rush down the road today, but took my time. Religious
Instruction was about to go on. It took a long time to finish, too.
2L was taken to
the music room. I worked with two groups, and Jess worked on the others; they
had more work to put together. Ameer's group had a song written by "Mr
Samlal", but he is accustomed to Dancehall, and it only came out as rap. I
knew this because of the song's structure. There were a lot of comments to be
made. They had to voice note my comments to him while Nicolas had to calm down
"Mr Rampersad" and "Mr Danclare" from misbehaving in the
back.
At one point, I
had to ask Ameer to cut the voice and not send it for us to laugh before continuing.
The double period was over by the time I got to Kaleb's group. His song sounded
like one of those rough soca songs. His work was very good, but to get his
voice to sound like the guy who sang those songs would be the challenge. One
song reference would be "When ah dead, put jab jab on meh tombstone".
I returned to the staffroom to cool off and get yesterday's entry completed.
Jess came back
and didn't say that she was leaving. The Corporal came and said that Jess left
the compound and that a man came to ask to take back some instruments. When I
called Jess, she said that they were coming for the red six bass pans, a guitar
and some other small pans. It looked like carrying the six basses first was
their mistake? I waited all recess for them to come back. The men said that
they were going to St Augustine to come back.
I locked up and
got back into the staffroom. It was nice of Mr Charles to ask how I was going
and if I was alright. Then GG told him that it was a good attempt to try being
nice. "Mr Barbour" had come to ask if he could have the keys for
Jess. I gave it to him and then went to the office. I saw Mr Pierre going
through his cabinet. We had all realised this morning that it was his last day before
retirement. The office was empty, only with Miss Ali and Candice. They were
talking about hair. Then Candice had asked me after Miss Ali what colours she
said would look good in her hair. I told her that orange and yellow might look
good.
The box lunch
gentlemen came by, and they got their book signed by Indera in the Vice Principal's
Office. There were the cards for Sports Day that had to be cut. Mr Charles came
into the office and asked what they had to do with it. Candice brought it down
from her office and said that they had to be cut. He ended up cutting all the
pages with the old guillotine. He was mentioning how the first three were
spoiled. The rest of them were done very good. Originally, they had to be cut
by the border, but he did it better by cutting them right down the middle of
the four cards.
When I asked
Candice about the work she said she had for me, she took me to her office and
showed me a box that had to be pulled down to the outside of the Vice
Principal's office. They had files of leave forms from teachers from 2015 to
2023. These will be the sets that I have not worked on yet. That means the
filing cabinet with the forms I had worked on has not been found yet. Please,
Lord, let those forms be found and protect them for me. In the process of
sorting all the manila folders, I was assisted by Afisha's cousin, who came for
the day. I learned during the time that her name is Xaria. She got a pencil to
write in the years for us to remember which pile belonged to which year. She
was taken to go for lunch by Hunchies.
While being left
alone, I ended up leaving the folders there on the ground and went to fix up
for the aerobics event that I was asked to score. There was a table fixed up
for us and a water table in the back being managed by two unknown ladies.
Before sitting at the table, Donna was pouring white grape wine into plastic
cups, and they were sharing cubes of a log cake for Mr Pierre's retirement. The
only issue was that they were not seeing him around, and the event in the hall
was about to start.
I ate a cube of
the cake and drank half a cup of wine, and went back to the hall. Donna's eyes were
big and opened at me, saying, "Sir! No! Yuh suppose tuh wait fuh Mr
Pierre." I went out the door and waited by the table with my binder board
and pencil case. The breeze was blowing up my hair all around. I saw Miss
Soodeen was registering the Mitchelle House athletes for this event on a sheet
of paper and handing out their numbers to clip onto their shirts: one for the
front and one for the back.
The warm-up
session took a long while, so I sat with my phone and typed up the log entry
from this morning. Althea sat on my left, and she got me angry for the whole
thing. It was either you want to sit and write like me, "Jan", and
Susan, or you want to go and galavant yourself around in a displeasing way. At
one time, she got mixed up and confused. Then she began arguing with me. Well,
praise God I didn't say anything.
"Jan"
and I were both confused about the order. Everything was in a rush. We were
also not told to keep numbers from children who were out. So that had to become
a second kind of rush. At some point in the event, the instructors who were
issuing the warnings ran out of paper and came to us to see if we had any more.
They had to get more into the office. I made the mistake of blanking out the
numbers on the warning forms for them to recycle. Gloria was shocked and said
that the paper was reused afterwards. If I knew it was her supervising, I would
have never agreed to the scoring, sadly.
At the end of
the event, the other put their numbers in the zip lock bags and went away. I
took my time at the desk to neatly write over the form before returning to the
staffroom. I saw "Jan" and Susan sitting by Miss Carthy, and they
were organising the numbers in order and then putting the warning forms in
piles to be stapled. After four teachers annoying me, Miss Carthy was the fifth
teacher to vex and annoy me. I ended up talking back big when she wanted to big
mouth "Wey Mitchell?! All de odah house dem bring een dih thing!"
She looked down at
me when I responded. While leaving, I did mention that there was a number
missing. She got me vexed again, and I had made sure that she understood my
agreement was about writing and not collecting numbers or finding paper for the
instructors to issue warnings. As soon as I finished, I took it to her desk. I
left it on top of the other three house files, saying to her, "And the
last shall be the first." She smiled big and laughed.
I went to check
and see which kind of filing cabinets they had outside of the Vice Principal's
office. They looked older, so when I asked Candice about the cabinets from
Valsayn in the Vice Principal's Office, she said that Mr Charles placed
everything from in there somewhere else, and it would be mixed up in
everything. This made me more panicked.
I went to copy
the four forms that were finalised last night. Three of them were created from
scratch for the first time, and the other was updated. I gave it to Candice to
keep for Patty since she was in a meeting with Indera and had invited her to
take a look if she liked. I went up the road. The walk was slow. As I got up to
the road to cross, the bus driver went over the line and had to reverse. I
almost got bounced down by a police car making a turn from the side road onto
the bus route, and had to walk in between the two vehicles to get to the side.
I boarded the bus, and the ride was slow. Started to feel worse than yesterday.
We got home and
I couldn't eat much. I got the lesson started yesterday in school completed it at
night. I did some light painting. Only three were completed, and I began to
fall asleep on the couch by 10 PM.
LINK(S):
- Appreciation Card.
- Aerobics Results - Mitchelle House.
Daryl
Zion M. Ali
(7:55 am – 3:50 pm)
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