Tuesday, February 18, 2025

St. George’s College (Week #98) – Day #451

Date for Entry: (Tuesday 18 February 2025)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Wednesday 25 June 2025)

[T2, W:07 – WD:31, (Td:5)*].

Dear Diary,

    The morning was late today. It took me 45 minutes to get up from the couch to the shower. The ride to school was slow. I have to rush to make the road crossing the Curepe. Thankfully, I made it to the side of the bus route. The woman police officer had caused a big line of traffic, and people were not being allowed to get on. A man on the road told her, "Like you're goin' mad!" And she walked passed by and said, "Yeah! I'm goin' mad!" It took up time, but a driver had stopped for me to get in.

    There was also a wait down at Sixth Avenue to cross the road. I saw "Fine Tie" walking out late same time as me. It was strange last week to see the casual outfit. Teachers were already in their classes. I got to my desk hearing Miss Dayna angry again as if someone did something "stupid" to her. She and Mr Charles, in their conversation about it, began to sing the "Blessing" song and the Radica song too. I wish I weren't there to hear it, lolz.

    Jess was early, busy chatting with Mrs Libert. I think they were planning out the performances for Carnival. It was nice to see Patty early after recess. I didn't see Mel or Gloria in the morning yet. Maybe they were in class. I had enough time to finish the entry for yesterday and begin this morning's entry. Jess gave me the keys to go and take 1F down to the music room. Their behaviour was the issue. She spoke about the project that was due three classes ago and then gave them review questions to work out until the last ten minutes of class to correct them. I left to get breakfast and then went to the office.

    On this day, I had some wait before I got to the computer. All afternoon, but starting from sixth period all the way to after school, I took the time working on the regularity and punctuality Excel document. I was able to stay long after school and finish it. I knew if I went home hoping to work on it, that I would end up doing nothing. This was exactly what happened last night. There were a few interruptions by visitors, students to make copies, and students to do exit forms. The work was done on the individual portfolios concerning formulae and getting the names of teachers in their appropriate places.

    The fifteenth profile down to the sixtieth profile was completed. The last thing to do before leaving the office late that evening was to put the portfolios in numerical order and save everything. It was great to have this accomplished at home. Also at home, trying to have formulae for future changes of the names was the challenge. I was thinking of asking Miss Ali for help when it did not work out the three times of tried. I tried a fourth time and it worked out.

    Two different sets of work were required. Although I did not want to have two sets of heavy work for the names, this fourth idea worked, and now the file was ready for use and data archiving. I then spent more late hours into the morning checking the document that Indera wrote with the numbers. All 60 profiles, all 12 months, 12 monthly summaries and all of the teachers' monthly tallies were checked. I knew what I did when inserting the formula, but a doubting feeling came in big again. Thankfully, they were all accurate and consistent with each other.

    I was so happy about this massive accomplishment. Lord bless this file that one day it will assist the schools in the country. I remembered strongly about Indera mentioning that she would not be in George's tomorrow.


Daryl Zion M. Ali

(8:12 am – 3:55 pm)

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