Date for Entry: (Thursday 20 February 2025)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Wednesday 25 June 2025)
[T2, W:07 – WD:33,
(Td:1)*].
**valentines pics
Dear Diary,
This morning I
was hurrying to school. I didn't remember what the timetable day was going to
be. When I got to my desk, I saw that it was Day 1. It meant that there was
still some time to wait. I was able to sit there until the start of the third
period to get some of my recording of the entries done. I was able to finish
Monday's entry by lunchtime that day.
Jess and I were
in the music room today with 3F. Ari's group went last when recess time came. I
was working on the entries. Seems like the way the office works goes, I did not
have much time to type everything out. There are also a lot of things to
mention. I went to get the pies and had them at recess.
Before going to
the office, I went up to the library to When I got into the office, Jess was by
the computer, and then Mrs Solomon came in to print something. I was amused
that they were not getting through, and it didn't occur to them to ask me for
help. I had to rush out of the room to do something and come back quickly. We laughed
about that when I came back. The two ladies said they saw me just dart out the
door and wasnt sure if I had heard them.
Jess also asked
about how I was going to be working with the office and mentioned having mixed
signals. She mentioned what Patty had said, but I told her that my working plan
would be a 50-50 split where I would be with her in assigned classes for the
first four periods, and then after recess, I would be in the office since there
isn't anyone around to hold it down. She was then able to understand why she hadn't
been seeing me in the afternoons. She couldn't get her document scanned and
emailed. I told her that she would have to ask Candice since I forgot how to do
it. It was placed into the Principal's inbox.
The box lunch
was taken outside during lunchtime, and a boy came to ask for the keys to the
History Room for the Muslim students to pray. Jess was still there trying to
get her things done, and I ended up leaving to go to the library for the poetry
writing competition that Rhea was telling me about. They were supposed to start
at 12:15, but everyone was late, including the judges. It was nice to see the
library supervisor there again. She was one of the judges with Rhea and Mrs
Libert.
Students from 2L
had done a really good job of decorating the library for the event. Around 1:25,
the competition. The lower schoolers were marked first. It was nice to see
"Mr Haynes" try, and also "Pablo", who said he is always
happy. It was surprising that happy was his chosen word, too. The second
category was for students in classes higher than Form 3. Not many of the
students in this range had participated. While the judges were writing, Mrs
Solomon held out the basket for the teachers to pick.
Mr Bain had
entered while the last of the older students were sharing their pieces, and
Jess had forced him into the competition. The order was Jess, Afisha, me and then
Mr Bain. The mic was accidentally turned off. I had to learn how to turn it on.
I was very nervous, but I did the reading and it was alright. Mr Bain was
boasting and also mentioned, "Bad man doh need no paypah!" He tore
his one up and threw it on the floor. He had a presentation, which was a
picture of him and his wife. He was very illustrative but went more than five
sentences, like Jess.
The judges took
over fifteen minutes to tally and deliberate. The wait was very long. Patty had
come into the library just before the results were announced. In the lower
school category, there was a tie for second place between "Mr Haynes"
and "Pablo". The first place was Jasim, and everyone loved his poem.
I can't remember who one the other category. For the teachers, Afisha came
third, Jess came second, and first place was given to Mr Bain. They took a
picture of the winners, but I will have to ask for pictures of them for the
journal.
I went back into
the staffroom, and Mel was there sorting her folder out. We got the VAPA business
on her desk sorted into folders. Before I began to sort my documents that she
handed to me, I also got to share the poem that I wrote. She gave a little
laugh after reading. I related Inktober to her and the competition to
understand what I had to do.
After school, we
went to Hunchies and had a good lime after school with Gloria and Mr Raymond in
the staffroom until I left. Sadly, I was going home with no punctuality and
regularity forms for 2024, so I decided when leaving the school that I would do
whatever I wanted to work on for the evening when I got home. There was a
strong feeling to work on the SAGHS steelpan arrangement that evening. I was
not sure of the reason why.
I remembered on
Tuesday night, while chatting with John, I mentioned to him how difficult it
seemed to find a single working idea for the SAGHS anthem. From 5:13 PM, the
question to another trial of five trials, and the arrangement was done and
completed at 8:32 PM. As soon as I was done, I called John to let him know the
good news. He was surprised that I told him it was done tonight, and on Tuesday
night, I told him that it was very difficult to work with. He laughed and said
that he would listen to the recording. Some more good news was shared with me.
Our chat
finished some minutes after nine, and I spent some time listening to the song and
making light changes. That was all that could have been done for the night. I
was so amazed, surprised and glad that this arrangement was accomplished
tonight. That was all that could have been done. I will have to check over the
song another night since it was getting late.
At that time, it
would be new to my ears altogether again than from several repeats tonight. I
sent Vangy a recording, and thankfully, for once, her phone was able to play a
recording of my steelpan work. After speaking with her about trying to find
affordable coloured contact paper, she said that she will try to listen to one of
my steelpan arrangements a night to catch up with the ones that I previously
shared with her, lolz.
Daryl
Zion M. Ali
(7:52 am – 4:50 pm)
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