Date for Entry: (Friday 21 February
2025)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Wednesday 25 June 2025)
[T2, W:07 – WD:34,
(Td:2)*].
Dear Diary,
This morning,
there was a rush to get to school. I even realised that I fell asleep on the
couch from last night at 5 AM this morning before trying to get up, turn off
the lights and go to bed. There was a wait for the religious instruction
session in the first period to finish. The pedestrian gate was still open, so I
used it to go pay for the pies one time before heading to the staffroom.
When the second
period came, Jess took a very long time to come down to the music room. It was
a long wait for her to get out of the staffroom. We met in the hall and I told
her that the children were down by the music room. They were called back and
were given a note on their coursework project. Mrs Santana came and took her
out of the class to chat about something. It sounded like the Carnival show
they wanted to put together next week. GG came and said that she was coming to leave
some work for the children to do because "Jan" was not there.
I ended up
leaving both Mrs Santana and Jess there and walked over to the staffroom. I
went to get a copy of the timesheet and the leave form. In the remaining time
before recess, I wanted to get the information for all of this month thus far
consistent with the OJT logbook and my journal book to insert it into the
timesheet so that on Thursday morning, the rest will be easily inserted. I went
to get the pies when I was done. It was hard to wait the next twenty minutes for
recess.
As soon as I was
done, I took my things over to the office and began to work. I went to make the
copies that Miss Soodeen gave me to make and the rest of her desk. Mr Charles
called my name from his desk, signing her permission slip for the copies and
said that he "needed some copies by today, please." As soon as the
copies were done, I left them on her desk just in case it was to be used after
recess.
Mrs Santana came
toward the end of recess and told me that the letter I had printed and
formatted for her yesterday had to be done over. She said that Patty said that
they could not charge the students for the entrance to the show. She took off
quickly, mentioning that she was running late for your class. She said running
out the door will email the letter through the school's FAC again.
Candice was in
her room doing some work. At some point, she had called me and asked for some
tips. It looked like a document for the school on an Excel sheet. I showed her
how to merge the cells and wrap text to make the word fit comfortably. Patty
was in the room too, and she was glad and mentioned how Excel gave her trouble.
Looks like Jeanice decided to show herself today. She and Miss Carthy were busy
talking outside when I was coming back from delivering Miss Soodeen's copies.
At lunchtime,
Mel came into the office and shouted to her, "Jeanice, the car is here."
Not sure where they were going. Afisha was asking me if I was okay. I told her
that I'm okay despite the headache killing me since morning. The other Muslim
student came to sign out the keys today. Just before lunchtime was over, Jess
came back to check on her letters. They were still not scanned, and I told her
that the best thing to do is to take a picture of it to send to the person for
now, until the scan comes in. So she still took the picture as I suggested and
left.
It was sometimes
in the seventh period while working on the computer, and Mrs Santana came to
let me know that the email was sent in the FAC email. I tried over fifteen
times to open the email, and it bounced like a bounced check. Not sure why the
email was bot wanting opening. I asked her to send it back to me on the
school's Gmail account.
When she came
back into the room, I got the email and was able to open the document. I got
the document set up as a new file, and there was one change she saw. A date on
the document was concerning, but she left it. There was another class to run
off to, and she mentioned 250 and 300, so I had in mind to make. I had the
letter made and stamped. It was left in the In-Box for the Principal to sign
off.
It was nice of
Anisa to sit with me while she did her work. We had a laugh about me
recognising the ratios questions in the Form 2 paper that she asked me to print
a sample for her. She then said, "Take a look at the other one and see if
you can tell me what's in it," with a giggle. We had another laugh. It was
a Form 6 paper for Pure Mathematics, Statistics and Calculus. She left sometime
before the eighth period. Miss Carthy came late for her Sports meeting. Mrs
Santana came for the letter, and I told her that it was not signed. She signed
it and then took it right into the Principal's office when I told her that a
meeting was going on.
A student came
by and asked the student to go and get Jess to sign it. Once the letter came
back, I got the prints going for her. I had set 300 copies to run off. She came
back to get them from the tray and then went off to the classes with Rhea.
Candice left early after checking the large boxes for the box lunches. Indera,
Patty and I were outside in the main part of the office just chatting. She
showed me the teacher's register and asked if there was anything I could use to
paper it. I was telling them that I was searching for affordable contact paper
to paper the office logbooks, since the clear one might still make them look
untidy. Patty agreed.
When she asked,
I told her that I had secured the clear ones she gave me in the cupboard.
Indera left sometime after. I left the office after 4:30 PM. Patty had some
nice trees placed out in the 'lobby' area. She asked me if I didn't want to go
home when she saw that it was too late. I told her that it would have been nice
to stay late and work on those lateness and absences. Earlier, there was a loud
noise, and then I realised, while delivering the copies for the teachers, that
the dancers were practising. There were also students giving a loud cuss talk,
and as soon as Indera heard me alert it, she spoke out to them from Patty's
office.
I went to use
the washroom for the first time for the day since leaving home. I packed up and
then left Donna and Mr Marlon in the staffroom to go up. It was a long wait for
transport again. I realised that this was the third day in a row that I was
riding back to Curepe in a maxi. The headache was really bad this evening.
Thankfully, after eating, it went away. I spent some time with the SAGHS anthem
again, and there were a few of the embellishments from the original that I
realised were not inserted. I had a study of the recording and my score in
fragments. It seemed a bit better to me. The night came to an end very quickly.
Daryl
Zion M. Ali
(7:55 am – 4:28 pm)
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