Monday, February 24, 2025

St. George’s College (Week #99) – Day #451

Date for Entry: (Monday 24 February 2025)

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

[T2, W:08 – WD:35, (Td:3)*].

Dear Diary,

    This morning was a rush to get to school. At the WASA stop, there were two boys dressed as Georgian's although I didn't see them in the school before. They took a long time to walk down the road. The room was empty when I got in. It looked like Jess was now coming in. She sent me a WhatsApp message asking for full assistance as this week her preparations for the Carnival concert will begin from period six to eight, and then on Thursday, she will be going to another school to judge their show too. She met me at my desk to talk about what she sent. We will have to see what topics she wants me to do with the children.

    While there was some time before class with 1F, I went to the art room. I got the Bristol Board from Miss, and I got six envelopes ruled up and stapled. I ended up with the Form 4s in the music room and waited all lunchtime for Jess to come back. Since the children did not have the pansticks or scores for the practical, I decided to do some theory with them. The hardest topic they had when I asked was intervals.

    I went through the Grades 1 to 4 intervals with them. The Form 5 part will be their homework to explore. It was nice that they understood it. A very interesting conversation came up just as lunchtime came around. I also got to show them the different placements of the C4 clef and introduce their names. My head was spinning and I felt like falling. It took a long time for the children to move the pans out of the steelpan room.

    When I went back to the staffroom, it had been a while since I had had any water. "GG" told me while drinking the water that she was helping "Celia" with the lateness and absences yesterday, and she liked the form that she was using. She also added that she found it strange to be a Ministry document, since it looked so neat. She said that while turning through the pages, she saw my DAPHA Projects logo and realised that it was me who made it.

    I took my stuff and went to the office. I met "Choo Choo" out in the yard heading over there. Rhea was making a joke with her about not getting any privileges or getting any complimentary leave.

    I went into the office to get started. There were copies and other stuff to do. I got all the copies done that evening and batched them off. I got the CXC label for Mel printed and handed it to her in the art building. The only problem was that 2024 was accidentally left on it. I will have to change it sometime. "Celia" met me by the staffroom door afterwards. She said that she was looking for the Teachers' Punctuality and Regularity Excel file that she was using. She couldn't find it. Back in the office, she came after a while and was looking for it.

    After a long while, too, we realised that in the updated file, she had not clicked save, and some of her work was missing from the Excel file. Instead of all that, I invited her over to the computer where I plugged in all the numbers of late minutes, and she got to see how my Excel would work. She got all of the marks tallied to put in her form. We got a lot of starting progress done. We worked on the entries for November 2024.

    At 5:30, Patty had to go, and I got a ride up with her. There was some good music playing on the ride home. She mentioned that there was a tech committee that I could always share the instructions on operating the file, so they will know what to do when I leave. As soon as I got home, I ate and then went to see about the "Dark Wars" zombie game. After three weeks, I am at a Level 14 stronghold. I did some painting and then went to the computer at 9 PM to work on the remainder of November 2024. I also got started in October 2024. The time immediately got to 12:39 AM, and I had to call the end of a night immediately.


Daryl Zion M. Ali

(8:09 am – 5:41 pm)

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