Date for Entry: (Wednesday 26 February 2025)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Wednesday 25 June 2025)
[T2, W:08 – WD:37,
(Td:X)*].
Dear Diary,
Today is the day
of the school Carnival show 2025. I got to school in alright time. I decided to
wear my lovely blue flowered shirt. People were watching me on the road, too.
As soon as I got into the staffroom, teachers were starting to comment.
Sometime after Mel came abd she said, "Ah go have tuh steal dah shirt, yuh
know!" She laughed. Mrs Ramsingh commented on the shirt with "Choo
Choo". I should have gone and taken a picture of it alone when they went
to do so. The time was drawing closer to 9 AM, and still no word on when the
show was about to begin.
Soon Jess came
by and asked me to join her with the judges in the back. She said that each
judge had to write something about themself for when they were being presented.
While writing up the entry in my red copybook, she made the joke that I was
writing three pages. I was not sure what to write. It felt intimidating that
there were three other accomplished persons more than me, so I kept my words
short and simple and brief about what I think the public might like to know
about me.
Afisha was
sitting in the corner with us, writing in the contestants' names on the score
sheets. The waiting was not long. The other three went out into the hall. I
went to grab some sheets of paper since Mr Marcelle mentioned that there was no
place for the judges to write in their comments and that I should mention it to
Jess. The anthem and school prayer were done before we began. The judges were
introduced. I was presented last, and the prefect boy really could not read
much of what I wrote down on the page, lolz.
The first
performance was done, then there was a big stall before the second one came.
They brought on the different carnival characters. I glanced briefly to see
which one was being shown. I mainly began to type my journal entry for
yesterday. This was the work through every pause. The rest of the performances
went on for the rest of the day. It went on and on, and I didn't get to use the
washroom the whole stretch or go for the pies.
The Original
Soca was after the Original Calypso. One of the Soca contestants had a good
Rapso named "King Jesus", and it was amazing, but didn't suit the
genre. I smelled the wings being cooked from down in the Home Economics room.
We had the Staff Calypso and Freestyle competition. The MTS workers went first
but didn't do anything original. They had the drums. It looked like one of the
guys was good with Tasa.
"Maria"
went second and said she was changing the name to "Pest". Her song
was original, and it was about people calling her name in their confusion. She
also had Gabby with her as the backup. Mr Bain had a skit using Roberts and
Kelis Hood. There was another category for students after, and three
contestants. The first was a mix of students with a very inappropriate change
of words. The second was the Form 4s doing "Cocoa Tea". They had
"Gabby" dressed as a flame and Kyla dressed with Swiss Cocoa boxes as
part of her costume. They have had a big pot. A Form 1 boy came and stole the
category. A lot of the Form 1s were up on the stage toward the end.
The judges were
taken to the back of the staffroom. Sitting in the corner was Aaron Duncan. Mrs
Libert brought us food that came from El Pacos, and the packaging was the same
as from Massy's. The other two ladies decided to start eating and took the
process of tallying much longer. A lot of people won't go hungry all day long every
week, like me, it seems. As soon as the tallies for each section were done, Mr
Marcelle and another lady placed the order from first to fourth place. Jess was
asking me how I found the day went. I told her that it was just a regular day,
and she asked if it was a regular day.
When the tallying
was over, I went to use the washroom for the first time for the day and then
went to eat the El Pacos food that they got us. The rice was really good. I had
callaloo and stew in it. I went to visit Mrs Santana in the Home Economics
kitchen, and she said they were done when I asked if they needed any help.
Donna was in the back washing up the last of the basins and food containers.
I spent the rest
of the evening in the office. Patty came in and she said that she didn't see me
all day. When I told her that they had me judging, she smiled, saying that she
knew. They realised that a lot of the bix lunches were still behind. Looks like
the prefects didn't put the big crates out. I got some to carry home. Daddy was
given it.
Jess left school
to pull numbers in Port of Spain for the Calypso competition for the children.
A lot of the teachers had cleared out, too. Couldn't take much of the school
again. I walked out and got to Curepe. That night I tried to work on the
teacher's punctuality and regularity from the old version 3 into the new file.
I deleted everything from May 2024 and started over with the transferring of
information. Thankfully, that was done, and the rest of the last hour was spent
on the couch watching "Summer House". No photographs were taken today,
so sadly, there is nothing to add to the journal entry.
Daryl
Zion M. Ali
(7:41 am – 5:29 pm)
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