Date for Entry: (Friday 28 February 2025)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Wednesday 25 June 2025)
[T2, W:08 – WD:39,
(Td:6)*].
Dear Diary,
This morning, Daddy
walked into the living room and woke me up. This meant that I fell asleep on
the couch and remained there the whole night. It took me a while to wake up and
get ready. The ride down to Sixth Avenue was short. As soon as I got into the
compound, it felt very strange to see Form 6 students out in the front car park
area. When I got to the hall, I heard children, and a child inside had said,
"Aye, look, Mister Ali!" I didn't bother to watch. At first, I had
assumed that Religious Instruction was going on in the hall.
The staffroom
was very empty. As soon as I got to my desk, "GG" had asked me if I
was still going to the funeral, and I told her yes. She went to speak with Mrs
Ramsingh about it. I went to the office to see if Patty was there to get the
forms signed and stamped. The students were taught in Religious Instruction.
They were kept in the hall. I met Indera in the hall, and she held onto my
clipboard. Thankfully, Patty came in and she signed it for me in her office.
She told me that she would be leaving early and to tell the others that.
I met Jeanice at
Miss Ali's desk, now starting to fill out her timesheet. That was probably the
first or second time for the month that she came to school. She mentioned
calling Mrs Archer about the late delivery and that her driver was coming at
some unknown time. I delivered the message to her. We had a brown envelope
taken out for our sheets, and then I went back to the staffroom as the time for
leaving was soon. I learned that "Kimmy" and "Hams" were
taking us, but they weren't staying for the service. I had to go and get Mel in
the Art Building. She came and took a long time talking to "Choo
Choo", so we had to hurry her out of the building.
When we got in
the car, "Kimmy" didn't know where we were supposed to go. We tried
to follow "Hammy" and got lost until Mel directed the way. The church
was easy to miss. The church yard we went to first was another church, and it
was locked. Mel said, "Good thing we checked, or we would have gone to
somebody else's funeral." The "Kingdom Hall" Jehovah's Witness
Church was very easy to miss. There was a small incline going up to the parking
yard, but it was small like a backyard to some house.
A gentleman was
directing the cars coming in. I liked the place just by watching it from inside
the car. There was a huge sliding gate made of iron that was able to roll open.
The ground behind it was the higher platform and the podium. When we got to the
church, not many people were there and we were late, lolz.
We didn't see Mr
Raymond coming in. He didn't show up to the service at all. We were very
concerned. We didn't find a place the the five of us could sit straight, but it
was better to have a corner. Not sure if "GG" was scared coming to
the funeral. I decided to sit and type the journal entry for Wednesday by the
time. It was from the beginning of the day.
The air
conditioning was not working, and Mel was thinking it was not turned on. I knew
that we would be left on the heat, and it was so. They did not even turn on the
sealing fans above. When the programmes were being distributed and Gloria
forgot to take one for Miss Nunes-Charles and Mrs Ramsingh. The service had to
start off with a lovely song called "". Some letters written by some
of the family members were read first, and then the eulogy and sermon were
delivered by the pastor.
Even the sermon
was super long if they were trying to hurry things up, but I loved it very
much. A lot of the reference scriptures were from Genesis and Psalms. I was not
sure if they had pushed the time of the service later, or if everyone was late
today, or if there was traffic keeping everyone back. The last song was sung,
and then there was the final viewing before the body was taken to the cemetery.
Strangely
enough, during the service as the sermon was being done, the current went and
came back four times. The lights began to blink and flash, and move like disco
lights. It felt like a poltergeist at one point. They ended up turning off the
lights, keeping us in the dark, and there was only a breeze from the outside to
ventilate the entire 'hall'.
Sometime in the
service, too, I was shocked when I saw a man pass by. I thought
"Hams" had come back to the service, but then I was wondering how he
was able to dress up in a fancy suit. When I looked at the hair, it was grown
and grey, so I then realised it wasn't him. But the person could pass for a
real close twin. I can't remember the person that Mel was telling me about in
the service, but I thought it was Mr Ramdath.
At the end of
the service, I went to ask the guy resembling "Hams" if there were any
more programmes. Sadly, it didn't have any for my journal entries. Mel went to
the viewing, but I stayed back with the others. We had a long wait for the cars
to come back. I didn't take any pictures for the journal entry today.
"Hams" came first, and "Kimmy" came. She was out on the
road, and we had to run because she was waiting at the corner of the road. She
said that she was trying to call all of us, and we were not answering. I didn't
remember to turn the silencer off.
All of the banks
were either filled or out of order. "Kimmy" had played a party song
for Mel, and that seemed to be her favourite one for this season. When I got
back to school, I used the washroom and went back to the office. Outside,
Afisha told me that the timesheets were in. She said that Mr Harry took Jeanice
to the Waterfront. Not many people were in the hall either. I saw Saskia and
"Wayne" playing Table Tennis. I went to see if Indera needed help
with the test papers. She said that the copier was giving trouble again and
that they would have to call the technician to come and check it out.
It was very
displeasing to hear Miss Bacha speaking certain unpleasant things in the office
again. To avoid hearing all of it, I decided to go and finish the six landscape
Bristol board envelopes that I should have done since Tuesday. For me, it would
have felt nice to finish them in one week, in case we got more board next week.
Mrs Nunes-Charles was outside chatting with an Art student while supervising
the other children playing in the yard. "Celia" wasn't there today. I
thought that she would have come to school for us to finish by November 2024.
School was
starting to feel toxic again. I left some minutes after "Choo Choo",
who said that she would look for me on TV. That night, I went home and
completed the design for the leave form. The new printer was used to inspect
the lining and make sure that diagrams fitted comfortably on both folded sides
of the letter-sized page. I also had to go and learn how to use the textbook to
get work rotated upside down. The form is ready for print. I will have to wait
and see how much Isa will charge for a quote for it. I tried to catalogue one
library book, but tiredness overtook me. It was early, around minutes to 11 minutes.
Will have to see about it tomorrow.
Daryl
Zion M. Ali
(7:53 am – 3:25 pm)
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