Date for Entry: (Monday 09 December 2024)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Friday 02 May 2025)
[T1, W:15 – WD:*].
Dear Diary,
This weekend's talent show was cancelled because of no requests for community police. This
request needed to be submitted a week before and was not approved. The call
from Dr Soodeo was swift on the night before. All of the decorations would have
to be returned. It was nice of Mel to visit too, on the same day, to get her
comments in. This morning, the rain kept me at home. I had a very good
awakening at 7:30. Daddy was telling me that if I didn't want to go that I
could stay home, but I still decided to go.
The main road at
that time was just like the weekend. I kept my umbrella in my hand just in
case. The Curepe pie was stuck in my bag as soon as I got on the bus. The
driver was kind enough to stop for me to get in. Two of the nice songs that he
played were "She's Still Loving Me" and "Don't Diss the
Man". Not sure if I would be successful in turning them into steelpan
arrangements. The pie ladies on Sixth Avenue were playing nice calypso music. I
got two lines to rhyme in the end about the "big ass fool". Lolz,
that was a good laugh.
As soon as I got
into the compound, I went to the staffroom to have my ham and cheese pie first
under the air conditioning to cool off before going into the hall. I used the
washroom one time, as it might be a long while since I was in there. Mr
Marcelle greeted me at the entrance of the hall, shook my hand and walked me
in.
From afar, we
were looking at the band practising a part of the verse on loop, and he was
telling me that everyone was playing something wrong in it. He sat by the
keyboard that was used from the Christmas Programme last Wednesday, and the 3
Cello Section Leader was beating the toc-toc. Seth had asked me for wipes, and
I joked, telling him, "Manny" and Kalid that they were for six
dollars a sheet. The children were given recess from 10:39 to 10:55. Mr
Marcelle shared some strange accounts of Friday evening after I had been long
gone from the compound.
The practice
went on for the rest of the day. It was nice of Mr Marcelle to have two copies
of the score printed. I got two bulldog clips from inside for me and him. The
printing was done by flipping on the long side instead of flipping on the short
side. So we had to put the bulldog clip on the long side. I got to sit in the
staffroom during lunchtime for a few moments. It was short because Sir decided
to take back his time.
The frontline
people were only making noise at one time before lunch when he had asked me to
distribute music for the cellos and guitars. The 3 Cello Section Leader was
good. "Vannah" was getting confused all the time. I had to call Sir
over to help with the last page of that section. After lunch, we continued in
the same part, and I ended up teaching Miss "Williams-George" since
she wasn't being taught. I was able to teach her three pages of that section.
The last page for it will be difficult.
I got an incredible
tiredness that just dropped on me sometimes before practice was over. I think
everyone was feeling it too. "Manny" ended up breaking the broken
drumstick. He finally decided to listen to me by turning it the other way. He
could not hit it anymore. Thankfully, there was a broken piece of either a mop
or a broom that I took and hit the toc-toc instead. Everyone's eyes were opened to see the huge stick in my hand, beating the toc-toc.
There was one
more run-through of the song, which was counted by me at 'a tempo', and the
music was over 5 minutes. "Patty" and I spoke this evening when she
came to pick up Vade. It was nice to see "Vara too. We will have to see
about the pan practices another time. That night, I got the song "Hit and
Run" fully transcribed with chords. I don't think I will want to work on
the steelpan arrangement for it. I started working on "Be Without
You", but it didn't work out for the introduction, as I thought so I stopped
that.
The
"Hallelujah Challenge" will have to remain a transcription, too. The
COAG song in the 6-8 meter too will remain transcription. I left both of them
as they were in case I choose to go back and work on them in the future. I
started a hymn for completion tonight. Maybe tomorrow it will be accomplished,
and then I plan to work on "That's My King" by CeCe Winans. The night
was over, and I really couldn't make it anymore. I was feeling like my eyes were
swelling again, so I had to try and make it to bed. Getting up from the couch
was not easy either.
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Daryl
Zion M. Ali
(10:34 am – 3:37 pm)
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