Date for Entry: (Thursday, 23 January 2025)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Friday 02 May 2025)
[T2, W:03 – WD:14,
(Td:2)*].
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Dear Diary,
This morning was
a quick trip to school. I got in a maxi, and two were behind, ready to go. The
Anglican school was now singing the National Anthem while I was crossing the
road to get to the savannah side. I wanted to pay for the pies and then pack up
to get to 2L. Jess was not there, so I waited with the children. I put them to
work on their soca song. A lot of them were still missing parts and had no
melody as yet. She came in the last ten minutes of class. I did not stay around
but went to get breakfast.
"Patty"
had called me on the phone during the second period to ask to assist Miss
Mohammed with the leave forms for Miss Paul. When I got there, the office was
slightly in a buzz as usual. It so happened that they were talking about that
transcript for a student who was trying to apply to university. They decided
that the student was the more urgent matter since it could not wait much more
time. There was one file that Miss Mohammed gave to me, and she handed me a
short slip of paper with the name of the student to look for.
Strangely
enough, the student was not found in any of the class listings. I checked
through the entire folder three times, and she came to look through it the
fourth time. Still not named. We did look through the correct year (2012) of
class listings. I left to go and get some things that I didn't know I needed
from my desk. Candice was with Indera and Patty in the Vice Principal's office.
They had found a third file with the right name. She gave me the file from
2012, showed me the name of the student and then gave me a sheet of paper just
like the horrifying-looking teachers' register.
I will have to
make over this awful-looking document sometime this weekend. I went by the
register desk, and she said, "You're looking through the three terms for
each subject and picking out the highest number." She confirmed that it
was to be done for both term mark and exam mark, for each subject, Forms 1 to
5. I sat at the computer desk and did this work from recess to the middle of
the eighth period.
There was a
method I created that made the work easier to do. I got scrap paper and wripped
them into strips. They had no scissors in the office, so I had to use mommy's
method by crasing the pages on both sides and then ripping them. I wrote out
the numbers in rows by the terms and then circled the numbers. That's the only
way I got numbers into the sheets so quickly. I kept the scraps for Candice
when I gave them to her.
After school, I
went to Isa quickly to see if he was able to do the prints for me to update the
Tunapuna Presbyterian Primary School song booklets. He didn't have time, so I
left my bags with him to open up the staples from the booklets, and then I will
get back to him. I went home to have Rustic that night. There were some light
changes on the teacher's punctuality and regularity form that I had made for
them. Indera gave me a copy of the newly updated list. I did not bother to make
many changes when it came to HODS that are acting again.
The rest of the night was spent creating a sheet for the transcript numbers. It looked good. There were subjects like computer literacy and typing that most likely are no longer taught at the school. I left the Information Technology there. The rest of the document was left incomplete by having empty portions of the paper to see what other type of information is required to make the process easier for the Admin. Four paintings were done that evening before doing all of this work. I ended up having an early night's end. Could not remain awake again.
Daryl
Zion M. Ali
(8:02 am – 3:42 pm)
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