Date for Entry: (Monday 10 March 2025)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Friday 01 August 2025)
[T2, W:10 – WD:43,
(Td:4)*].
Dear Diary,
Today I took a
while to wake up. I didn't bother to go to the 2L class that we had. Jess sent
a message saying that she was not coming today. I went to pay for the pies.
When I came back, I sat at my desk. Jess had asked me to do some work with the
Form 3s on scales and the arpeggios. I didn't find that was enough, so I
recycled the exam for "Mr Lalman" 2F exam and worked it out with them
as if it were a CXC past paper.
Sadly, I did not
find the computerised version, but the handwritten version for the students. We
discovered that this handwritten one was incomplete on the reverse side. I
could not keep the children in there with pans all over the room when it was open.
That was Jess's job to get the children to clean up. There was a Form 6 girl
for music, and she told me that there was going to be a class in there and that
Roberts was not coming today. Even Shiva came by to let me know that he was
coming to fix the projector in the music room. The student shared with him the
time for the class.
I had the class
locked back up and then went with her to give Mel the keys for safekeeping. The
two, if then, planned out what could happen, but I went off to find the Form
3s. I returned my eating dish first. On my way past the hall, I saw
"Vannah" and Seth. They said that they were going to the music room.
We turned around and then went to their Homeroom. I handed out the worksheets,
and then we got started.
Had to run to
the office first to get tissue paper to erase the board. The students were
taught by example with "EG". Seth and "Vannah" were
surprised to see it this way. The rest of the students were coming in late
because we were not in the music room. The next question was on intervals. They
forgot everything from Form 1 when I did the topic. Some of them looked
confused, but some of them also understood the work. Recess time came by. Two
students had asked me to correct their papers for them.
I went to get
the pies and went over to the staffroom. I needed some more time after recess
to finish up. I went to ask Mel about the students and their session in the
music room. She said that the Form 6s session was still going on. There was no
sign of the Form 4s around, so I left and went to the office. Teachers came in
and out and got copies.
At some time in
the evening, Roberts came to school and asked for her copies to be made. It was
only late in the evening that she came back and had to get a sheet made over.
The form was created on paper wider than a legal-sized sheet. The evening
finished late for me, alone in the office, doing copies and printing test
paper. I had the regular copies batched up and delivered to the teachers'
desks.
I travelled up
and met Daddy. Nadara had sent me a nice cheesecake that evening, too. I will
wait until the other cake is over. When it was time to do project work at
night, I realised that I did not have my folder or my pencil case. They were
left in school. Instead, I decided to do more typing for the workbook.
The first lesson
was completed after a long time. The idea of using a crossword generator was
nice, but they gave you work limits for all the clues to each word, and/or made
you have to pay for them. I decided to get the programme to arrange the layout
of the words, print them out and recreate the graph in Word. It was harder work
to do, but much better. The long way's idea worked out.
The day’s tiredness
began to come in, and that was all that I could have done. It was nice being
the only Music Teacher today. I thank God this day was a nice one in some way,
even though it was exhausting. It did not turn out to be a broken and
over-emotional one as it does.
Daryl Zion M. Ali
(7:44 am – 4:55 pm)
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