St. George’s College (Week #72) – Day #330

Date for Entry: (Wednesday 05 June 2024)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Thursday 25 July 2024)

[T2, W:09 – WD39:, (Td:3)*].

Dear Diary,

    This morning I couldn't wake up and felt so sick. The ride to get to school was long and not easy at all. The office was empty as usual. I signed in and told Dr. Allison that I would be visiting her after recess. Many of the teachers were there in the staff room. I used the washroom first to blow my nose. The cold was still in effect. Class was about to start so I had to leave the cheese pie for recess.

    “Jess” was already there in the class when I got in. It looked like she was a few minutes late waiting for Susan to finish the roll call. Admin also wanted the teachers to find out their children's ethnicity and age. The class didn't get to do the performances again. Instead, they were placed in their groups and sucked the mangoes twice before the class with 1F.

    The entire music room had to be shifted around. It was very boring to wait. “Mr Hunt” and “Ms Williams-George” were still working on playing the mango song on the tenor pan. “Pablo” wanted to learn the rest so I helped him until it was time to stop. The three performances of mangoes were a bit rushed. A few mistakes were made. “Jess” and I marked the groups with one number for each member. She did the tallying afterwards.

    I met “Stephen” in the corridor and he wanted to borrow a pair of scissors. I told him that I would bring it to the art room. Recess ended up finishing. I took my time eating. I met “Stephen” back in the corridor. I took back the scissors after lending him. In the office, while I was knocking on the Vice Principal's office door, Ezekiel told me that Dr Allison was in a meeting. It was only when Mrs. Santana and “Miss Celia” came back to the staff room at lunchtime, that I realized that there was an M.M.T. meeting on day three.

    All of lunchtime I felt very lazy. I stayed with 1L children in class for “Jess” to come. They were not organized and “Jess” had to find her speakers. It was in the music room. Mrs Libert came to join us in the hall when the security guard came and told us that the air conditioning unit had a trip and could not stay on for long. That was the reason why they had to turn off all the lights in the hall too.

    It was very late into the double period and we did not start as yet. The session finished early and Mrs. Libert went back to the staff room. The children were kept back in the back of the hall opposite the stage when the air conditioning and lights tripped. I saw troublemaker Mr. Christian playing wrestling with another student from his class. There was a long wait. “Mr. Danclair” and I shared a joke about the mangoes before he left for the buses. Miss Gittens had left early too.

    Susan had a nice chat and “Gigi” left early as well. That night I got started on typing the Form 2 art exam but then they doubled the points and the art exam would have finished too quickly. Miss had to see her textbook in school so maybe tomorrow we will get more questions. I got a borrowing card for the APC library updated to edition 4 of the third version. It was after midnight when I was done. I went to bed quickly afterwards. Hopefully tomorrow the paper will be completed.

 

Daryl Zion M. Ali

(8:11 am – 4:08 pm)

St. George’s College (Week #72) – Day #329

Date for Entry: (Tuesday 04 June 2024)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Thursday 25 July 2024)

[T2, W:09 – WD:38, (Td:2)*].

Dear Diary,

    Yesterday the driver that picked me up was “Myron.” Today the driver was “Hanuman-Kumar” and it didn't take long for his maxi to be filled. Dion came in and sat in the back quickly. “Mr Bathelmy” sat in front of us. I got signed in in the office quickly and went to get breakfast finished and out of the way. Time was upon us for the first class.

    I got to 2M and “Jes” was not there. It was the same as if she got here late too. She messaged back late and told me to bring the children down to the music room. Only certain students had signed the attendance sheet. The children were given G major and F major scales to play with the arpeggios and then the school song for their assessment. This was repeated with the second group of that 2M class. Both groups had difficulty maintaining their rhythm and timing even if I kept the pulse at the top.

    Class with 1L was too long. The children were sent into their groups to work on their presentations for tomorrow. It did not seem as if some were ready, especially with the dances. One of the groups had an issue with a student being absent and they did not want him in the group. I had to let Miss Sort that one. Another boy got vexed and began to curse as soon as I entered the classroom. We had to chat outside before I entered the classroom. Many of the boys had to be shown the proper sitting posture for the African drum.

    Recess came and I went to ask Miss Gittens if she had her mark book but she took the questions out of my head saying that she had to look for it. She didn't know where the rest of the marks were. I remained with her to work on the mark book until 10 minutes before lunch finished. She had 1M and rain interrupted a cricket game outside.

    Dr. Allison came into the office with Susan and she opened up the office for us to work. There was supervision to send and then we began at the end of April. Only one teacher was remaining with pending information for the month. I got some writing done today for the journal entry. Both Dr. Allison and I worked until the end of school that evening.

    I had to wait and then call Mrs. Santana about her leave form and missing information to remind her to sign for it. I met her in the staff room and she said that she saw that I called her. She said that she would check it out in the office immediately that evening. We had a nice long chat after school too. We spoke about staff meetings and then exams.

    When I got home I was sleeping on myself. Daddy had to wake me up. He had bought me two small sausage rolls from Massy. I got dinner out of the way and then fell flat on the couch between “Castle” and another show. I was finally able to get up at 8:42 PM when the sun was completely gone. I finished the exam first. I wanted to get that out of the way before I got tired.

    Tonight I was able to get the test completed. I finished it and it was not easy. Nowhere in my flash drive was a copy of it. I knew I had saved it somewhere so I had to type the entire exam from scratch. I had to let Miss Gittens know and I got to work right away.

    This recreation of the Form 1 exam took four hours to complete. I had to do over the format and form type and fix images again into the document. One drawing was missing and had to be replaced by a seascape drawing for the children to do and then colour. The cover page was done over from scratch and then something brand new such as the instructions and the image design on the front cover. The exam totalled 94 points in questions. The other six points will have to be discussed with Miss as participatory points if they could go to the information on the cover.

    I had a rest and then went on to fix the borrowing card (3.3) which was the third edition of the third version. I ended up making a mistake in turning off the computer. The evening was tiring and I had to rest on the couch first before going back to the computer. Thankfully the pencil edits helped me with time. One extra time for a book title was added. The majority of loan details will be on the reverse side.

    I had a document set for Isa to print as a test print tomorrow. I hope this will be good please, Jesus. There wasn't much I could have gotten done for the evening again. I took a walk and fell asleep on the couch for a third night. It was very difficult to get to the bed.

 

Daryl Zion M. Ali

(8:04 am – 3:25 pm)

St. George’s College (Week #72) – Day #328

Date for Entry: (Monday 03 June 2024)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Thursday 25 July 2024)

[T2, W:09 – WD:37, (Td:1)*].

Dear Diary,

    This morning I came to school in a rush. There was no one in the office besides Dr. Blandin and the teachers. I saw Mrs. Leiba signing with Gina who came on the bus. I didn't have any pens in my pencil case. Luckily there was one in the office for me to use to sign. I had breakfast in the staff room and there was no sign of “Choo Choo” again.

    I went to see Dr. Allison and she was busy with the attendance so I worked on cutting the leaf forms and stapled them into batches by individual teachers. All of this was completed by the end of the third period. “Ms. Leader” was outside of Block K and she was wondering if the class had to go down to the music room. I kept them in their homeroom class and then tried to message “Jess.” She ended up coming to the class about 30 minutes to recess. Some of them were noisy but thankfully controllable.

    I waited in the office and Dr. Blandin. I had some time on my hands while waiting to write the journal entry. “Mr. John’s” mom came in. She was met by Mr. Martin and taken out of the office for a meeting. I got Dr. Allison's permission to enter her office and got started on the punching of the forms and placing them into their envelopes. These forms were the batches for April 2024. While putting in the forms for the business department, I learned that Mr. Raymond's middle name is Peter. It reminded me of Uncle Peter and when he said that Peter was my first word.

    I left the office and met Ms. Giddens in the corridor on my way to the art room. We spoke during lunchtime in the breeze. She shared a song for me to listen to. After school, it may come without the internet. I took a walk to Block K back there to share some of the Coca-Cola. I had two cups and left Miss out with Mr. Charles and Mrs. Santana.

    “Jess” and I waited outside to wait for Mr Bishop to finish taking roll. The class was called back into the corridor to line up properly. The entire class period went by so quickly. I got back to the staff room to hear Ms. Harris very loudly. She had some jokes for everyone about the office. It wasn't so nice for me to hear. She had some waiting.

    Ms Greenaway commented on how she hadn't seen Ms Giddens for a while. This discussion went on to CXC Visual Arts for this particular season. We spoke about a restaurant called Food King and they said I should check it out sometime. It sounded exciting but I don't know how much their prices are.

    That night when I got home, I received Ms. Gittens's song and I was able to get her mark book digitalized for tomorrow to continue inserting information for column description. I started to put in the pitch names for notes and versions for the church. This will be the 7th edition of version 2 (2.7).

    I ended up liking the show “Storage Wars” that night because there was a guy with my name in it. But his name was spelled D-A-R-R-E-L-L. But everyone didn't like him because he was good at winning. I was glad for that. Maybe I guess I could appreciate my first name when another person's first name is like that. They didn't mind the spelling. Daddy called me too while I was working to tell me that Andrew saw a History's Greatest Mysteries episode where they presented the theories about King Tut's death. I ended up watching that too in the middle of the Storage Wars episode.

    Right after that episode on Bravo, Captain Lee had another show called “Deadly Waters” where they spoke about two men in that episode who were involved in the murder of four persons on a ship. Once I saw the pictures of the two men, they looked very suspicious and I was right. They were the murderers of the four persons on board the ship. One of the men was pretending to be an FBI agent and tricked the other man into doing the work for him. That was the rest of the show.

    I'm not sure if they will have other episodes but it was nice to see Captain Lee again other than in a reality show. Then I finished very quickly and I had to stop. My eyes were starting to get blurry. This called for the end of the night.                                                                                                                         

 

Daryl Zion M. Ali

(7:55 am – 3:58 pm)

St. George’s College (Week #71) – Day #325

Date for Entry: (Wednesday 29 May 2024)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Monday 22 July 2024)

[T2, W:08 – WD:36, (Td:6)*].

Dear Diary,

    This morning was another challenge to wake up. I felt a light sore throat while getting up. There was a feeling to wear a T-shirt today. Only Dr. Blandin is in the office as usual. She was chatting with Mrs Ramsingh and then she called to let me know that 8:30 would be good to check her.

    In the staff room, the food was there already. I got a pen and went back to sign and complete the timesheet. “Mr. Dean” gave me the food when some of them started eating. Everyone loved the pepper that was given with the order.

    As soon as I was finished, I got a call from Kiel about the missing time for today. At first, I was very confused. When I got to the office and saw what he was saying, I told him that I usually leave it blank for the evening period. He packed up the documents away and then went to try and deliver them.

    I met with Miss Gittens in the corridor. She said that Aydan came to work on his art journal. I had to lend him my computer mouse for the day. Dr. Blandin said that the principal was coming to have a meeting. I packed up and left for her to eat. After recess, there was a hot argument between Donna and some parents. I went back to Block C because of this.

    While waiting in Block C and writing up my journal, Janessa asked me to help her put up some posters. They were French posters. We got some masking tape borrowed from Mrs. Sawh and we stuck them up by the cafeteria area. She held them up and I cut the tape and stuck them. Once this exercise was completed, I met Dr. Allison back on the corridor in front of Building A and she said that the meeting had just finished and that she would go to wash her hands and have food.

    I ended up in the conference room writing my journal entries. I was joined by a boy named Joshua and a girl named Hematie and we spoke in the same room until they left for roll call. They were sad to see some of the OGTs left and wanted to find out if I was leaving too. I went into the office again to meet Dr. Allison. I saw that Aficia was now sitting at the empty desk. That was interesting. Not sure who would be asked to move.

    Sadly, as soon as I finished moving into Language Arts, the principal came in and asked for a meeting. I told Dr. Allison that I'd have to leave and I would come back on Monday. She shook her head saying okay. I returned to Block K with my tray up and items in it. Many of the teachers had taken bank time that evening too, so the staff room was empty.

    I stayed back to hear Donna chatting in the back. By the end of school, the Coca-Cola was half empty. We had a while to wait. Miss Kittens had to babysit Matty for the evening. He was sleeping in the car. As we got up to cure, the rain began to pour down. Suzsan made a joke about being disappointed that I had no umbrella and I said me too. We both laughed it out together.

    Daddy met me by the terminal and we went by Isa for him to do the receipts for us to take the clearance for refunding. I hope that the meeting continues as planned tomorrow. The weather was very beautiful these past weekends, but not when it was flooding for real. That was something serious. God, please make provisions for a meeting to proceed as planned and lead us to the completion of the APC library report for the Christian Education Committee. 

    It took ISA a long while to formulate the bill, but it was accumulated bill for over seven different visitations in the shop. I didn't get much music done again, only in the battle belongs to the Lord. It seems as though that song might be put down for a while. I will have to wait to get some more ideas in it before it can be accomplished.

 

Daryl Zion M. Ali

(7:51 am – 3:49 pm)

Day #326 – (: am – : pm)

Day #327 – (: am – : pm)

St. George’s College (Week #71) – Day #324

Date for Entry: (Tuesday 28 May 2024)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Monday 22 July 2024)

[T2, W:08 – WD:35, (Td:5)*].

Dear Diary,

    This morning as I got to Lockhart Street, I saw “Shiraz” out by the road. It was nice that he was the driver. “Mr. Berthelmy” was with me and another Georgian girl. Thankfully, again, it was not hard or long to cross the road. Ms. Mustafa was chatting with Dr. Allison. As I was about to leave, she stopped me to ask for help. I was about to tell Dr. Allison that I wanted to get breakfast out of the way first. I had a pie and then packed up to go back down to see her in the administration office.

    As soon as I got in, I took out the envelopes from the black bag and showed her what I purchased yesterday. I mentioned that the lines had to be drawn in and then the holes were punched before I gave it to her. The specialist room was noisy with Mrs Noons-Charles’ class. The folders were all finished, ruled, and Block K as I waited for the dynamics lesson with 1M.

    “Jess” got in right before me. She came back into the classroom to run the excerpts that were sent to her last night over WhatsApp. I had a table drawn up on the board for the children to copy and it was filled out after each playing. Each excerpt was played twice. The criteria were language, instruments, and volume.

    The students were introduced to the term dynamics afterwards and then a note was given with the Italian symbols, Italian names, and then their meaning. Once this was completed, in the first period, “Jess” tried to investigate the online quiz. Some of the children had problems entering the online platform that she used. Not many of the students had their cellular devices or a laptop to do the quiz in the second period.

After recess, I had gotten all the scotch tape onto the envelopes for the forms of 2023. The 2L class was taken down to the music room. They worked on the G major scale on their steel band instruments and got into the college song for the remainder of the session. The room was very hot again. I got to use a tok-tok to help the children keep the timing, but they really could not keep up with their parts.

    I told Jess that I would not be there for the choir session this afternoon. I went back to the office, but Dr. Blanding said that she preferred to eat in her car with some music to relax and get away from the crowd in the office. So, I waited in Block C for her. Some of the teachers were talking about the envelopes for the leave and absence forms that I made. Mrs. Sawh told me that Dr. Blandin went and took out the envelopes to show her. She said she looked very excited when she was telling me.

    Shiva told me if I found any of his forms to throw them away in the bin. He laughed. Dr. Allison came into Block C to find me and told me that she was done with lunch. She must have left and walked out of the room. We met back in the office after Ms Greenaway and Mrs Noons-Charles met her. Ms Harris had another quarrel that was unnecessary with her. I then went inside and we were able to check out some of the missing information in the Ministry's Excel file. Only about nine teachers to go again with outstanding forms.

    That night, I got the introduction to the “Battle of Belongs to the Lord” completed. Then, I went back off to writing the names of the teachers on the envelopes. Not sure where the treasury tags were stored. I had been looking for them all day long but nowhere to be found. I felt so tired afterwards. I ended up drinking out of the bottle of water and almost half. This was the Blue Mountain bottle. I ended up heating down in sweat before taking a shower that night and fell asleep on the couch again for a second night. A new song was introduced to me called "Tokyo Hotel."

 

Daryl Zion M. Ali

(7:39 am – : pm)

St. George’s College (Week #71) – Day #323

Date for Entry: (Monday 27 May 2024)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Monday 22 July 2024)

[T2, W:08 – WD:34, (Td:4)*].

Dear Diary,

    Over the weekend the rain had flooded Ria's yard and her road was closed off. Alex had some car trouble so sadly we could not have the meeting again. The performance in the church went well. Daddy and I both fell back asleep and I got to church at 7:10 AM for the most. It was still a long service but it went well.

    This morning on Lockheart Street “Mr. Gill” was in the front seat. The driver was “Marquise” and the back seat passengers were angry that he swung up to the small gas station down the road. Thankfully the road was easier to cross. No one was there in the office either. Dr. Blandon was probably in the assembly. As soon as Miss Dana walked into the office I heard the Principal asking her to hold the door open for her.

    I had time to pack for class except for breakfast. The assembly went through all of the first period. Many of the teachers were now coming in also. We were not sure if the two of us were going to the music room. Even “Jess” was late and coming out of her car. We greeted each other seeing Miss Santana coming out of her car too.

    I went down the corridor for “Jess” to let me know if to bring the children to the room. She said yes. It took some time for the children to get down to the music room. They had to write out the G major scale along with the note on Indian classical sargam. She did the discussion but there was no Wi-Fi in the classroom for the playing of YouTube videos as examples.

    I went back to the staff room to get breakfast at recess time. I heard some surprise music from Mr. Charles this morning. I hope the panadol that I gave him was good. Dr. Blandon and I got the science and mathematics department section dates and absences entered into the Excel document. There were still some teachers with outstanding forms to submit.

    I returned to the staff room to fill out my timesheet in advance for this week's admission. The brownies that Miss Dana brought were amazing. I forgot to take a picture of it. It looked like Dr Blandon was on a query hunt when I returned. “Miss Evelyn” from 1L was in the waiting area and at 12 as her exit form was being prepared.

    “Jess” was also waiting to see Dr. Blandon. She came and we had a review of numbers entered while copying and pasting the Excel document into the Ministry's document. My first attempt was a failed surprise. The result was R.E.F. and I forgot that the tallied figures were from a formula. Copying and pasting had to be done from values. Once I tried again it worked. Dr. Allison was very excited and had a nice laugh. We got a large amount of entries inserted. About 13 teachers with missing information to complete April 2024.

    Mrs. Ramsingh came and then we had food about MLA. I enjoyed the aroma of Mrs. Santana's curry filling the air in the staff room. If I knew she was going to use hand towels as a mat I would have given her two sheets of my newspaper. Lunchtime was over too quickly.

    I had to remember to take two of them down to the room again. They were very noisy and disruptive. I just had to shout. Praise God the notes from this morning were still there so I did not have to write it over. I had them copy it and “Jess” came in after. She asked me to go and get the speaker box. Some of the children were dancing to the Sarugam music. Just gave me the singing to go through the G major scale with arpeggio and it was very difficult. The room was too hot.

    Finally, the class came to an end. I got home to find excerpts for the lesson on dynamics. “Jess” had suggested that one can be classical, pop and one can be local. I found one from Adele, Skyfall. To find a local I was guided to Dr. Samaroo's “Song of Lopinot” which I ended up conducting at UWI for an assessment and in the intermediate ensemble. I was glad that she had no objections to the chosen pieces.

    The rest of the evening was taken to finding the chords for music transcriptions. Those chords were to the song “The Battle Belongs to the Lord”. That night I had my birstol board sheets counted. There were 53 sheets but I thought I had less than 50. This other half will go to the APC library.

    The green ones I bought today will go to George's teachers and the other half of the pink 100 will go to the library also. The Bristol board sheets were folded, creased and jotted. The lines will have to go in tomorrow in school. I ended up making a baguette or popcorn for below deck after having five dark chocolate biscuits. Daddy said it would be nice.

 

Daryl Zion M. Ali

(7:43 am – 3:28 pm)

St. George’s College (Week #70) – Day #322

Date for Entry: (Friday 24 May 2024)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Monday 22 July 2024)

[T2, W:07 – WD:33, (Td:3)*].

Dear Diary,

    This morning I had to get up and rush. I ended up sleeping back. I got to school and went to the Pentecostal religious instruction. Somehow Crystal was the person leading the session again. I was asked by Miss Pope yesterday evening why I did not go to the event they had for Crystal. But I had to tell her that I did not know they were having an event for Crystal. This was in the evening after school.

    Her scripture for the session was from Ecclesiastes. I will have to do some more research to find the right part of the scripture she was referring to. She mentioned that there was a time for different things. She also mentioned a lot of things occurring in the school and some of those things have hurt me. Part of the lesson was about a time and place for everything.

    I had my pie eaten as quickly as I could. “Jess” got into the staff room and I went to 1M with her there. The class was short because of religious instructors this morning. 1M had a late start. They decided to do their French assignment and it took 20 minutes of their ‘teaching’ time. I heard they had a PE class right after recess and because of that, they would not have been able to work on it.

    Riley told me they had a colouring of the French flag and a word in French that had to be used in an English sentence. I was not sure at first how that would have been done but I took a look at what some of the other students were doing. I hope they will be able to complete the project and that their presentations will be fine. The rest of the session was to work on the Mango's presentation.

    Some of the groups had their dances and costumes tried out for me. We learned that Riley tried to ask for permission from me but he didn't ask the question for them to work on the French project. It took a longer while for the period to finish. I took the opportunity to give the children back their practical marks slips from term 1 which I still had. Only one boy didn't get back his sheet of paper. I hope it was still in the set where the others were sharing from.

    I forgot that there was an MMT meeting today. It's probably the reason why many teachers and Dr. Allison wasn't around. There was an issue with Ayden's journal not being found and Nicholas's journal not being able to print. Nicholas had no transport to get his journal to a specific store to print. It was very shocking to hear that Aydan's journal disappeared altogether. He would end up having to do over the entire journal.

    I met “Jan” in the corridor after lunch. She was wondering if there was something bad that I had to speak with her. Not sure where “Jess” was. We spoke in the corridor after lunch. I told her that I'd meet her in the staff room after school instead. When the 1F door opened, Ms. Jones came out but Jessop was not inside.

    The children were sent into their groups to plan their dance, skit and singing of the Mango Song. This double period was also a bit too long to finish. The drummers for the groups used tabletops and padded chairs as their drums for practice.

    At some point during the MMT meeting, I recall getting my times out for leaving the compound updated in the OJT logbook. All of them were transferred to my journal for when the timesheet deadline came around. This evening when I got home, I didn't feel like doing much. As soon as Daddy left, I fell asleep on the couch from 4:30 to 10:58 PM in the night.

    I went to the computer and did some more typing for the library minutes. I hope it happens and goes well tomorrow. That is if the others can attempt to come to a meeting in the library. Thankfully things are working out fine. It doesn't matter if I'll have to do some more stuff but I'll get it done. And I pray that the library will be successful and that it will grow eventually over time.

 

Daryl Zion M. Ali

(8:02 am – 3:59 pm)

St. George’s College (Week #70) – Day #321

Date for Entry: (Thursday 23 May 2024)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Monday 22 July 2024)

[T2, W:07 – WD:32, (Td:2)*].

Dear Diary,

    This morning I got up with a fight awake. The road was clear and there was only one Georgian girl that came in to fill the maxi. Thankfully we did not get into trouble to cross the road. The assembly was long and Miss Jones was having her awards as part of the assembly. I didn't understand why it had to be part of the assembly. This was probably the reason why it took so long for class to begin.

    We only had one period or piece of one period with 2M. Miss Gittins gave me the numbers for the journal booklets and then I went to get prepared for the first class. I met “Jess” out in the corridor. She told me to go and get two 2M by the time but while I met her back in the lobby, she said to go to the music room and make sure that they didn't lock up the door.

    However, when I met “Miss Alicia” I saw “Miss Gloria” and she said that she had locked up the room. “Miss Gloria” got vexed that Jess didn't have her keys. Another guard came to open up for us. The class got to practice the college song and had to leave quickly. I brought down 1L to the music room. The Muslim students got to sit outside by the back of the room and the students practiced singing the Mangoes song before going into their separate groups.

    It was nice to see the children try the African drums but they seriously needed to work out their rhythmic pattern. “Jess” and I tried to get energy. We were both exhausted at recess time. We waited for the free students from 2M to come back and do the college song worksheet. This worksheet would have been 25 marks was their coursework.

    We both left the room and I took a while to fix up to go to 2F. She was already there and did the G major scale notation on the whiteboard. She introduced them to Indian classical Sargam and listed some instruments and genres that related to Indian classical music. Today was very difficult to go through. Somehow I felt alienated. I sat on the bench outside the art room doing my journal entry.

    I met “Ash” out in the same corridor and he was asking about the required clothing to leave the compound during this aid period. I wasn't sure how to guide him so I told him he could ask his mom. Suvir shared with me a secret about coconut oil. I'm not sure if I'll be able to try it out or if I'll remember when I get the time.

    Miss Harris and her mom sat outside Mr. Baines' woodwork room while I wrote the entry. I met Miss Susan outside the staff room. Again she didn't tell me anything about “Maria” being absent. Not sure if she is still angry with me for not helping out at sports day. I went home to play some music. The Phoenix was sent to recovery.

    I played some music and got the donation card and the memorial donation card cut out by the guillotine. Some of the spacing was too small. I will have to make the margins smaller to have them less corrupted. I got tired and could not work on typing for church again. It seems like the simple work is going to take some more time and effort than required but I still feel confident that I'll be able to do it. Lord Jesus be my help and guide.

 

Daryl Zion M. Ali

(8:10 am – 3:11 pm)

St. George’s College (Week #70) – Day #320*

Date for Entry: (Wednesday 22 May 2024)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Monday 22 July 2024)

[T2, W:07 – WD:31, (Td:1)*].

Dear Diary,

    Last night I saw the Principal's reply. I will go in the 5th period to see if she is there. This morning on Lockhart Street, the driver was “Hassan”, it was so nice to see him again. I got a sign-in and then went to the staff room. Mr. Harry and Miss Harris had to borrow the pen before I left for the staff room. I realized that it had been a long while since I got here with fewer people.

    Miss Mustafa was happy to get a copy of the song that I left for her in the staffroom. Miss Sookhan joined us and she shared a joke. It took me a while to settle in. Miss Gittens had asked me to check the exam envelopes and then verify if the members of the candidates were right down in the exam room. I left the yellow envelope on the wall on the desk so she could check it and find it easily.

    The class with 1F was in the music room. “Mr. Hosein” was mopping up the room and he told me what had happened. They were reviewing the Mango song and then each group was separated in different areas of the room to plan out their performance. I liked the dance that Miss Brown's group was choreographing.

    I helped “Mr Hunt” notate the Mango song while “Miss Williams-George” practised it with him. “Pablo” tried a double tenor pan. He was doing well and I was very proud of him. He just had to work on the timing of the song. The difference between rolling and hitting seemed to be an issue that he didn't quite understand as yet. I had to use the washroom and then went to see if the principal was there.

    Entering the office, I asked Miss Mohamed if she could see if the principal was available. It seemed as if “Miss Gloria” was in there and they were talking about something serious. I had to wait until Miss Gloria left and then the principal came out.

    She took me into the room and I greeted her. The conversation went through and many stuff that could have been discussed were left out. I did not want an argument. It was just very hurting to see that things would have turned to this. I'm not sure how long the discussion went on but at some point, it had to be cut off because she had to see two boys that were in a situation. I hope that one day she will see what she is doing and fix it.

    Lunchtime came by quickly. I was not sure what would be happening with 2F today. I felt like going somewhere but nowhere to go on the compound. Miss Jessop had gone gotten the topics for the four months for her quiz. The rest of the evening went with 2F playing the college song on the steel pans. Jesse tried to get the double ten apart. It was good to see him, Ari, try and get the first two lines on ten apart.

    In Curepe, I went to see Iza to get copies of the memory card and the donation card. They looked really beautiful when I held them in my hands but there will be some excess changes to do. There will also be excess cutouts to do with using the guillotine. I did not get to do much in the evening except for some typing for 2F. I hope that Jess will have enough time to prepare for the quiz that she said she would have to do.

 

Daryl Zion M. Ali

(7:35 am – 2:57 pm)