It’s not even been a week and I’m tired. A month of module outlines, academic health reports, assessment jigsaws, timetables, workloads… being asked to take on a new module three days before life starts. I’ve got an 
eye infection and my daughter’s just left home for three months in Sri Lanka. I’m thinking maybe I should join her. I can do au pairing. How hard can it be? I look at the new students. Has something changed? Why are they all younger than they used to be?
Then I get a text from an ex-student and I remember what it’s all for.