The good news is that everything is going well. I have hundreds of pages to read before Anna comes on Thursday, but those fleeting anxieties will dissipate the instant she lands. I cannot wait for those five days.

The programme here is excellent. They invest a considerable amount in their students. But they demand just as much. It is a quid pro quo exchange.

I feel like I could do great things here. But I also feel small in this community. A caterpillar in its earliest stages.