They're Back!

Well, college starts today for our new students, and many of the returning ones are also already back.  I've been rushing up and down the campus since early this morning, checking on my "babies" (the new students) to make sure they're all there - all 8 of them it seems, as the second semester intake is not only small, but some are still struggling with flights and visas.  We expect a total of merely 20 new by the time registration closes.
 
Usually we get a nice, quiet mid-year break, with all the students and many of the staff away on holiday.  This year it was filled with intensive classes, teacher-training upgrades, and more noise than we expected.  Didn't feel like a holiday break at all.
 
So it's back to the usual semester routine from today on.  Tomorrow my son starts his third term of the school year and the next holiday will be when my parents arrive to visit from Australia at the end of September.  Time is flying past this year - I guess the older one gets, the more over the hill, the more speed you really DO pick up!