Saw some international students today. About 30 of them - from all over the world. They were getting their uni induction and I was the library segment of that. 5-10 minutes I'd been told. I was last after a student told them about student life, a study skills promotion, the chaplaincy etc.

Not often I get a chance to do greetings in a dozen languages and it's both useful and appropriate! Just about managed to do it without any critical errors. (Though I did manage to mistake the German "cat jump" for a "duck jump" - don't know where that came from. I can't even recall why I was trying to say something was a "stone's throw away" anyway.)

As no one else is likely to blow my trumpet for me, I'd just like it noted that I (uniquely) got a round of applause after my presentation. I'd been particularly pleased with a nicely building/fading PowerPoint slide with the different floors of the library, and a photo that showed an iceberg only for a 'reveal' to then show the underwater extent of the 'berg. (The point being that the physical resources you can see in the library are only a fraction of what we have if you include electronic material.)

I wish them well in their time here.