That first day, I mean the very first proper day

when we had our first group session together

and you sat at the back of the room with what I

would have called the cool kids thirty years before,

leaving, stranding me beside the battered front desk

of a tutor who spoke too fast and in a language

that well as might have been based in Maths, Fortran or

Gobbledegook,

your blonde hair shone and shimmered as much as it did

for the following three years in which it was my honour