My job is tough, I'm an underpaid, predominantly undervalued primary school nursery nurse.
The past two years have been tougher than ever, working throughout a pandemic, with no mask and in close contact with 30 children everyday for 6 hours has been more than stressful.
Yesterday three new children started in my class. All had never met me, have limited English and have never been left by their parents.
I met them at the gate and yes, there were tears but in less than 30 minutes they were playing, smiling at me and (mostly) enjoying their day at school.
It's been a hard week, we're short staffed and I've dragged myself in some days but yesterday really gave me a boost.
I will never stop being amazed at just how wonderful and resilient children are, I'm 50 and no way could you chuck me in a room of strangers that way, particularly if I could barely understand the language they spoke!
Just had to share this, not sure why!