However, at the second interview, the picture had changed: Hardly anybody complained about home-sickness. They had acquired some house-keeping and financial skills, and showed signs of adjusting to academic demands. Interestingly, they also had changed their academic aspirations. While nearly all the beginners had high expectations of ‘doing really well’ on their particular course, they had significantly lowered their targets to ‘not failing the year’ perhaps because they had received their first feedbacks from tutors on their academic work!