A visit
I was mobbed today and it felt like I was a film star. I went back to school for a visit and was surrounded by ex-students who wanted a glimpse of me. Walking out of the lift, I tried to make a run for the staff room when I was stopped by students greeting me in the corridor. I barely escaped and stepped into the staffroom, spoken to a colleague and turned around, when there was a huge crowd of students which had built up outside. They were all excited and were talking all at once. It was quite difficult to try and understand all of them. Even worse was trying to respond to all of them. As I opened my mouth to speak, a voice boomed,“Stop making so much noise in the corridor” . The students turned to see where the voice was coming from, turned back and continued shooting questions at me. I could see they had missed me and it was good to bask in all that attention. Some were just content to stand and stare. Still, the noise was getting louder and disturbing the other classes, so I just smiled, gave out hugs and sent them back to class.