Английский язык B2

 

Last month, I attended a reunion of students who had been on the same course as me at university ten years earlier. When I left university, I didn’t keep in touch with many people – just my closest friends and one or two of the lecturers – so I didn’t know who or what to expect. When I arrived at the hotel where the reunion was being held, most of the guests had already arrived. They were chatting in small groups, or in the queue for food, or at the bar. Everyone seemed to have someone to talk to except me. I made my way to the bar and stood patiently waiting for the barman to notice me. After what seemed an age, I was tapped on the shoulder and someone shouted, ‘I don’t believe it! You, at the university reunion!’ I turned round quickly and was faced with a man of about my age that I didn’t recognize at all. He seemed to know me though, and continued, ‘How are you? What have you been doing since we left?’ Instead of explaining that I didn’t know him, I found myself replying, ‘I’m fine. I, erm, I work in computing now, but I spent five years abroad working as a voluntary teacher.’ For the next hour, this man told me his whole life story while I was desperately searching for someone that I knew. I managed to talk to a couple of my old lecturers, but my strongest memory of the evening was that I had had a reunion with someone that I didn’t even know!