Oh, teachers who've inspired me ... This fortnight I'm back in my hometown, around 6 years after leaving school. The day after I arrived I spent 7 hours at my old school. All of my teachers are excellent people and several of them have remained good friends. But for real inspiration, top marks to my GCSE French teacher who would never speak to me in English (I'm now bilingual), and who instructed encouraged me to join a lunchtime group encouraging environmental awareness on the school campus. She then instructed encouraged me to be student co-ordinator. I ended up majoring in Environmental Studies with a minor in French.