I sat all alone in the cinema. The film that I had been forced to watch was tedious all the way through until the last scene when – at last – it all made sense. All the main female characters confessed that they were engineers. The whole point of the film was to encourage women into engineering.

Afterwards I tried to leave the building, but it was very difficult. The staircase to the main reception was so steep that I risked falling and breaking my neck each time that I took a step.