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Dream #14
Forwarded July 27, 2002
Edited for website by RF2292
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Dream 14 (Sathya)
Submitted: July 27, 2002
Title: Cake Chasing, Boat Building
Characters (graduation years in brackets): Everyone in school (to mention a few, Lyndsay [2004], Colleen [(2004], Cody Chaffins [2003], Thomas Crawford [2004], Tabby Khan [2005], Priya [2005], Jenny Tuggle [2005], Bhavika Patel [NYLF person]
Setting: Humungous pool, with three big boats hung across it, a club of some sort, with a dancing room (outside the dancing room was a ballroom with a lot of tables set up for a dinner).
Situation: Four other people and I have to do this project for our big group (about 25 people), which was to make a buoyant ship out of paper. And then all of the other subgroups in our big group are going to put all of the little ships together to form a bigger ship, on the far right of the pool.
Our subgroup hadn't gotten much done. It was nighttime, and I hadn't gone to the dancing room last night, and I heard it was "rockin". I decided to go this night to check it out. As I was walking through the ballroom I see Bhavika at a table. I stroll over and ask her if she would like to join me (apparent answer: yes). So we go into the dancing room and everyone is sitting in a circle, just chillin' (so to speak).
I see Thomas and there are two empty spotso next to him. I run over and sit next to him, but suddenly there's barely enough room for me to fit, let alone Bhavika. Consequently, I felt bad because Bhavika had no place to sit. I guess I got over that, though. She went somewhere, and I stayed there with Thomas. It was pretty good that no one was dancing because this atmosphere was a lot better for me [one who can't dance at all!].
We were talking and such, then someone from my subgroup comes in and gets three of us out of there to discuss how we're going to finish the project. We get that settled and return to the dance room, but there's now a security guard saying that the boats are leaving and we can't be there. We see the first boat leaving the "port", which is filled with little kids, as was the second boat. Then we tell him that we were in the third boat (the largest of the three). The dancing room had apparently turned into the third boat, and we were all magically wearing our bathing suits.
He lets us in and I find Thomas again. Then magically we are not in the boat anymore, but in the three-foot deep shallow end of the pool, watching the three boats (stretched across the pool). This is now the competition to see whether the boats would float or not. Now they are whatever yachts are made out of and look really nice. The first two boats are hanging above the water, and ours (the one that I helped create, but not really because our group didn't finish) was in the water showing off that it could float.
The first two boats at the competition messed up because they couldn't get it (the boat) into the water nicely. Ours, however, worked pretty well, paying off in a competition win. Then someone came with a HUGE cake and took it to the far end of the pool, on top of this construction tower kind of thing and everyone took off after it. Thomas swam like a bullet, leaving me alone. Then I found Tabby. Some people were running outside of the pool and others gave up, jumped into the pool and swam to the cake. I chose to run, but Tabby deserted me and jumped into the pool as well. It's weird because it's faster to run outside of water than to swim in it.
I started to walk and I came spotted Priya and Jenny. Priya was too far up for me to try to catch her, so I kept walking. Then I saw Lyndsay and Colleen, with Lyndsay wearing bright red pants and a jean jacket. She kind of stood out, as everyone else was wearing bathing suits. But they had both just gotten out of the pool. Lyndsay was dry (don't ask me how). Anyway, they were also too far up so I didn't try to catch them.
Suddenly Lyndsay appeared beside me. She had seen me and come to talk. She said she couldn't leave Colleen for that long, and breaks off running. Then I start running after her and say that I'll hang with them (just kind of invited myself; it was better than walking alone).
When we reached Colleen, she was talking with some guy and was like "Well, I'll be in Paris for a few days and you can meet me at the Cafe D Lach (or something like that).” She sounded really posh, though, and I started making fun of her, then broke off and said something to Lyndsay about not knowing that she went to Europe.
Meanwhile, as were walking we see Cody Chaffins with a huge piece of cake. We get to the platform where the cake is supposed to be and its not crowded at all, so we wonder if there's any left. But we go up and see anyway.
---End of dream---
Other notes: The pool, by the way, had to be like a half mile to a mile long, if it took me that long to walk/run from one end to the other end.
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