I was waiting outside of a storefront in a dimly lit alley. Someone came by and I told them that I didn’t live here when they asked. Dawn was just breaking when I saw my dad so I asked him if he was having a long night or simply woke up early. It turned out to be a long night as he had just gotten back from Stockholm. He commented on how “Americans don’t like to work”.

I was walking behind everyone else when someone attempted to shoot at me from behind. “I thought I was supposed to be invisible!” I exclaimed as I jumped to the side. I stopped by the side of the dirt road in the garden under the moonlight. I tried to listen for footsteps of anyone following but failed to do so.

I was setting my alarm to go off at 4:44 AM and every other minute afterwards while some friends were discussing which Olympic event they wanted to go to next. One person was talking about how South Africa had recently bought a bunch of land from its neighbors and now had the longest coastline in the entire world.

We were taking a break from constructing a robotic hand by going to the convenience store. I wandered along the aisles without much intention of buying anything. Someone asked me if the “Blue Burrito” was actually blue. I told him that it wasn’t and that it didn’t even have blue cheese in it. He looked disappointed. I lined up for the cashier behind him empty-handed while I saw that he grabbed some blue cheese for himself.

It was around 11PM and I was on a bus to the airport. I was going to a trip to Japan with some classmates and sat on a window seat on the left side. I took out my “travel folder” from my backpack to check my flight information once again and found that the flight departs at 2:30. I messaged this information to my mom and she replied minutes later simply with “The buck is being seen”. I also picked out an old train ticket and disposed of it in the seat pocket in front of me.

I was watching a Twitch stream as the sun rose. I was extremely exhausted and fell asleep right at my desk. My dad knocked on the door and I could fuzzily hear him panicking in the background after he opened the door. “What happened?” he asked. He kept called my name while I passed out.

I was sitting inside of a bar on the second floor overlooking a street. I was waiting for someone while listening to the music that was playing. It was daytime and the interior was mostly black.

It was the night of December 25th and I was lying down in the yard. I complained about how time was passing too quickly and that in a mere 5 days it would be the new year.

I was about to walk out of the front door but I had the feeling that I was forgetting something. I told my parents that I needed something from a box. “What do you need?” they asked. I said that I didn’t know because I only remembered the things around the item instead of what I was actually looking for. “It’s in the same box as the toothbrushes” I finally said. As far as we knew however, there were no boxes with toothbrushes in them. Walking to the kitchen sink, I realized that we stopped because the tube of toothpaste was empty. I picked it up and told my mom there wasn’t any toothpaste left. But then I found out I was holding a new tube. “When did you replace this?” I asked.

To get back home, our family had to climb a waterfall as well as a perpendicular cliff using only the roots and branches of the trees. “The faster you climb, the easier it is” they said. When I finally got to the top, I was allowed to create my own certificate for climbing the wall using a stamp with blue ink.