I had been assigned to read some sections of a Chinese magazine for class. Someone next to me asked “Isn’t that not allowed?” To which I was very confused as I did not know what she was referring to. She later clarified that the magazine was banned in some areas due to the racist undertones of its articles.

We were sitting in a restaurant and someone put up a 20 question quiz. It asked on a range of topics from asking how certain biblical figures died to locating specific countries in Africa. Later a video of lava solidifying after rolling through snow was displayed on screen. In the video were children screaming in surprise while the audience was cheering and clapping at the phenomena.

I was walking up the stairs with someone and we were talking about a conversational Chinese class that my brother was taking. It had a focus on various terms for different animals. The walls were white and the stairway narrow. Each floor opened up into a room with a large window. The light seemed to suggest it was approaching noon.

We were making a worksheet for children. For one part we had to translate poems about “yew gew frogs”. On the part right after, we had to write a scenario containing “I am Henry”.

I was late for dinner and nothing was being served in the cafeteria. I kept passing by someone but was unable to talk to them. The cup of coffee in my hand would never fill up. I figured that this was why I didn’t do things until I was sure about how it worked.

My brother had just finished playing a game and suggested that since I was here, we could play some Path of Exile. I hadn’t touched the game in a while and neither had he; I told him that we “didn’t have to”, and we left it at that. I sat down on the carpeted ground against the bed and next to the desktop tower. I was facing the wall but I could hear that there were quite a few other people in the room talking very loudly. I asked the person in front of me if they wanted to talk somewhere else to which they agreed and we walked out. There were now four of us walking out of the front door.

It was 3 AM and I was heading to bed. The sun had already risen and light came in through the window like it was noon.

I was watching a someone streaming on Twitch. Someone asked her if she planned to stream any other games besides Heroes of the Storm. I was about to leave when there was a “water tremor” which was supposedly some kind of earthquake and everything in the camera started shaking. This was happening somewhere in the middle of England and water was now rushing into the hallways.

I was with three of my friends from childhood and we were trying to find the right bus to ride. After getting onto the first bus, I set my backpack down at the last row. We had a feeling that it was the wrong bus so we got off and entered a second bus. While standing in the middle of the aisle, we started moving and saw that the one we were looking for was yet another bus that was about to drive off. We quickly got off but I remembered that my bag was still on the first bus so I detached from the group to fetch my belongings. By the time I had gotten my bag and gotten off the first bus, the others had already long gone and I lost my sense of direction as they all departed from a roundabout.

I was on the bus and I overheard some people talking about how students weren’t enthusiastic enough about college and how it was a shame that they weren’t taking full advantage of the extracurricular activities that were around.