So I go on spring break and what happens? I dream about school. It started with me in the city, in a new apartment with new roomates. We had tried to scrape the paint from my ceiling, since it was this hideous tangerine color and wound up scraping too far, so far that wires from the attick spilled down from the hole and into my room. We were very distraught over this, so we went to the bar for a drink. I guess we were out late, because the next morning I slept in. I was supposed to wake up and go to this tutoring campout, with all the fiction tutors and their tutees. Janine and Viki and Darwyn came to my apartment to wake me up. I followed them to the blue line in my pajamas. At the campsite, there were kiddie carnival games set up. Like where you have to toss coins into cups and bottles and if you get one in, you win a prize. My mom was there. She was young and blonde and pretty. She handed out prizes for the games. I couldn't get any coins in, at first since I was tossing them underhand. Once I tossed them overhand, I got one in and won a giant stuffed ladybug that squeeked when I hugged it. Soon, Darwyn and another guy stood in front of the crowd wearing caveman outfits. The rest of us gathered under fluffy, white blankets and listened to them speak. Only we didn't call them blankets. We called them things like, "Angel dust" and "Catastrophe". I was cuddled beneath "Catastrophe" with Janine and her tuttee and some really skinny dude. Darwyn began to call out names. He said mine, so I wrapped myself in "Angel Dust" and followed him and the others who were called, up the hill, on a red dirt trail, through a cluster of young, pine trees. On the wall (Wall? I thought we were outside!) there was a poster with some kids carrying US flags. The caption to it read, "Children Marched in the Flag Day Parade and Nobody Noticed."
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