Dream Journal Ultimate
Date: 5/1/2019
By Aler
We were spread all around the harbor. The teacher was Harry Kim, and he didn’t use a microphone, so it was very difficult to hear. We decided to get together in the woods to continue the class in closer quarters. We travelled through the woods to an abandoned camp. It was in Indonesia. By this time, our population was at n the hundreds. The camp in the forest was no good, with broken washrooms and no housing. Homosexuality was outlawed, and military police surrounded the camp. Our teacher (now James Franco) did his best to keep teaching and keep up spirits. At this point, the story switches from first person to someone narrating what happened. There were only a couple dozen students left. They had a device that provided a constant dose of pain killer while they bit down on it, so they learned to do their own self-dental surgery. This was told matter-of-factly. I asked why he stayed, and he said it was sunken cost. They had spent so much time that it felt like a waste to leave now. I assumed that there was a real sense of camaraderie at the end, but was told this wasn’t true. My narrator would overhear fellow students making homophobic or transphobic comments, but then speaking of equality in public settings. Because of the close proximity they didn’t want to point this out, but it was very frustrating. I don’t know how the class finally ended.