I'm in Sussex University in England. I'm back at my studies after the first Xmas recess, but the paper I was supposed to prepare over the holidays hasn't even been started. However I have gotten hold of a 'sample' exam. It doesn't seem so terribly hard. Something to do with chimps and singing canaries...
Same college, now it's the beginning of the sophomore year after summer break. I walk up to my dorm room. It's the one furthest to the left on a corridor. The room is long, narrow and spartan, almost like a jail cell.
Then some other student shows up, claims this room as his, indeed he's already moved all his gear in. WTF? I'm seriously put out.
I tell him: "I had this room all last year, it was supposed to stay mine!"
The squabble heats up...
Later I am sitting in a student lounge which features a large glass wall (rather like in this week's Australia dream). This time I'm watching a howling gale outside that's tossing the trees around. I mention to my colleagues, "It's weird how there was a bit of a tornado just before I left the States, and now here in England is yet another fierce wind."
A couple of times during this dream I walk into a mall-sized parking lot. The first time I walk in I find it has been cordoned off into sections. The second time, I see that the top cordons are wire, or perhaps barbed wire, but the lower two cordons are made with fur rope (?!)
A path has been created through them across the lot. Some ropes are untied or thrown over others so that a pedestrian like me can duck under them.
Finally, I am with a couple of ladies visiting a brick mansion. It looks like the Chateau des Sources, which was located at the top of the French residential lawns where I used to live (see yesterday's dream). As we approach, a section of bricks to the left, under a staircase, crumbles. The whole place seems pretty sketchy for a tourist destination!
*PHOTO is the chateau des sources.