Hello, Developed World,

Yes, I am back from Costa Rica. I will be posting some of my more artsy pics up here soon of the shnifty things I saw while I was there. It was really fun, but I'm really glad to be home. It's Christmas! I'm really happy we got snow 2 days ago, but we need a dumping. Just a downpour of snow so we can't go to school (wait, I don't go back to school until January 12th.) and all we can do is crawl out of our windows and build snowforts all day. I also need some friends to do this with; everyone is either still away at college or freaking out about exams coming up soon.

In other news, I got an idea for a story from a dream I had last night.

I was going on a study abroad program to England for a semester. I either had some secret or knew where some really important object was or something, but I was involved in some sort of espionage (oooh, good word. Go English major.) and I held really important information. I don't know why I was going to England for a semester if this was the case, but I was. I also knew that on my study abroad program was an enemy agent that had been sent to kill me. However, this agent only knew that the target was female and in this study abroad program; he didn't know it was me specifically.
So I arrived at the Heathrow airport and got on the tram to take me to the bag claim with my friend ______, who I had met on the flight over (can't remember her name). We sat down in some seats on the tram, and then I realized that the boy sitting 2 seats away from me was the enemy agent! dun dun DUN!!! But in order to not seem suspicious, I started talking to him. He was my age, and going on the same study abroad program. So we kept talking, and it turned out that we hit it off really well and I started to like him. And I was like "Crap, I have a crush on my assassin," but he was just really fun to be around and seemed like a nice enough guy. Plus he didn't know I was the one he had to kill.
So we went to orientation and stuff, and it turned out that we were roommates in our dorm/hotel (co-ed rooming? Apparently in England...). No, nothing raunchy happened. But one night I did sleep in his bed. So I was having a great time, but then I realized that until he found out who his target was, innocent girls were going to die, because he had been ordered to kill if he had "reason to suspect" he had found the one. And I felt guilty about it. But I didn't want to tell him it was me, because he would kill me, and I didn't want to mess up the relationship (okay, that last part's not true. But I really liked this guy).
So then I went to swim practice at the athletic building in the dorms, and Rachel Robinson was there, and our summer swim coach was our coach there. She made me and Rachel race butterfly, but we had a buoy attached to our arms and it made it really hard to swim.

So that was my dream. I'll probably leave out the last part about swimming.

I don't know anything about Twilight, but it sounds like the main character in my story might be experiencing something similar to Bella. I hope that doesn't count as plagiarism, since it just came from my mind, and I haven't read any of the Twilight books or seen the movie. I know, some of you might say that's redonk, but I tried to read one of them at swim finals last year, and I couldn't even get through a page. The writing was HORRIBLE. It was like reading a 500-page trashy romance novel. I like the concept, but reading them would be too painful.

Well, back to Harry Potter!