My Dream in California I have been living in Mountain View, CA for 10 years. I like the mild weather, blue sky and nice beach in California. I have seen various interesting things here. One of them, which made me very curious 10 years ago, was a picture of an upside down room. Now, it isn’t strange at all. There even appeared an exhibition of upside down houses in Los Angeles. Last night, after playing badminton I felt very tired. So, I went to sleep earlier than usual. When I woke up I found I was on the ceiling of an upside down room! Who put me here? That was a trick to play on me! I know it is only an upside down decorated room! What I should do right now is to get out and go to my ESL class at 9 am. I looked around: there wasn’t any window. Fortunately, I found a small door. I opened the door and when I was just stepping out of the door, I was so surprised: I saw the sky is deep under my feet, while all plants, grass, trees…and the earth is up over my head! I suddenly realized that I’m not in an upside down decorated room, I am on the ceiling of a true room. The whole world has become upside down for me! What should I do? Is it the time for me to leave this world? I looked at the sky under my feet again. Should I step out and fall down deep towards the far away sky so that I could get into heaven? Let me think it over as a real scientist! I feel the world upside down. It means gravity doesn’t work for me and there is another attractive force working on me. It’s most likely the sun as we are living in the Solar system. So, if I stepped out and fell down deeply, I would go towards the sun! I would burn up! “No! I won’t go! No! No! No!” I shouted loudly. “What’s the matter?” I heard my husband ask. I’ve woken up from my mysterious dream. Now, I feel so nice lying on my own bed. I can see through the window blue sky, white clouds and green trees. I feel so wonderful living on the earth. I love it. I would neither go to the sun nor heaven. Guanglin K. is a student in the Advanced ESL morning class
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