I'm at the northern edge of the basketball court at the primary school I teach it. I'm with R - a fellow teacher, who I do alot of my planning with.

At the other end of the court, I can see a friend of mine 'B'. There's a big board up. He's working on an equation that looks a little like this:

= (F + y) (x + Z)
  -----------------
         A + b

It seems kinda cool to see him there. I figure this complicated problem must have something to do with his profession (he's an industrial chemist, no less). Then (in a manner reminescent of my days studying maths at University) I see him taking out common factors, changing the order of the brackets - in short, simplifying the equation.

And all of a sudden it's solved. My friend R gives me a friendly nudge, and moves her eyes in the direction of the board.

It now reads "2025" in much larger writing.

"So what are you going be?" she asks, grinning:

I stop for a moment..

"I'm going to be a writer"

She nods, as though out of respect for the many wanna-be writers..

"No", I say, "I'm going to write about dreams", divulging that this is actually one of my personal passions.

"Wow. You should do that...

I wanna learn how to dream!"