8D Ooh yeah, another AGC dream! The five of us were driving in the van together (to Sequoia? Yosemite?), when I discovered another mini in the back of AGC: Josefina #5 (oh yeah, did I mention Tía Dolores, Josefina’s aunt went with us?).
Ahem, the mini. Picking up from previous books, Josefina had just witnessed a crime (something involving a youma/scorceress where the world of Sailormoon or CLAMP sorta comes in), and so her dad decided to hide her at a nearby town about a couple miles from the rancho.
This town, it was a very fairly small town. It harbored mainly Russian and Swedish immigrants who didn’t have the money to go anywhere else. I noticed the art was different. It didn’t look like Jean-Paul Tibbles’ art at all. I was a little disappointed, but I figured it was okay. I mean, manga artists have different styles and interpretations of the characters in Ring (the characters in MEIMU’s manga look really different from the style of Misao Inagaki–dreams do teach you something :P).
During the middle of the book, Josefina kinda wanders around the town, and helps out at a soup kitchen. A group of kids, who looked a little like the Larson kids (from Kirsten’s books) crowded around her (but it wasn’t them, since none of them looked familiar and they weren’t even born in Josefina’s time). One of them asks her why she’s helping them. Josefina said she felt the need to help them ever since she went to St. Petersburg. The kids were probably thinking, ‘You went to St. Petersburg? (And I was thinking, ‘You went to St. Petersburg?’)
A little after that, she’s walking around the town at night, when she hears people arguing nearby–in English. She moves closer and 8D;; one of them is Patrick. Apparently, the other guys were accusing him of stealing these coins/a map (can’t remember which). Josefina was shocked, and believed that he didn’t steal it. So she spends the climax trying to prove his innocence (which she does eventually, and wow, this would make a great plot for her mystery ^^;).
At the end of the book, her dad comes back for her (apparently, the youma/scorceress mentioned at the beginning passed by their house). The book ends with her and her dad at Santiago and Angelito’s camp at night. There’s a violin playing in the background (Papá?), and Santiago singing a song. Then he ends it by thanking the Lord for bringing Josefina back safe. The end.
One thing I remembered is that the end of one chapter was on the left page somewhere in the book. And the beginning of the next chapter was on the right side. There was a map of North America spanning from the left page to the right page. It looked so cool, like a manga. 
Anyway, this entire dream reminds me of one of the Pokemon OAVs shown before the actual Pokemon movies. Both this dream and said OAV are like side stories. In both, the main character(s) go off in this unfamiliar area, and have a little adventure with them doing random things and interacting with people they don’t know. The climax involves them in a moralistic, character-building task. And at the end of the day (and OAV/dream), the people who dropped them off at the unfamiliar place comes back for them.
When I told my mom that I had a dream about American Girls, she said, “Oh, another episode of American Girls.” That cracked me up, since it sounded as though she could’ve said “Oh, another episode of Sailormoon.” 
I was disappointed when I sloooooowly woke up and slooooowly found out it was just a dream, and there was no book involving Josefina going around a Russian/Swedish immigrant town. 
Modified: January 02nd, 2008
