question: I am like BA , I am watching Fannie and Freddie fall to below a $ 1 in cost . At one time , I had thought about buying stock in one of them ; glad I did n't . I get sticker shock every time I go to the grocery store .
Q: What current event am I describing ?

answer: The financial collapse

question: She was my unicorn , as Alexa would say - the perfect one you would have been happy forever with , but could never have . And when I realized that it was never going to work out like we ... I had dreamed it would , I was crushed .
Q: Why is the narrator so sullen ?

answer: They just got rejected .

question: Once or twice I even camped outside the bus to avoid the chaos inside . It was a long six weeks . Toward the end of the tour we had a break in London . Heather was on a study abroad program in Holland , so she came over for a visit .
Q: Why would Heather visit the travelers ?

answer:
She was close by .