teaching a fish to swim

i dreamed my lover and i were in france with a tour group. we were stying in a hotel that was sort of like a dorm, with all these people we didn't know. for some reason we had to get all our carry-on bags ready to check in, but v. was off doing something so i had to get her stuff ready as well as mine. she had all these plastic bags full of marbles and oddly shaped pieces of plastic, and i couldn't figure out how to consolidate them into suitcases.

and then we were at the beach, still in france, and the boys in the group were all wearing sweaters and jeans and it was cold out and they jumped into the water wearing all their clothes, and my friend x. was there and she had knots in her hair so i was carefully combing them out, and then i made a fish (i have no idea how). and then i went into the water in my sweater and jeans with this fish and it didn't know how to swim, and so i was trying to teach it to swim but it wouldn't breathe the water. i was surprised because the water was very comfortable and not cold at all.