Xu Ping swung his army green bag off his shoulder and plopped down under the shade of a tree.
It was September but the Indian summer was vicious.
The ground was baked by the sun and it took some wiggling around for Xu Ping to find a comfortable spot.
He took out his workbook from the bag.
The assignment today was a six hundred word essay.
The topic was “My cute ___” and the student could insert a person or animal in the blank, such as “brother,” “sister,” “kitten,” or “puppy.”