working in the fields is new to the students. it is entirely different from classroom studies. with great curiosity① and excitement, we students of senior two began our learning-from-peasants activities in jianxing village, jiang wan township, not far from shanghai.
to our disappointment, the first day's work was not to till② the land; rather we were asked to pull up weeds③ in the fields. weeding seems to be as easy
