Answer:
On the first day of school, Victor stood in line half an hour before he came to a
wobbly card table. He was handed a packet of papers and a computer card on which he listed his
one elective1
, French. He already spoke Spanish and English, but he thought some day he might
travel to France, where it was cool; not like Fresno, where summer days reached 110 degrees in
the shade. There were rivers in France, and huge churches, and fair-skinned people everywhere,
the way there were brown people all around Victor
