Check out my photograph, Erqi, in GUD Issue 6.

After a long day of administering oral English finals, I started on my evening run a little later than usual (I usually jog around sunset so that I can benefit from descending temperatures without being too worried about stepping on the frog chorus beside the lake or tripping on the stone steps.  As I rounded the far end of the lake, however, the wind kicked in and kicked up even more dust than usual. Lightning flashed in the distance as I rushed back to my apartment with my T-shirt pulled over my mouth, nose, and (occasionally) eyes to avoid the harsh grains.

Meanwhile, students came down from the hill behind the lake– mostly young couples trying to escape campus regulations on PDA.  (For those of you who didn’t go to summer camp, that’s public displays of affection.)  A few minutes after I made it up to my room (and after I’d managed to rinse most of the grit out of my eyes) a loud rain tamed the dust, while thunder rolled overhead.

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