Deserted campus

To get a bit of exercise and stretch my legs, I walked up to the third floor of our office building earlier this afternoon. There I paused at the open lobby overlooking central campus. The only people I see are an occasional student walking by with an umbrella over his/her head (there was a slight drizzle) or biking through campus, and a boy in rags--probably from the slum areas outside campus--trying to repair the broken chain of his bicycle in the shelter of the bus stop in front of our building. At the same time, I rued the fact that I didn't have my camera with me to capture how peaceful the campus looked without crowds of students milling around and cars filling the parking lots.