To Stay or to Go?

The campus is mostly empty, since a large number of Lebanese students have left to go home. Those of us remaining are trying to decide what to do- risk a trip by road to Syria (not for me) or wait for the State Department to make plans. They may arrange for us to go to Cyprus in the next few days. I would prefer to finish the program and stay in Lebanon, but the program may be cancelled.

The most frustrating thing is not having seen my friends here, and not being able to travel around.

The wireless network in the dorms is currently down, and I am running into obstacles buying a new phone card. I don't think I'll be able to update the blog very regularly...

We are very safe here on campus, but we can hear the bombs dropping and the anti-aircraft or anti-ship (?) artillery in other areas of the city.

Update: the CAMES study program made plans for us to go to Amman, Jordan through Syria tomorrow morning. However, they cancelled them later on in the day. Going to Amman would have been better than Cyprus for me, since my ticket back to Detroit is through there. Again, the future is mysterious. Very sad that I will not be able to finish the program.

With almost everyone gone from campus, the cats and the flies are running amok...