come home safe

Leo is in Lebanon. He's been there all summer. But now with all this fighting, it's getting a little scary. I guess his family tried to get to Syria but all the roads and airports are bombed out. He said that he heard it could be months before people will be able to get out. But today I read on CBC.ca that Canada is sending in ships to get Canadians that are stranded there. But there are people who have no way of getting to the ships or don't know where they're going to be docked. It seems that the Canadian government isn't so organized trying to get everything together. People can't get ahold of the Canadian Embassy in Lebanon and if they do get through, no one has a clue what's going on. That's terrifying. They need to get their shit together. 7 Canadians have been killed. I know that's nothing compared to the hundreds of other people and the probably thousands that are still going to die, but it's really scary when you're from somewhere like Canada where bombings aren't so common. And where did this fighting come from anyway? It seemed like things were kind of ok and then all of the suddedn, there are all these attacks. Leo said that he can see the smoke and the explosions and hear the guns from where he is, but his area hasn't been bombed yet. How scary is that? To be so close? I can't even imagine. I'm so thankful that I live in Canada. I can't even wrap my brain around what it must be like to be from somewhere like that, where the fighting never ends and tensions run so high. I would always be on edge. I would never relax or sleep. It's awful. How did I get so lucky?