At Hariri's final resting place

At Hariri's final resting place
Originally uploaded by Jane Rubio.

This is where you go downtown to pay homage to Rafik Al-Hariri. In this picture, it actually looks cleaned up. Before, there were tons of candles--Christian and Muslim. Outside the tent, it says the number of days it's been since the assassination. About 400-something.

We didn't have school February 14, the one year anniversary of his death. And I didn't go down to Beirut. I figured I had too much to do and it would take all day coming back up the mountain. (Like it did when I went down last March 14). But actually, the people went down and came back in about 3 hours-- and Walid Beik gave a riveting speech, which I only saw on television.