Ibrahim Dik, drove 60 miles from his hometown Roum to a brother's house in Beirut, after receiving a phone call from the U.S. Embassy saying that he should make his way to Beirut.

"Now I'm waiting for the Embassy to call me," Dik said.

It took Dik approximately three hours to get from Roum to Aouker, a town he is staying in Beirut, several miles from the Embassy. He used a map and stopped at a few places to ask for directions.

"It was a very scenic road," Dik said. "...winding up the mountains."

According to Dik, it was a bomb-free, three-hour trip.

He said all he kept thinking was, "I hope (Israel) sticks to their word and doesn't bomb."

The 62-year-old arrived in Lebanon on May 26 with his wife Susan, also a KCC professor, to spend the summer. For the past 10 years, the couple from St. Louis Heights have spent their summers in Lebanon visiting Dik's family in the town where he grew up. Susan Dik flew to Malaysia to finish out a fellowship just a week-and-a-half before the bombing started. She has been in touch with her husband everyday and she is returning to O'ahu tomorrow.

Dik was scheduled to return to Hawai'i on Aug. 11, in time to report to KCC for the new school year on Aug. 15.