I arrived last week at the Camp and at this moment I already left eight days, full of work and new experiences behind me with the main activity of building a dam into one of the canals (you can read all about our climate dam in Petterr's updates).

I have to say that the first time in a new culture have been a little strange for me, but it hasn't taken a long time till I got into the daily process and specialy the people made it very easy for me to feel already a little like home and not that lost, how I felt as I landed in Jakarta.

The canal is just half an hour by boat from the camp and depending on the number of people we are going with one up to three wooden motor-boats, which are making a lot of noise. Usually we are leaving the camp at 7am after breakfast and we come back at at about 6 in the evening.

On the way to the canal we were driving on a river which is leading us from the camp up to a beach along the border of the forest. It's always the same way, but from day to day you see it with different eyes and different feelings.

It's really scary to see the dead forest. Big trees which are laying on the ground with their gray branches lifting up high. Or the sudden smell of fire in the air alongside trees which are still alive. Amazing trees, so big and colourful. And from time to time you see groups of monkeys which are jumping around. And it's seeing these things that is motivating me to go every day to the dam again to stop the destruction of the carbon-rich peatlands - and send a signal to wake up world leaders.

Building the dam was pretty hard and at times it felt kind of tedious - all these heavy logs and sand bags! But with the Greenpeace team and locals the work brought a lot of fun and even though each day was a similar kind of work - it never got boring and it's inspiring to work with all these different people - together.

Monday was quite a long day, because we had to wake up at 5pm and we left the camp at 6pm. The reason for the early start was our goal to finish the first dam, which was not possible, because Bono came again. By the way I have to explain, that Bono is not the singer of U2 here - but a big wave which comes each month around the full moon. It's really amazing and the people here are talking a lot about Bono and they are nearly going crazy if they see the wave coming! Bono came around 2 o'clock and from this time we had to stop for a long while, because the water even reached even our little house near the dam, where we often sit to get out of the sun.

While we stopped another team went along the river to bring more sandsacks, which we built up next to the dam.

Finally - it was done! And then I helped to up two new masts, higher than the older ones, to hang a new banner behind the dam. And so we switched the old banner "Climate Change Starts Here" into "Climate Change Stops Here". But with Bono one of the masts started moving, because the ground became very muddy and so we took the banner down until the water went away again. I think it was around about 4pm as we went away with the boats and I have to say that I was already sleeping as I put my first foot into the boat.

By now I am sitting on a bench in the camp and I would really like to tell you more about the way our camp is working and how it looks, but this I will keep for the next time, before I fall asleep again.

Good Night - Selamat Malam

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