We have arrived the hotel and meet the German crew which we will work together, after 29 hours train, 5 hours bus and 2 hours mini bus journey from Istanbul to Agri. Reiner is the head of the carpenter’s team, who will make the ship. Sergej is his partner. One of them is interested on kung fu and the other one is interested on wing tzun and this is the first thing that we know about them. Jens has an interesting journey also, she has been travel to India from Germany by bicycle. We all come together and chat about many things, after that we met with Timo and Dagmar.

The day after that, all work has started at 7:00 a.m in the morning and countinued until 6:00 p.m. We are working for 10 hours to make the structure of the ship. The ship has 10 m – 4 m measures. This ship which we are planning to put 2500 metres of the moutain, has designed to be symbol for us to show the climate change reality and also to be a guide for climbers who will explore the Ararat in te future. The process of the building the ship, which begins at half hour away from Iran border line Dogubeyazit, is includes the work of trying to find the right timber, the correct communication between the German crew and the local public, solving the problems about the area, finding the right people to be work in the transportation of the timbers right up to the mountain, explaining the project to the local people and also the building the ship itself! We have bigger problem about the communication we do not have internet connection the the area and the phones are only working in the certain places of the place.

Our plan is to make the building’s one part at the land and taking up the rest pieces and ourselves up to the mountain and continue the work there. Horses for the transportation seems ready. We are trying to find 40 horses from the area until Sunday. Our documentary team has arrived to Dogubeyazit to witness all these works. They started the shooting yesterday. Another team is working on the base camp which we will build on the mountain. We are 8 people who coordinates the whole work in here. This work is so hard but also very exciting. It feels so great to our souls to get up early in the morning to send our regard to the great Mount Ararat by building his ship as a group of mortals. Every evening we drink our teas and got in beds in peace.

I started the day by trying to understand a land lord from Agri and having a phone call with a member of parliment form Agri. Oguzhan has gone to Igdir to check out our timbers and he is still there. German crew is working on the building. Our coordinator Gerwald is trying to solve how to load the horses for transportation. Day is still goes on and I will keep writing to you. This is it fir the day!