While the Snow is Finally Melting Away…
4th day at the camp. The building of the ship goes on at the last speed. The roof is completed, celebration done. Today the outer layer has started to be placed.
In the morning web id farewell to Kaitlin. She goes back to Istanbul to continue her world tour. She tells us about it; how one day all of a sudden she decided to leave everything behind with an irresistable instinct and hit the road to Tailand, India and now Turkey. Her best-friend buys a book called “Work Your Way Around The World” by Susan Griffith. They find out that they can travel around the world workng in organic farms. In that book they are introduced with the organisation called WWOOF-Willing Workers On Organic Farms, next thing they are in Tailand. The landlord of the farm in Tailand is gone to Bankog. So, they find an orphanage there where they work as volunteers and later on moving forward to an orphanage in India. When they arrive in Turkey, they find out that the farm here looks for long term workers. So they just start travelling. This is how I get the chance to met her. She got very excited to hear about the Ararat Project. About the project, she points out that this is the first time that she works in a project whose sole purpose is to raise awareness and get attention. She adds that she is very content to participate in the project because of its significance and purpose. She speaks about her home countary USA related to the project. She believes that her goverment should spend more money on the sustainable energy and no money on the war. She says that in the USA, only a handful of cities have effective public transportation. She thinks that the actual global warming is caused by the industry but the transprtation is also significant. Because it is something that the avarage people can change. She adds that she prefered to get to Iğdır in 43 hours by train rather than flying for 2 hours, and enjoyed it very much for she got to see a major part of Turkey in this way, encouraging people to fly as less as they can. We send off Kaitlin in the morning. After Turkey, she is heading to Greece and Italy to work in the organic farms. Bon Voyage Kaitlin!
After the breakfast, we jump in the van on the way to Korhan Plateu. This time we pass the flora and head more up the mountain. We go to take footage of the people who collecting snow from the mountain. They don’t have water supply in their villages. Thus, they collect the snow, melt it and use it. “Life is beautiful here” says Kemal, “We only don’t have water and electricity”.
One of these families is Mustafa’s family. I have a conversation with him about the climate change. He says that this year the winter has been rough, the snow melted away late, the grass appeared late, thus, the animals couldn’t graze well. Mustafa’s family burn dried dung to get warm in the winter.
We arrive back to the camp. We have both water, electricity and even still have some time! Maybe soon the climate will reach at a point where the snow will never melt in Mt.Ararat. Then, the winter will be even tougher for Mustafa’s family, or maybe there will not be enough snow and the locals won’t have any water.
As we still have some time left to save the planet, I leave you alone with Rainer’s poem of yesterday’s richtfest:
Richtspruch
Hey Noah we are here!
These phrases are dedicated to you.
Merhaba, dear friends, dear guests
Who came for the “Richtfeste”
The roof is finished, the picture is clear:
We build an arc again, for a flood to come
Oh Noah, she does not swim as it stands here
And she is also much smaller
No matter how you turn her around
But already now with her massage she goes to each part
Of the world day by day
To stop the climate change
“Act Now!” is the message
For the sake of the plant, the animal and the mankind all around
We’ll keep on building untill the last plank is attached
Always trusting our common strength
Hey Noah! Through you, we see a sign for peace now
Yet, this ship shall be blessed
Even if it is just on the rocks
Cheers!
Reiner Brumshagen
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