The Ararat Mountain

By Lasse Munthe Jensen
Thursday the 29 october
Early morning we set sail for the Ararat mountain, just like some guy called Noah did many years before us.
Ironically it has been raining for some days now, is history repeating itself and is our bus going to be the next ark?
Well the rain stopped during the day, so much for my prophetic sense.
On the ay to the mountain, we stopped at a hangbridge over a river, and most of us enjoyed jumping on it so ıt went from side to side and up and down(for the horror of others).
After driving for what felt like an eternity, we could finally see Ararat in the horizon, the top was hidden by clouds, but the part we could see was really huge. The mountain itself should be around 5100 meter above the ocean, so quite an impressive rock.
The mountain reminded me abit of an ostrich, hidding it´s head so it thinks no one can see it. Although thats only something they do in the cartoons, ıf they would have done so in the real world, that specie would have been extingueshed long ago. Typical us humans to dumbify things so we can laugh at it and feel smarter.
Though I´ll admit Noah didn´t seem lıke the brightest guy either, or else he as damn drunk. I mean, imagine the entire world ıs flooded, Noah sailing around in his ark, and then BUMP! He manages to crash into the ONLY thing that is above the ocean for miles.... Make my day, he invented the drunken sailor! :)
And further more, quite impressive that he went around the world and collected every animal, not bad eh? Well surely he must have forgotten some? Where is the unicorn? the dragon? and the mermaids? (rawr gief hot ladies that swim around). And instead he took with him the mosquitos that has overstung my body many nights... Good job man, really!
Anyway, back to the real story, so we where going to Ararat, or well we got to like 5km from the mountain as the closest we got to it, so no real mountain climbing for me nor any of the other hopeful mountaneers. At least we got a very good view of he awesome turkish military might, since it was their national day and they were parading in the streets with their tanks, a shame they had no artillery or rockets, though it´s a perfect example of how to rule a nation with military pride!
Atatürk! Atatürk! Atatürk!