Istanbul
Dear Friends,
Yesterday I slept in the morning, then I went to Eminonu for some sightseeing. So nothing interesting happend, I took some nice photos.:)
Today 8 o'clock in the morning my phone started to ring. Coming from deep sleep my first reaction was: oh god, Tomka will wake up, I have to stop it immediately. So I rejected the call immediately. My second reaction was: it must be Yuksel, he was supposed to arrive to Istanbul early in the morning. So I called back the number, it was Yuksel. He said 3 words: address ankara pamukkale. Even though I was very sleepy, I quickly figured out: he left the address in Ankara and he is waiting in Pamukkale office. And I was right :)
So I went to pick him up, we came home and he went to sleep small. I went to see Selvete from Kosovo who came to visit her relatives in Istanbul. She came with her cousine, we had a coffe then we came home to meet Yuksel. I was really happy to see Selvete.
We had a nice chat with Yuksel, Selvete and Selvete's cousine. We talked about the book launch tour, Selvete's cousine took a book, she will see if she can help anyhow with the tour.
In the afternoon we went to Taksim to find Medya book store. They were supposed to sell our book. As later Yuskel explained me, the owner of the book store became sick, he wants to retreat so they cannot sell our book. We took the pack of book with us. Then we went to Imge bookstore here in Kadikoy the same company than the one selling the book in Ankara. We left the pack of book with them, they will start to sell it!
After we came home we put the bookstores addresses to the website (silonunmesaji.org) with photos.
In the evening Armagan, Eylem and her friend Öczan came to the ceremony. Unfortunately Eylem and Oczan suddenly had to leave, they couldn't participate in the ceremony. We had a nice chat, at the beginning about the difficulties of translations :), later about our experiences with Silo's Message. After Eylem left, Yuksel, Armagan and me made a ceremony. Armagan read it in turkish. Then I read again in english, so Armagan could participate. After the ceremony we countinued exchange about our experiences, thanks to Armagan who translated we could have a good level of conversation.
Then we accompanied Armagan to the bus stop, finally with Yuksel we went to eat.
All in all it was a very nice day with a lot of joy, with a lot of warmth, cosiness in the relations among us.
Big hugs to you,
csef
Yesterday I slept in the morning, then I went to Eminonu for some sightseeing. So nothing interesting happend, I took some nice photos.:)
Today 8 o'clock in the morning my phone started to ring. Coming from deep sleep my first reaction was: oh god, Tomka will wake up, I have to stop it immediately. So I rejected the call immediately. My second reaction was: it must be Yuksel, he was supposed to arrive to Istanbul early in the morning. So I called back the number, it was Yuksel. He said 3 words: address ankara pamukkale. Even though I was very sleepy, I quickly figured out: he left the address in Ankara and he is waiting in Pamukkale office. And I was right :)
So I went to pick him up, we came home and he went to sleep small. I went to see Selvete from Kosovo who came to visit her relatives in Istanbul. She came with her cousine, we had a coffe then we came home to meet Yuksel. I was really happy to see Selvete.
We had a nice chat with Yuksel, Selvete and Selvete's cousine. We talked about the book launch tour, Selvete's cousine took a book, she will see if she can help anyhow with the tour.
In the afternoon we went to Taksim to find Medya book store. They were supposed to sell our book. As later Yuskel explained me, the owner of the book store became sick, he wants to retreat so they cannot sell our book. We took the pack of book with us. Then we went to Imge bookstore here in Kadikoy the same company than the one selling the book in Ankara. We left the pack of book with them, they will start to sell it!
After we came home we put the bookstores addresses to the website (silonunmesaji.org) with photos.
In the evening Armagan, Eylem and her friend Öczan came to the ceremony. Unfortunately Eylem and Oczan suddenly had to leave, they couldn't participate in the ceremony. We had a nice chat, at the beginning about the difficulties of translations :), later about our experiences with Silo's Message. After Eylem left, Yuksel, Armagan and me made a ceremony. Armagan read it in turkish. Then I read again in english, so Armagan could participate. After the ceremony we countinued exchange about our experiences, thanks to Armagan who translated we could have a good level of conversation.
Then we accompanied Armagan to the bus stop, finally with Yuksel we went to eat.
All in all it was a very nice day with a lot of joy, with a lot of warmth, cosiness in the relations among us.
Big hugs to you,
csef
