Hello
friends,
Today, June
14th was a day of good surprises.
Yüksel
had a date with Tufan in the morning at the Alevi Center, but we couldn’t
understand why. Anyhow they are becoming friends. We knew that a package with
25 books had arrived at the Alevi center and we thought that Yüksel had agreed
with Tufan that the books could be sent directly to the center’s address.
Later in the morning, Yüksel came back to the
hotel with part of the books and told Eduardo that we had a bookstore in the
center of the city that wants to put the books in their bookstore and the two
of them went there to meet the owner, called Murat who is Kurdish. After having
put 15 books in the bookstore they went back to the Alevi center to pick up the
10 remaining books and brought them back to the hotel. In the meantime, we had
agreed to meet in the bookstore 17h to start actions inviting people to come
see the book and talk to us.
In the same period, Peter called Mehtap to ask
her to reserve a double room in a hotel in Ankara close to the house/salita. After
having fixed that, Peter, Carmen and Salva went to the bus terminal to buy 8
tickets to Antalya-Ankara for Saturday morning and Ariane called Sultan, the
German-speaking Alevi woman, to stay with her in the afternoon to get to know
each other and talk about the meeting of women where Ariane will make a book
presentation and ceremonies with the women of the Alevi Center.
Carmen, Peter and Salva arrived at 17h in the
bookstore and soon after also Eduardo and Yüksel and we started preparing a
table with chairs, displaying the books that were already in the bookstore.
Murat is a very amiable person and had no problem that we set up a table with
chairs in front of his bookstore, which he gave us himself. We could also put a
big poster in the window. Later he organized two benches for us and a table
inside the bookstore close to the entrance so that we could rest if we wanted
to. A while later the other friends arrived with the rest of the materials, to
proof of the new pamphlet with the address of the bookstore, Judit and Alvaro
went to look for a photocopier to make 400 copies.
We must say that in the morning we didn’t know
if the bookstore would welcome us or not. So everyone was very happy and
thankful to Yüksel to fixing right away this pending issue.
Soon we started talking to the first
passers-by, but we didn’t have a lot of time to make invitations with the
pamphlet, since the bookstore closed at 20h. But tomorrow we will have all day
since we will start at 11h.
At 19:30,
Ariane arrived in the bookstore from her meeting with Sultan and told us
everything that had happened in the meeting. It seems that Sultan was very
touched by the book and by the ceremony of Well Being that Ariane read with
her, proposing to do it during the meeting with women. They became friends and
Saturday Sultan will go to the hotel to pick up Ariane so that they can go
together to the Alevi Center. She also have the name of another bookstore in
the center, ABC, saying that she is sure it will be interested in the book.
Tomorrow Yüksel will check.
After the
bookstore close we went for a walk in the center of Antalya, ending in the old
part of the port. After a small and pleasant walk we went to a very nice
restaurant to eat together in good company. We decided to walk back to the
hotel and it was also a good moment and everyone was happy.
At the
hotel we did our daily ceremonies to ask that the Message also advance in
Antalya and that tomorrow give us new and good surprises. And of course we asked
again for some friends and for their health and mental well being.
It is very
hot and humid but our spirit is high and full of good humor and happiness. We
are doing really well!!!
A strong
and joyous hugs from Antalya,
Isabel,
Ariane, Zoë, Alvaro, Nacho, Yüksel, Eduardo, Judit, Carmen, Salva, Ismael,
Aurora and Peter
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