Hello friends,
on June 16th we travelled from Antalya to Ankara where we arrived at
17h. Yüksel was waiting for us when we arrived at home and together we
fixed some things, for example, buying a double bed so that our 8
friends could all sleep in the house. Yüksel helped us to find something
good and cheap and that was settled. Yüksel started to prepare one of
his tasty foods, at 21h, Mehtap also arrived and stayed to eat with us.
We showed her the video of the tour and she was very impressed and
happy.
Thanks
to Mehtap's help translating into English, Yüksel explained that Sunday
there was nobody at the IMGE bookstore and that we would meet Monday at
the bookstore to agree on some sort of presentation. So we had Sunday
free and some friends took the opportunity to go to the Archaelogical
museum in the morning. In the meantime Nacho prepared some good food and
afterwards we all went to Kizilay, in the center of Ankara which is
close to home to have something to drink in a terrace of a café. From
there we called Zehra who came right away and she called Bülent and
Olcay to invite them. Bülent invited us to a cultural center close by
and we all went. There was a kind of memorial for a musician who had
day. The place was nice and we asked Bülent if it was possible to do a
book presentation there. He went to talk to the owner and they agreed
that he will first read the book and then decide if he is interested.
Zehra told us that her husband is trying to organize a presentation in
the Alevi center but it seems that there are few people going there
because in the summer most people leave the city. We'll see what
happens.
Going back home we did ceremonies and asked for the well being of various friends.
Today,
Monday, Yüksel and Aylin arrived in the morning and we proposed them to
do a book presentation in the salita this wednesday and if they could
invite all their friends and family, as many as they could. And they
started calling everyone.
After
we went to a bookstore and thanks to Yüksel and Aylin who talked to the
owners, it was clear that we could not do action like in Izmir and
Antalya. Ankara is more difficult and has more rules. But we will have a
table tomorrow at the bookstore's café from 17h until 21h. Tomorrow
we'll see what happens. Zehra, Mehtap, Aylin, Yüksel, Bülent and Olçay
will be with us. We also need to have the flyers stamped or we can have
problems.
We
went back home where Nacho was preparing some good food. After Carmen
gave us a dance in the kitchen, dancing to the song Alvaro sang to us
while he was washing the dishes.
We
ended the day with ceremonias and a special asking for Yüksel and his
mother (who has problems with her knees) to send them lots of force and
peace, we put the stamps Yüksel gave us on the flyers for tomorrow.
Even though there are many hitches and we have to adapt things, are group spirit is high and we are having lots of fun.
a big hug,
Carmen, Salva, Nacho, Judit, Eduardo, Ismael, Alvaro, Yüksel, Mehtap, Aylin, Zehra, Bülent, Olçay and Peter
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