Today was a day
full of surprises and very fast-paced.
In the morning
Eduardo, Judit and Yüksel had a date with Yüksel, Ismet, to see issues
regarding the printing and distribution of the book of the Message in Turkish
When they come
back they continue in the kitchen and Aylin, who also works in Yüksel’s office,
comes and together they speak about the issues of printing and distribution in
various cities and how many bookstores are in each city. Yüksel giving numbers
and other data. Everything very animated and many details were being cleared
up. Later on Mustafa comes, another friend of Yüksel and we don’t know very
well what to do with him because he only speaks Turkish and Yüksel had left to
fix some things. So we decide to give him a book and he starts correcting the
edition, because that’s his job, and he graciously accepts and starts working.
After a while
he has to go but he takes the book with him to finish editing it and that
Thursday Eduardo will review all the corrections with him.
It snowed all
day and we were thinking that not many friends would come to the friendship dinner
prepared by Judit and Nicki. But surprise! Bülent calls and says he wants to
come for chai and chats. So at around 18:30 he arrives with 3 new friends whom
we didn’t know yet Ekran, Mesut, Ösgür And Olçaytug who we already knew and is
at home here.
Warm welcomes
and they sit in the living room (salita) and we give each of them a book so
that they can see it (Eduardo printed more books in the afternoon in a
photocopying place) and they happily start reading while we talk. We have chai
and happily Mesut spoke enough German and English so he could be an interpreter
for everyone. Yüksel also had come back so we were 10 persons. Different
conversations take place, in the living room and the kitchen, everything very
lively. In the meantime, Judit and Nicki are preparing a tasty Hungarian meal
and we invited everyone to stay for dinner which they accepted good-humouredly.
Before eating we did a Service with some preliminary explanations for the new
people to minimally understand how the ceremony works. It was an out of
ordinary strong and intense. The ceremony was guided by Yuksel and Bulent (who
stood up). At the end, after the asking the atmosphere was charged by energy
and high joy, everyone looked at each with a light in their eyes standing up,
until spontaneously the hugs begin, these too very intense with the
transmission of the best in everyone. A party.
In this moment
of high joy we quickly arranged the tables and chairs for dinner and everyone
wants to help with something. Plates, cutlery and so on, the energy ran. And Aylin
arrives from her work and includes herself quickly in the atmosphere. So we ate
together 13 people and the conversations continued. After dinner, of course,
chai, at the table and chatting. Mesut calls a dear friend of his who lives
close by and he also comes. When we found out that all of them were alevi and
coming from different cities in eastern Turkey. Very soft persons and in a good
mood.
There were many
dishes to was and the boys went to the kitchen by themselves and did so,
everything fluid. At 23:15 Bülent, Olçaytug, Ekran, Ösgür and Aylin leave after
intense hugs (hugs are always intense here) and we stay in the kitchen chatting
with Mesut and Ali a while longer. In the meantime Yüksel prepares Kurdish
coffee. As a result of the conversation, Ali wants to come to the meeting
tomorrow together with Mesut. They left
together with Yüksel around 23:45.
Everything was
very rich and meaningful, as if something accompanies us all the time and
illuminates these spaces.
Tomorrow at
13:30 we are going to Bülent and Olçaytug’s concert and we will meet them at
12:30 to go to the Ardiç café to go to the place. Tomorrow afternoon will be
the meeting and we will see how many people will come. Mehtap wants to come
with a friend and with Ali, Olçayfug, and the 2 young people yesterday. There
could be 5 new persons at the weekly meeting. We continue letting us be
inspired and guided by That which accompanies us.
You can capture some of the atmosphere in the pictures.
Un fuerte abrazo para todos,
Eduardo, Judit, Nicki y Peter
