Hello
friends,
The first part of today, June 5th in
Istanbul was dedicated to making arrangements for plane and bus tickets. We
bought Istanbul-Antep tickets for Eduardo, Isabel Torres, Maribel, Peter and
Lory for July 5th and we reserved 9 bus tickets for our trip to
Izmir this Friday. We also arranged for other flights to be free from these
issues.
Yüksel went to Izmit to organize everything in
the bookstore for days 6 and 7.
Some friends went to visit Topkapi and we met
again in front of the bookstore at 17:30 at the café. We fixed our small table
and poster and this time we also put a poster on the window overlooking the
street. It was very hot and we felt it very much in our bodies, but we started
giving out flyers and inviting people to our table. It wasn’t a very busy day
but some people came in to talk and to look at the book. We met again a lady
who bought the book yesterday and it appears she is a publisher as well. We
invited her to have tea and to come talk at our home/salita later on but she
said she had to work until late. She invited us to go to her office and have
chai and chat tomorrow. Her office is on the same street as the bookstore.
We didn’t sell any books and finished at 17:45,
having something to drink and a snack in the café in front. We agreed to go to
the salita/house to do ceremonies. Meanwhile a young friend of Jöntürk, Ömer, had
called Eduardo to find out where we were. He went home with us and stayed. It
was his first experience with the ceremonies. Nothing much happened to him
during the service, guided by Aurora (Spanish) and Huseyin (Turkish) and during
the pause for tea we talked to him about our experiences with the ceremonies to
answer his questions. During the Well Being guided by Peter (Spanish) and Yüksel
(Turkish) something happened to him, because, listening to other friends
expressing their askings for loved ones, he also expressed himself. When he
left he expressed his thanks and wants to come back and bring friends who might
be interested. Good.
After the ceremonies, we decided to see
together what is the situation with the Western tour and we asked Yüksel to
tell us how things had gone in Izmit. It seems that the books were returned to
Ankara and the bookstore didn’t want them. So Izmit is cancelled. We decided to
use the following days to organize
Izmir, Antalya and Ankara better. With Husyein’s translations we managed to
understand each other well. The result of this interchange is that we will use
tomorrow to settle the issue of the hotel and the bookstore in Izmir and have
more information about Antalya. It seems that Tufan is looking for a hotel for
us there, but we will call him on the phone tomorrow to arrange this issue as
well as having an image on how the meeting with the Alevi in Antalya will be
and to do a presentation of the book with ceremonies.
As you see, not everything is going as we
expected but we’re taking this experience like a new adventure which will
certainly produce many positive surprises.
A big hug,
Eduardo, Judit, Huseyin, Yüksel, Peter, Nacho, Aurora, Ariane, Zoë, Alvaro y Isabel
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