One evening I went to Betsikas neigbooorhood, European side, to know Gihgih, who conected with us by internet. She is Filipinian, working form Monday to Saturday and only Sundays free. Same situtaion than Maryluz, Colombian, who we knew in the first days of the trip. And also like her, very interested in knowing people and having enviroments of relationship. When we was in the chat, she recoginzed the message like when she make curative massages, and before she has to place her selve in asking mode, asking for the person to treat and wishing that curation will go thorugh her hands.
Another evening I went to know Aylin, also in teh European side (Karakoy). She study in the university. In the beginig I thougth that she contact me from the texts that I posted in internet, but whe she was coming from Çanan, who talked to her about the message, and even showed to her where the Salita is. Aylin is quite interested, she was in Saja Yoga some time, she think it is not bad, but this is not what she is looking for. She wants to assit this Saturday to the ceremony in the Salita, as it is the last in our trip, despite she is some how busy just this day.
Monday evening Hussein called us and did a gathering with Nacho, Cristopheand me to make a Turkish ceremony in the Salita, becasue it was a special day in Turkey. We wrote our next year wishes on a paper. After, we placed the papers behind a rose that Hussein bougth before to keep for2 days. After we did an ask.
A different evening we was at Jonturk´s house, playing "tabula" (similar to backgamon) with Lukas (German) and his German friends who are in Turkey for some days. Lukas, 19, Jonturk´s very close friend, has conected very well with us, despite the difference between ages, and apart of attending 2 ceremonies and like them, he is spreading in his way in his enviroment. He is from a new generation of youths that I have seen before that have no shield agains spirituality, and very close to us. We all went later to Uskudar, Asiatic side, and to a sea side, where restaurants have pillows to seat, have a çay, and watch Europe.
Another day Nacho went to visit Gonça in her mother´s house. They are having swiming pool (not common here) and Nacho toke the chance for swimming and making exercises. After, typical Turkish lunch and a big chat with Gonça.
The same evening I went to Kadikoy english table, a weekly place to practic English between people, and I knew some people, but with one in special we had fast connection, he is Sirian and he is here since some years ago. He was interested in the message and we did appointment for this Saturday ceremony.
Later, in Spanish table, I meet again with 3 persons that was also last week in the same place. And it is very interesting how I felt that I know these people long since. These spanish table have something interesting, an special feeling. You can find people from different culures but in the same wave. And the people treat well each other, you can make freinds easy and interchange telephone, adress,.. There was a guy in the Spanish table that was arrived from a trip to Georgia and Iran. He was surprised becasue in Iran, in different cities, youth peple is similiar to Istanbul youths, nothing tobe with fundamentalism, they are open minded, you find restaurants, dancing places, alcohol,...
One nigth Çanan toke Nacho and me for dinner. She came with her blood brohter Hassan, who is Çagan´s father. Çagan study in Malaga, and becuase he was new in the city, I helped him to deal with some things as mobile, internet,..some months before. The dinner was in a very good restaurante, typical turkish food, and Hassan invited to us. Hassan and Çanan want to go to Malaga in summer to visit Cagan, and I ofered them accomodation, and we was talking to go to Africa (Tanger)
Another evening Nacho planned a visit to a Alevian Center, in Uskudar. In the middleof the beigborhood, close to the Alevian Center, we saw a park full of trees, birds, shadows,..and becuase someone indicated us that Alevian Center was in the other side of the park, we decide to go cross it. But it was not simply a park. Trees, birds, shadows...was there, but where you believe that grass with children playing, poeple resting,..will be, intead of it, graves. Full of graves. It was a cementery, but with the ambient of a park, with people going across from one side of the negborhood to another without anyproblem.
Once in the Alevian Center, a ceremony was just finish and it was not allow to enter. We was in the gate with no idea of what to do, and a very kind man came to talkto us, and Nacha and him was very friendly. The man works in the shop in front of the Alevian Center, it is a gravestone shop, in the back of the cementery-park. He speaks english and he allow us to enter in the Alevian Center using the back door. Not in the building, that was closed, but in the garden, a garden with trees, birds,...and graves. The Center garden is anohter cementery. Older than the one before. There it was a famous Alevian grave, from XIV century, a kind of holly man. The gave has some columns for whishes. After the ask, you have to take a stone from the ground and push it with the column. If the stone remains with the column, your whish will become true. If the stone felts down, not. The columns has many stone fixed, what is not logical as comlumns are vertical and the stones you take it from the ground.
From the begining of the trip I was thinking a way to spread a sing in Kadikoy, so peoplein similar wave can conect with us. Before the trip, the idea was to make an non-violence artist gathering in Kadikoy, or something like that, andput posters ont he street and invite people. But thisidea was based on Çanan, artist, who knows very well Kadikoy. But Çanan is very busy at this moment so this idea was not posible. Then I started to take all the posters that I use to see in the street, and to snap also some of them. After, I showed them to Jonturk asking to translate (Jonturk laugthered with this) There posters offering job, reducing weigth,..I wacth that all poster had a similar apperance. No desing, just text and one picture trying to fill of the space. I also watched where the poster use to be fixed. And also that they use to be very small , A6 sized, 4 parts of an A4. And also the way that they fix them with a two sides paper glue. I desgned a very simple poster, I remembered how Matt said that Jonturk invited to him to the ceremony (..do you wantto come to a meditation?..) so I wrote Meditation Group at Kadikoy, a picture of the peace experience from Selfliberation book and the sentence " There is a way of directing and concentrating the energy that circulates througg the body, and my Turkish telephone (that I get the day before with my passport) and my personal email. And Silo.net. As it was an experiemnt, I only wrote my details. Before printing I showed it to Jonturk, who did some changes, and we did 80 copies, 60 in Turkish and 20 in English. On next days, when we was for anything we fixed posters. we have finished to place the 80 poster, no calls yet (even for good or bad deals). When Hussein saw the poster, his eyes started to brigth, and he asked me, Why dont you write the Salita adress? ? why dont the Saturdays gathering? HOw will the poeple coenct when you will leave?. He likes the idea. Nacho wrote the Salita adress and ceremnies schedule, and use them as leaflet, when we go for a áy or toplay tabola and someone come to us, specialy use to be young people, so he talk and gives them the leaflet.
Carlos
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