Turkey // Let's have olives for breakfast and Ayran to drink

Rabia arrived home after a 12-hour flight.

Exhausted to wear those high heels and that tight skirt.

She sat on the bed, unbuckled her blazer, stretched her arms, kicked off the heels and laid on the bed staring at the ceiling.

Staring at the ceiling...finally some rest.

It took a good 15 minutes to realize there was an unheard message on the answering machine. That red sign... she was not really in the mood to hear that she should have started a new shift in 8 hours.

She just wanted to stare at that ceiling.

Flight assistant - that was her job


"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it."

At that very moment the doorbell rang. Her neighbour, Özge, came to drag her to the Altın günü (*).

Özge: "Rabia, did you check your calendar?"
Rabia: "... what?... hey Özge, I was about to sleep..12-hour flight.. hemmm"
Özge: "It's the Altın günü..come on... you promised you would have been there this time.."

Özge grabbed Rabia from her hand and she dragged her fiercely to her place.

It was her third time she handled to stop home for more than 8 hours and she just wanted to enjoy some "no-flow".

"If there is free flow, there is no pain; if there is pain, there is lack of free flow.”

At that table she found all she was expecting form her place: chai, ayran and Altın günü.

Altın günü is the best way to keep up with all the misdeeds and gossip among friends and neighbors and to make some good savings. Rabia was happy to have some contacts with the earth and that was the best way for her to be up to all the facts happening while she was in the sky.

Furthermore, it is a good example of solidarity among women and well.. sooner or later it would have been her turn ;)

She had in plan to purchase that beautiful Kartell chandelier. She thought how it could look superb while staring at the ceiling.. the chandelier..

Rabia arrived home after a 4-hour Altın günü.

Exhausted to wear those high heels and that tight skirt.

She sat on the bed, unbuckled her blazer, stretched her arms, kicked off the heels and laid on the bed staring at the ceiling.

Staring at the ceiling...finally some rest.

Flight assistant - that was her job


(*) Altın günü DEFINITION:

Altın Günü (The Day of Gold) is a specific form of Turkish women’s networks functioning as a type of rotating savings and credit association promoting both savings and make financial capital available to its members with trustworthy relationships.

A way of empowering women by mutual assistance of other women. For example, a person is inviting at her place a group of friends and each of them gives .. let's say... 50,00 €, that makes a good amount of money for the host. Well that is a kind of rotating savings, because on a next reunion, all the other people will receive the money back.

Hope you get somehow what I mean... if not... let me know and I will try to explain it better. And of course I will talk about olives and ayran another day ;)