Haci Suleyman Bey Ilk Okulu

Haci Suleyman Bey Ilk Okulu

Haci Suleyman Bey Ilk Okulu is an elementary school located at Cibali area of Haydar neighbourhood in Istanbul, Turkey.  It is the school that I attended for grade 2 and grade 3 around the years 1978 and 1979.  I have wonderful memories while attending this school and living in this area.  

Haci Suleyman Bey Ilk Okulu

The phone number of the school is:

0212-521-1126. The address is: Cibali mahallesi, Mustakbel sair baki sokak, no 7, Fatih, Istanbul.  Here is a short video of the surroundings and of the school itself I filmed in August of 2017, the link of the YouTube video is below, enjoy. https://youtu.be/djb0RyPIKaU

Take care, 

The First Date

The First Date

Here is the story:

(told in point form; therefore fill in the gaps, in your mind)

Listen,

- when he was 19, she was 17,

- in Fatih, Istanbul, in the evening, when he returned to the neighbourhood from work,

- many girls in the neighbourhood would be perched infront of their windows waiting for him to come home, 

- the girls would come out side to run into him, by accident,

- he was a good looking kid, 

- however, he saw her,

- she was a beautiful young lady,

- he followed her home,

- he asked her out,

- the next night, he showed up at her front door, for the first date,

- he was wearing an old t-shirt, he was not-well-off...poor,

- she gave him a new buttoned down shirt, one of her father's,

- he wore it, they went out,

- after the date, they were walking back home late that night,

- her father sees them, from a distance,

- the father sees him wearing his brand new shirt,

- the father goes home to wait for his daughter,

- remember, this is not Canada, it is Turkia,

- it is 1966,

- the father looks in the closet, the shirt is not there,

- the father waits for her at the house,

- she comes home,

- the father asks her "who he was", 

- she says, he lives around the corner,

- the father says, "I like him, he can keep the shirt",

- the young couple,

- my mom & dad,

Sincerely.