Overwhelm Me

A portion of the massive TeenStreet crowd that gathers together in the Main Hall each morning and evening.

Hello from TeenStreet Germany!  I have decided after several days of thinking about it that I am not even going to try to do regular updates here about the conference.  It's just too much to say and do, especially when my role here includes that very thing.

The Newsletter Table with all 11 translations.  Taken @ lunch, so many were already taken.

One of my roles puts me in a team of three other graphic designers within the Communications Team--we design the daily newsletter, which is to be translated and printed in eleven different languages.  One or two of us makes the master design in English after all of the content has been submitted to the server.  By the time the master design is complete, most of the translators have submitted their translations of the articles and we divvy up the languages to lay out the text.  We receive original/English articles at noon; design submission to the print shop has a midnight deadline but we have been well ahead of schedule each of our days.

My Italy supervisor/fellow TeenStreet Graphic Designer Anna has some more in-depth info on the process on her blog.  Check out her post here: http://oncecalledarty.blogspot.com/2009/08/teenstreet-newsletter-1st-edition.html

Behold! The TeenStreet Twitter page, brought to you by the Tweetmaster.

My second primary role is that of the "Tweetmaster." (In our meetings during Preparation Week it sounded that I knew the most about Twitter so I was given the job.) TeenStreet Germany has a Twitter account (TeenStreetDE) that is more or less "TeenStreet through the eyes of Kyle," though we have had a guest tweet or two and the first tweets were made by the tech guy who set up the account.  I used elements already in the design guidelines/on the TeenStreet web site to design the Twitter page so it was a pretty painless affair.

You can check out the TeenStreet Twitter page here if you would like to access it in that way.  A big bonus to being the "Tweetmaster" is that I get access to the conference center's WiFi--something that not even the Communications Team supervisors have, if I am not mistaken.

Yours Truly and Ruben, my new German friend, strike some fetching poses.

That's all for now--I am planning a couple posts related to some of what the conference itself is up to, what I hear and see from it and such, but if you are curious for how God is working here, I would really recommend checking out the Twitter feed and or the main TeenStreet web site.  More on the way.