jet setter.

I thought I was well travelled until I got this job.  Since Carlisle is the head office of this international organization, a lot of people here do a lot of travelling.  It doesn't help my record that a lot of them served in the ships ministry! This month, however, I have been quite the traveller. For two weeks, I was in Istanbul with another graphic designer. Then I got home on Wednesday night at 11pm, on Thursday morning at 8:30 I got picked up by some friends, we went to Northern Ireland for the long Easter weekend. 

Istanbul: wow, what a huge city! I've never been in such a massive place in all my life. It was good to spend some time there, but I would not want to live there. The food is good, and it was nice being on the sea...but there were so many people! All cramming into the bus, the tram, the train, the streets; living in apartments stacked on top of eachother.

It was also a very busy working time! Ideas were flowing, computer hard disks were whizzing as the file sizes got larger and larger with more and more photoshop layers. This was the first time my co-worker and I had actually worked on any projects together, despite working in the same office.  We got along so well, it was a great blessing!

One day we got to take in the sights and see the influence of where the East meets the West, where cultures collide.  It was an experience I am so glad I got to have.  Thank you to all of you who were praying for us while on this trip.

Inside the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul, Turkey.  We spent over an hour wandering around, absorbing the many motifs, mosaics, and designs, on our quest to discover the "Turkishness" that we needed for our many projects ahead.