The Challenges of Designing Something in Four Languages!

This past week I've got to experience something I've never thought of before...how to design a poster for an event in four different languages! This is something I've never learned how to do and I would imagine it's something that's not taught too often. For all events at the Oasis, everything needs to be translated into German, English, Russian, and Farsi. Well, as you can see in the image, it makes for a very interesting poster with many different looks. English and German look very similar, but the Russian and Farsi have very foreign characters. The poster is for our World Refugee Celebration on June 19th. Working with many different languages is something we deal with on a daily basis at the Oasis. For example, on Wednesday nights we mark in each Bible the appropriate passage for the message. As you can imagine, it is not always that easy. (The Farsi is read from right to left and the book is backwords to us also) I'm sure very soon using so many different languages will become a habit, but for now it makes for some interesting designing!

Getting Setup in Austria

We finally arrived back in Austria after three months in Germany. These past days have been very busy for us. We've moved in and started to set up our apartment. We had only seen pictures of the apartment we moved into, so it was good to see it in person. There has been some work that we've had to do in the apartment (like taking down old wallpaper from the 60's and adding some color to the rooms!). After now having a place of our own since last August, it's good to finally have a home. We've also been doing a lot of setup things since we arrived (setting up a bank account, getting internet and phone ordered for our home, meeting with the team leaders for some orientation things, and many other things). It is so good to be back though. We can't wait to start full time at the Oasis very soon!