England Day 4

Today we drove to a section of Hadrian's Wall, a 1,900 year old wall built By the Roman Empire, starting approximately in 122 AD. The exact reason for the wall's existence isn't clear, but it may have been built to keep the Scottish warriors from getting in to the Roman conquered Britain. We hiked along side about 1 mile of the wall, taking pictures, and getting rained on. It was worth the trouble. I put up the pictures on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardglensailors/sets/72157627264708455/

Here I am sitting on the edge of one of the cliffs.

Here's Jay sitting on the edge of the same cliff. 

Jay took this pic of me shooting pics of the wall, and cliffs.

-Richard

England Day 3

Today Jay and I rented a vehicle, and drove to Sterling, Scotland and visited the William Wallace Monument and Museum. It took us 2.5 hours to get there and 5 hours, thanks to a stop in Edinburgh, and Jay's backroad directions. It was a full day of driving, hiking, stair climbing, and picture taking. We didn't return back until late, so I haven't had time to prepare any photos for the blog, but I did put them up on Flickr. I'll post a few here tomorrow. Thanks.

England Day 2

Today Jay and I traveled with Bryce, Jay's boss, and his family to the Lake District to take pictures. That place was beautiful, and very old. It was amazing to see walls built 100's of years ago, some of which are older than America. Here are a few pics. 

 Royal Air Force flew by

If you'd like to see more pics from today, I've uploaded them to my Flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardglensailors/

-Richard

England day 1

Teenstreet is over, we packed up and left, and I'm now in Carlisle, UK. We stayed up till 3 am Saturday morning packing, and got back up at 9 am Saturday morning to finish packing. We hit the road headed to Frankfurt around 11:30am, and got to the airport and to the gate by 2:30pm. Landed in Manchester around 5:30pm, and took a bus to Carlisle. Finally got to Jay's place around 10 pm. I'm glad to be done with TeenStreet, and to get some rest. TeenStreet was awesome, and I hope to return next year. It was amazing to see, twice daily, 3000 teens gather to worship and learn about Christ.

This week I'll get to visit OMNIvision's head quarters, and visit many cool sites near Carlisle, and even in Scotland. 

Here's the video I edited for the CleanStreet guys. I would've posted it earlier, but the internet wasn't fast enough at TS. 

 Here are some pics I took at the airport, while waiting on our flight. 

 This is Ben, one of the guys that helped us load in and out of TeenStreet.

-Richard

TeenStreet day 6

Not a lot happened today, other than the sessions, and a much needed nap. Tomorrow we pack up and prepare to leave Saturday for Carlisle, England. I'm looking forward to being able to read signs again, and to be able to sleep past 8:00am.


-Richard

TeenStreet Day 5

Today, as part of the TeenStreet Outreach day, the teens set up tables in downtown Offenburg, to create the worlds longest table for serving coffee and cake. I'm not sure if they passed the old record or not, but they did draw a big crowd, and got to participate in evangelism and outreach. The streets were very crowded, and it was an amazing atmosphere. Coffee and cake was provided by a local baker for free, just collected donations if wanted, and all donations went to missions.

This evenings session was interesting as well. We held a special DVD recording "concert" for the band, so they could have DVDs to sell. It was more intricate than our usual services, and I was on Camera 3 for some special hard to get shots. Funny enough, Camera 3 decided to start a high pitch whine that was so loud that people 50 feet away could hear, and were complaining. Needless to say I had to shut it down, and  had to do some work on it. It's fine now, but we'll see how it acts in the morning.

Camera 3 wasn't the only thing that was "sick" today. I woke up with a sore throat, and sweating a lot. I tried to keep it to myself, and flush whatever it was out with water and orange juice. It helped, and after a nap I'm feeling much better. Just need more rest, and vitamins. Water's healthy and all, but it's lacking.

Despite feeling bad, I made myself go to the Coffee Cake thing in town, and took some pics. I knew I'd regret it if I didn't. Here are some of my faves:

 Cake

 Coffe and Cake

 City Hall, with tons of people 

 Walking postcard?

Adam, the other guy that was in the CleanStreet video I edited. 

-Richard 

TeenStreet Day 4

The "CleanStreet" video was shown tonight before the evening session, and it was a huge hit! The kids erupted in laughter and applause, way better response than I expected. The rest of the day went well too, but the video took the cake.

I helped teach a workshop this afternoon, and taught the kids that signed up how the studio cameras work, and showed them proper framing. Even let them get their hands on one, for about 3 minutes each. It was fun. Most of them spoke good English, but others I had to be more creative in how to teach them. Lots of charades and pointing. I had no clue I'd be teaching people in other countries how to operate equipment. God is amazing.

After that Jay and I biked into Offenburg again, and got some great pics of an old church, and some cool flowers that were on the way.

I'm putting more pics on my flickr account.

-Richard

Teenstreet Day 3

This morning's sessions were interesting, being that there were 2 of them split up girls then guys. It was funny to see that TeenStreets population is 2/3s girls. Each session was geared towards identities as individuals, and how our identities need to be rooted in Christ alone, not in what we do, or what we like, or what happened to us as children. Much needed session.

This afternoon I finished the video I had been working on for the "CleanStreet" team by adding German subtitles. In order for any video to be shown in the main assemblies, it must have German subtitles. Thankfully there are 3 german guys on our team, that speak good english, and helped me with the language. The video will be show tomorrow morning before the session starts.

After the video was done Jay and I took more event photos of the teens during rec. I took over 1100 pics, in less than an hour. Jay got some cool footage with his GlideCam rig, which he'll use later for a countdown video.

Bryce, one of the leaders, got some cool pictures of me running Camera 1:

Here's Jay, Timmy and I during one of our crew meetings. 

-Richard