Sunday 18 June 2006, Margarita Brendinger:

As it was raining today, we decided to go to the Museum of Modern Art (it's dry there!) There were exhibition about:

Ireland photography 1952 – 2005 (Magnum gallery): divided into two parts. There were photographs about Irish life now and then, especially about the independent war of Northern Ireland.
Irish Art of the 70ies:
Many pictures of different artists. Look at the photos to get an idea. The third exhibition was about the Portuguese artist Joao Penalva, where they showed his installations, photographs and drawings.
All in all it was ok, it was for free! I found the Magnum Ireland exhibition the most exciting one.
Afterwards we went shopping in the city centre of Dublin. There are very many shops for clothes, souvenirs, and food – all very expensive.
At six o'clock it was dinner time, we had to be in our families for that. In the evening we were looking around Baldoyle, the little suburb we're staying at.
I went to bed early, because I had to get up early the next day. It was our first day at school. I was really looking forward to that.
After the first two days in Ireland I'd say it's great here. I don't think it'll get less exciting here.