Well today... all of TY went to Dublin on an english tour to see many museums. We saw the WB Yeats exhibition.. It was really interesting! They had many of his notebooks, awards, pictures, information on his family and friends.... even a hat he wore and his old school reports! I learnt that he was born on 13th June 1865 and died in 1939. He wrote so many poems during his life time. It was very interesting learning about him!
Next,we went to another part of the museum. We saw many things that were found in the bog. At first, we saw many old weapons, jewellery, hammers... all made of gold... bronze or flint. It was really amazing to find out that these items survived in a bog for thousands of years! Then... we saw the bog bodies... We saw four. Some were more well preserved than others. Some of them were amazing... you could see the hands of one of them amazingly preserved... saw another still had his toe nails and there was even preserved hair! It was interesting to see... but quite gruesome at the same time...
After that.. we had lunch... which was quite fun :) not many times that during school you can have your lunch in grafton street :)
After lunch.. we saw the Jack Yeats Art Exhibition. It was interesting as we saw that his style had changed as he got older from a realistic artist to an impressionist artist. Some of his art was really different,.. and he showed a lot of emotion and feeling in his impressionist art. After that.. we saw other art exhibits. Some of them were so realistic that they looked like photographs! Some were really colorful.. and others were complete different styles altogether!
I really enjoyed today :) hope we do it again soon :)
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