The mountain walk
After having had a nice lunch some of us decided to take a walk somewhere on the island. (Well today it was not raining and we needed to take advantage of this luxury.) Alin,Maria, Anders and the two of us (Jerry and Andreas) from the Swedish team together with Marc, Katrin and Jochen form the German group joined Lili on this excursion.We left the hostel and started off towards the Deserted Village, an early settlement on Achill Island.
Then the real walk started. We struggeled, we fell and we sweated our way towards the top of Slievemore. When we reached a huge white stone we sat down and had a break. Here we thanked Jochen that he was clever enough to bring some water and unselfish enough to share it with us.
Since the weather conditions allowed it we continued a bit higher and it was worth every stumbling step. At the top the view was stunning. The rugged mountains fell to the angry sea and the sun was just about to set behind the rolling mountains in the horizon. The word "amazing" is not strong enough.
Here we raised the official "Achill Island Project 2000" flag. There were tears in everyone´s eye. Yes, the wind was strong. Yes, we were tired. Yes, our feet were wet but still we felt the pride of our incredible achievement.
by Jerry Engström & Andreas Eglund
Pictures at an Exhibition
We went to Western Light art Gallery in Keel and were led through the exhibition by Margaret Cannon who gave us an interesting summary of the artists showing and selling their works and the gallery.Currently 20 paintings are exhibited at the gallery. The paintings shown are being changed several times a year.
- Joan Scarlan is an artist who works some month of the year in Keel and specialises in silk-painting. Her works reminded us of fairy tales.
- Alex McKenna has a more typical Irish style which is obviously due to his origin.
- John Behar RHA, a very well known Irish painter and sculpturer who also spends time in Keel, made a strong impression on us.
- Dutch painter Alexandra von Tuyll's works conjured up the light and atmosphere of the sea and mountains on Achill.
- René Böll, the son of German writer Heinrich Böll has also paintings exhibited in the gallery. His paintings are quite abstract and express a strong atmosphere the manner he uses colours.
Introduction to diamond brackets and the secrets in between (html-course)
Tuesday night Helga and Magnus introduced a large group of us to the first steps of the use of html-codes to produce your own webpage. Most of us had never done anything similar before and thus thought at first that we had to learn a new alphabet. However, we then realized that they were only giving us a "dry training" where no computer was involved. This was partially due to the fact that we simply didn't have enough computers at the hostel. But prospects of putting to work the new alphabet in the IT-Centre in Keel the following day kept us in a good mood nevertheless. There we had the chance to start working on our own web pages and the results were quite entertaining. Maybe some of them can be found on the web soon.Katrin Uhl
Dr. Laurent Borgmann
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