Cherry Blossom Festival... : 0

This past week has been a good and productive week, and I have completed most of the assignments for this coming up week already, with a few exceptions, but overall, the homework has been good:) In history, we have to read Candide, which is by Voltaire, and it is really sarcastic and funny, sometimes mocking other Enlightenment thinkers, but sometimes supporting them. It was one of the first really entertaining books that I have read in the European history class. The other books were also good, but I liked Candide the best. In Calculus, we are determining whether or not series are divergent (have a finite sum), and have been using various tests to do that. In Physics, we are now dealing with electricity and circuits and are just starting magnetism, which is also fun. The main thing in business, is now not so much the class, but more so just working on the project each weekend. I had my part done already, but we had to type it as a group so that it would sound consistent, so we met on Saturday morning at 10:30, because that is as early as one of the members wanted to get up, when personally I wanted to get going as fast as possible, so I could go see the Cherry blossoms with Amy and her friends.

Woops, I missed Friday. On Friday, Amy and I just worked at our own Universities for most of the afternoon, so we would have more time with less stress for the Cherry blossoms, and would be able to have more free time! Anyway, she did, however come up to American after 8, and she brought some Chinese takeout food from Kitchen No. 1. It only has takeout, so it is cheaper than other Chinese food restaurants, and it is super greasy and delicious. The fried rice has lots of meat in it (pork, chicken, shrimp, and possibly beef) and it is really good. Amy also got General Tso's chicken which was also excellent! We ate the food and listened to music and looked up music videos/facebook news and relaxed. Then, she went home, so she could hopefully get a lot of sleep, because she was lacking over the course of the week.

On Saturday, We met at 10:30 as I already described. Then it took a long long time to get typing at a good rate. It was very frustrating, but we eventually got 1 page done by 12:30 (single spaced) and then had some lunch, and finished the paper (2 more pages) in only 3 hours more. It should be pretty good, I think, but you never really know with this professor:S We will see when we meet with him to discuss it sometime this week. After that was finally over, I just rode my scooter down to Georgetown, because since it was raining and not nice outside, Amy and her friends didn't stay there very long. We then did some homework and then went to an Acapella concert! It had 3 different groups from Georgetown, one from American, one from Yale, "Baker's Dozen," and one from University of Rochester. They were all pretty good, except we couldn't hear the AU guys very well, since the lead singer used the center mic, which wasn't working. The Yale guys were amazing though. The Yale guys dedn't even really use the mics except for the soloist, they just lined up like in this video. There were only 13 there though, this must have had all the alternates too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJhmzUQNpXQ

Anyway, we then did some more homework and then I went home.

On Sunday, I got up fairly early and read a bit and then met Amy down at Georgetown to walk/scooter with to church (depending on the incline). The service was pretty short, and we had potluck afterwards that was really good, but as soon as choir practice after lunch was over, we went all the way down town to the CHerry blossom festival. It was pretty crowded since it was a nice day and its the peak of Cherry blossom time, so we had to walk after we got into the crowds enough. We were following a path next to the river, but we realized that we couldn't get to the right place that way, so after we had passed the Lincoln memorial, we had to go all the way back up around it and then down towards the Jefferson memorial where the trees are. We got there saw them. It was pretty cool to see so many trees flowering at once, but the really cool part for me was the smell of the millions of flowers. We walked around the very very crowded tidal basin and then made our way across the national mall and over to the National gallery of art. On our way, we passed this man playing buckets and barrels as a way to try to get some money. It was really cool. There always seems to be something like that going on down there. Amy is doing one of her term papers for history about how some artists in the 1800s were in reaction to the industrial revolution, and since the paintings were here in DC, we decided to take a look at them. We checked in our scooters, grabbed a map, and then found the right room. We found some pictures that would work, and then tried to interpret as much as we could from each of them. They are available online, but it is just more clear and large to see the actual ones that are probably 5 feet tall or so, and it is much cooler to see them in person. After that, we started our long scooter ride home. It is the same cross street as the Lady Gaga concert, way over in the middle of town, but it was a good scooter ride. We started at 7th NW and had to get to 37th NW. We were on E and had to eventually get up to M, but once on M, everything was familiar, because it is pretty close to Georgetown. Anyway, it was a really long ride, and we were very glad for the chairs when we got back to Georgetown! We ate some of the candy that Amy had picked up at a party thing the night before, and ever tried a monster energy drink. I think it has too much energy in it to be good for you, but anyway, that's that we did.

I then went home and worked on an outline for the essay I was doing for my History class.

For those that didn't see my facebook status, or don't use one, all in all, I scootered/walked 17.9 miles or 1,120,000 inches:)

Today, I have just been doing my homework, but think I will go sit outside for a while now, because it is 82 out there:) Spring is finally here, but I'm not sure how long it will stay this warm, because tomorrow it is supposed to be in the mid 50s again.

Thank you for reading.

Travis