A Good Week...

Sunday, May 16th, 2010

This has been quite a good week, I must say. First off, I will begin my 7th week of my Strayer College studies and I am pleased to say I have been doing very well at this point. I recently did my first Strayer Midterm Exam for my course and I really aced it with 50 out of 50 correct (A.K.A. 100%). Three or four days of going over my materials seem to have paid off. Needless to say, the results were pleasing to me and my parents.

On Friday (5/14/10), my family and I had our first European movie theater outing. It was an English language theater where foreign films with English (like from the U.S.) are viewed in their original audio rendition, complete with full subtitling in French. The film we all chose to see that day was the recently released Iron Man 2, and I'll tell you, it was quite a fun experience. It was well acted, there were nice lighthearted moments, the action scenes were well done, the story was engaging, and the music score just rocked. All in all, I felt it was pretty much on par with the first film. We expect to see more films there in the future, and the next one that we plan to see soon is the new Robin Hood film by Ridley Scott.

Following the film, Kian and I had our first dinner at a sidewalk cafe. The food was enjoyable for the most part  and the place itself was nice. I expect more ventures to sidewalk cafes in the future.

On a separate note, we had our 3rd visit to the American Library in Paris on Saturday and we all got a number of new books to explore. The visits seem to get better with each one the more we explore the library.

By Niall