花より男子 season 1

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花より男子 (boys over flowers) is a live action series coming from a Shōjo manga series by Yoko Kamio. It was released in 2005 by TBS.

Eitoku Gakuen school is rules by four boys called F4 (Flower 4). Of course every one in this school is rich. But Mimasaka Akira, Nishikado Sojiro, Hanasawa Rui and Domyuji Tsukasa are rich to a totally different level, their families basically own the school. Tsukasa is violent and selfish, he is also the leader of the F4 and decide on the Aka fliers, the red notices that transform the life of students into hell.
Makino Tsukushi is the only poor student of the school. She has completely different values and is not ready to follow the order of the F4 just because they have money. She tries to stay quiet, not to be noticed by them and raging when she is alone to avoid trouble. Until the day when Tsukasa decide to take his anger on her new friend Sanjo Sakurako. Starting from there, Tsukushi becomes the F4 target until she declares publicly war to Tsukasa.



I love this drama, I watched it so many time and listened to it so many time to learn Japanese. I know that there are other drama, I'm thinking about watching Hana Kimi really soon. But I want to be able to fully understand the language in this one. I also bought the manga series so I have some reading to do.
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America : Kansas State University campus

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I needed to go spend two months in America for work. So I have been in Kansas for a bit more than a month now. I work on the Kansas State University campus and here are some pictures of the place. I didn't really explore the all campus so that's just the places I'm seeing walking to work from my apartment.
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Europe tour Interail 2006 : České Budějovice, a colored city

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We needed to take several trains to go from Pula to České Budějovice, we missed our train in Salzburg as one in the previous train was late. We arrived in České Budějovice in the afternoon. It is the largest city of the south Bohemian region in Czech Republic but it is still a quiet place. The houses are all very colorful which makes the city particular, it is also well know for its beer brewed since the 13th century. The city also present different type of architecture form Baroque, Gothic, Renaissance and 19th century period, and all that around the main place.
There are the ruins of a castle some 30 km south in the city of Český Krumlov but the interail pass only allows us to go to places accessible by train so we couldn't see them. That can probably be added to the long list of future destinations.
We take the train to our next destination at 1am, being alone in it allow us to get some well deserved sleep.
Europe tour Interail 2006 : Introduction 
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Europe tour Interail 2006 : Pula, bath in the adriatic sea

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We took our train to Pula at 7.00 am and arrived at the end of the morning. Pula is the largest city in Istria, a region of Croatia which was known by the Romans as the Terra Magica. It's name comes from the Histri an Illyrian tribe that the Romans as pirates. There are several caves near Pula, Lim fjord, Šandalja and Roumald's with archaeological remains from stone age, we didn't have a chance to visit them so we will have to go back in the future.
The first thing we saw in the city was the Pula amphitheater that looks a bit like the Colosseo. We really wanted to go to the sea so I used my Croatian to get direction. That was kinda fun, I just don't speak Croatian so I had trouble understand the answers. We walk to the sea, that was pretty far and took a bath there. Sebastian got stuck by urchin, he probably stepped on them. We started to go back and were almost sure to be late for the train but fortunately the hitch-hacking worked and an someone from Lugano took us back to the city center. We have the time to enjoy ourselves and have a drink before taking the next trains.
Europe tour Interail 2006 : Introduction 
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