Totoro

Rewatching this now (I'm at ep. 22). Rarely rewatch dramas. This one is so bittersweet and sad, but at the same time so heart warming. It is a long watch, but I don't even skip a minute with the rewatch. I will be satisfied if the second series is even half as good as this one.

Apparently it is called “Promise” by Im Byung-soo. Didn't find a good recording yet though :P.

Can somebody tell me the name of the song he is singing?
Edit: Never mind, found it :).

I hope his 'life force' or whatever it is the doctor from the old times told him doesn't flow with him on this planet will start flowing again because he will finally think of earth as his home, now his heart is truly here (maybe that's why his powers are coming back again).

Consequence: he will be able to stay.

She did a great job in the moon that embraces the sun. Very good acting.

Never cried so much because of one drama. Like every other episode :P. But there were a lot of funny parts too :D.

Must agree that some of the child actors were actually better than their adult counterparts. But it was an amazing drama. I'm very glad I watched and I'm quite satisfied with how they wrapped things up.

Hahaha, I'm sure you won't. But I was also a bit glad that I didn't grew up in Belgium :P.

Hahaha :D.

Hmm, let me think. In elementary school (so until we are 12 years old) I had school from 08:30 until 15:15. We had a break where we could go home from 12:00 until 13:15 to eat lunch with our parents.
On Wednesday we had school until 13:00 I think... and then we could go home (so a free afternoon). And the little children also had the Friday afternoon of.

In highschool it was different per group and what kind of classes you had. There were days where I only had a few hours of school. But there were also days were (especially when you were older) could be at school from 08:15 until 17:00. If you have lunch, you have it at school.

And in university/college it really depends. Like law school sometimes only has a few hours a week, were as other studies might want you to be there from 09:00 until 19:00 or something :P.

So that is the Netherlands. Of course there are some differences for each school.

In Belgium they make actually even more hours I think. These children spent a lot of hours at school. Schools in Belgium often have a warm meal for lunch, which everyone eats.

Yeah I remember that we learned in our German class that in Germany you only have to go to school until 14:00 max. or something and that everyone eats at home then. So that's true? We were al quite jealous when we heard that :D.

Your teacher sounds like a great guy, hehe. I would love to have ice cream in class :P.

It was a well managed school. Not extremely rich, but surely well maintained. And in the last location they had this really nice aula (the place where you eat your lunch and such) with plants and nice positioned chairs and tables... It felt kind of like an veranda... They did not have a lot of extra curricular activities. Well, they had a school magazine and I actually wrote articles for it. And if you where interested in acting you could try to get into a play they sometimes organised. Now I actually remembered I was in a school play, lol (forgot that). I had some bad teachers, but a lot of them were really good and were there for you when you had questions or just wanted to talk. My favorite subject was history. Because my main focus of classes was on biology and science (next to the 'normal' lessons like dutch) not a lot of my classmates had history classes in the last two years. So I already enjoyed history, but then we were only with 6 students and a really cool teacher. So we had the most amazing lessons and perhaps talked 15 minutes about history and then had discussions about anything. But in the end we had amazing grades (even on the national tests), so this 15 minutes of history was more informative than another teacher could teach is in a hour :D.

Fun to hear about the activities in your school. Do you play in the orchestra or write for the student magazine?

It is good that they update on fire safety. That's really important. But I can understand that it looks like shit for now ;).

Well, I've finished my school. High school was nice. It was a school with multiple locations. So the first year I was in a semi-big location only 5 minutes by bike. Then year 2 and 3 it was 15 minutes by bike, on the outskirts of my town. It was very small and you would know every teacher and student there. I liked it. Then for the last two years it was at another town, about 25 minutes by bike. It was a lot bigger, with a lot of staircases, haha. I really enjoyed it there too, because in the last years you have more of a choice of what kind of classes you want to take. But some teacher were really bad and we even managed to play card games in some of the classes.

It is already great that we have the opportunity to learn multiple languages. With your knowledge you will be able to communicate already in a lot of countries. But you are right: if you are not interested in a certain language, it is very hard to learn (and in my opinion) quite useless to do so then. And if one day you decide you want to learn French, you can always take a course and then you will probably learn it a lot faster :D.

It is a shame that your school does not offer the same kind of languages the others schools do. But perhaps they have other good points? The chinese course sounds really interesting. I followed a presentation last year from a visiting Chinese teacher about Chinese medicine. This was very informative! We could really learn some things in the western world from them.

Sometimes schools offer a lot of languages, but the lessons are very short. And when you finish school you still have the feeling you can not speak the language at al, haha :D.

Hahaha, yeah I also greatly disliked French in school. In the last two years of our study we could drop either French or German (we learned French, German, English and of course Dutch in school and you could also have either Greek, Latin or Spanish, I did not). So I dropped French :P. I was very good in German, but mostly the reading/understanding, because the grammar was difficult for me.

I actually took another year of School, so I could pass the highest level (to be able to go to university). I decided to do French. That was kind of a disaster, because I didn't have French for more than two years AND they where on a higher level. I forgot everything on my oral exam, hahaha. But fortunately the biggest exam was reading and deciphering texts. So there I had a very good mark and in the end I passed with a good grade... but really, my French is not good at all :D.

But now I wish I had paid more attention, because it comes in so handy to be able to speak/understand multiple languages. I'm even thinking of starting to learn French again.

If you seen so much of Belgium you probably travelled a lot to other places too. I love travelling, but for now I've only seen European countries.

I actually think Japanese (language) is easier for me. Of course, the Korean writing is a lot less complicated, but based purely on what I understand when I watch dramas/films/animes I can follow Japanese a lot better. I also like the sounds, it is very rhythmic and can sometimes sound as poetry to me.

For your age your English is extremely good and I suppose you know your German en perhaps even an Arabic language too?
I also read on your profile you are learning Korean? You must be really good with languages!

It is nice to have a parent that supports you in your hobbies! Especially if he can drive you, haha :D. Is your father the German or the Syrian parent?

I did not watch blue exorcist yet. I don't watch a lot of shounen/action animes.

Thank you :D. I really love Germany too, although I've only seen small parts of it. It is very big compared to the Netherlands or Belgium!

Just 3 months ago I went for a weekend to the Eifel region. It was very beautiful, but two days weren't nearly enough to explore around the village.

I like Howl too. The drawings are very beautiful and the story is funny, interesting and cute. I feel the same about Elfenlied. I thought it a special story, but it was a bit too brutal for me I think. It actually also means fairy song in Dutch :P.

I also think its funny my father told me about animes, because a lot of times people discover it themselves or because of friend/family the same age as they are.

I prefer K-drama. I do enjoy J-drama, but they can be quit 'strange' for someone not Japanese (I guess). But when I'm in the mood I enjoy them very much. They are much more refreshing and strangly humorous. K-dramas sometimes are to dramatic. And maybe the Japanese films are better than the Korean ones.

Where did you go in Belgium? What do your parents think of animes, mangas and Asian series? What are your other favourite animes?

I'm from the Netherlands, so a neighbour country ;). But these last few years I've lived in Belgium, because I live together with my boyfriend.

I started watching them in my late teens (I think). I discovered animes first. Actually because of my father. He was a real addict (don't know how he suddenly learned about them though, I think because of his students, because he is a teacher). So he gave me Howl's moving castle and Elfenlied and Midori No Hibi and such and then I was hooked. Then through friends I discovered K-drama and then I found out about J-drama and C-drama too.

I never really got into Mangas and I don't really listen to Asian music a lot either.

Yeah sure, hehe ;). What is your age? Where are you from. And if you are not from an Asian country: how did you discover Asian dramas and films?

Thank you, I will check it out ;).

I'm 25, so yeah, legal for me ;). I had this really nice bitter (it is this alcohol with herbs like Jagermeister). And this is quit strong, so a had a little bit and now I'm a bit emotional (combined with the fact that I can't watch the series anyy further for now) :D.

Yeah and I drank to much alcohol, so now I'm extra emotional, lol :D.... :'(