Looking back at 2021

2021 is drawing to a close and we're about to enter the year 2022! Some of you speedy time travelers are already there!

We haven't been doing year reviews lately, but a lot has happened at Kokoro over the course of the past year, and I thought this year it would be worth covering some of those things!

So many new students have joined us

This year we have seen way more new faces than usual, many of which have went on to become enrolled students at our school!

I would like to start celebrating our students more, so I would like to show all of the people who joined captains books this year!

Mirara	Nise	Snow
Garguile (Later known as Nezu!)	Kaguya	Nuzzia
Mizuki	Pururin	Remeindre
Duckie	Amaya	Scylla
Lyra	ZeFritter	Caero
Scribbles	Cereil

Our students are all an important part of Kokoro, without them Kokoro would not be a very interesting place to be!

We had our first ever Official Yearbook Photo!

Many of our students old and new gathered for a Yearbook Photo this year!

Entertainment before the Photo~

 

We've been a busy school with Clubs and Activities

For the first time in Kokoro's history, we have had active clubs for students to participate in, several of which have been opened by our students!

We have Dance Club headed by Pururin, Photography Club by Maki and Duckie launched Curry Club!

Photography Club putting on an Awesome Halloween Dance Event at Kokoro
So many people came to spend Halloween at Kokoro and see the Dance Event~

 

Decoration Club put together wonderful Christmas Decorations, where we spent much of Christmas together~

Nezu and Duckie putting on a Christmas Play~

 

We formed a new Student Council which has been hard at work

A functioning Student Council has been formed at Kokoro that has been having meetings several times a month this year.

With the aid of the council, many new things have been developed and more planned for Kokoro. We've put together an official Enrolment policy which has helped to make it easier for new guests to integrate and become a part of Kokoro. As a result, many more students than usual have joined us!

We've been working on things to support teaching at Kokoro too! We have also been planning the development of Seiiki, the town island!

We finally got our Male Uniforms!

This year, Kokoro finally got its male uniforms! We have already seen students start to adopt them and we hope you enjoy them!

...And a new Cable Car Station

This year saw the development and installation of Kokoro's new Cable Car Station in Seiiki!

The station is a custom mesh with materials where new building techniques were tested~ Ni provided us with ticket machines too!

With the station we also deloped a Ticket System that helps us to maintain customs and traditions at our school, as we work to turn our school into a students first environment~

2022

We're working on building a town for our students to live in!

This year, we intend to place much of our focus on Seiiki, our town island. Specifically, we will be developing the side of the island from the Heliport up to the station, turning it from an empty path to a vibrant town!

We want to build many different types of shops, mostly roleplay but some otherwise. We also hope to develop student accommodation above the shops, that we hope our students will feel happy to call home~ We also have plans to build a new visitor center and function hall of sorts!

Although not much building wise is planned for our campus island this year, we hope to work on the community side of things and begin to enable more activities such as teaching at our school!

A personal message

To each and every one of our students, I am sure that there will be many challenges ahead that the year will bring each of you as individuals, but I want you all to know that you are not alone. Kokoro and your Captain are here for each and every one of you, and we will face the challenges that the year brings together. I hope to help make sure that each and every one of you does not just survive, but thrives in 2022!

Get your sleep and do your exercises! No seriously, it will help make sure that you are better prepared to deal with whatever the world might throw at you, and make sure you are in a good state of mind not just to help yourself but those around you.

With that bit of realism out of the way, I do hope that all of you do have a great year, and I hope we will have as much fun in 2022 as we did in 2021! I really enjoyed this year. It was something special.

See you on the other side~

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