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Hi! New here! I had the privilege of meeting a few members of the student body this morning and I'd like to say thank you to them and that I hope to meet many more of you in the days to come. My name is Mika. I'm out on the left coast of the United States, so I live in actual SL time. That makes it real easy for me when something is scheduled in world!. Now, if you take a look at my profile in world don't let the rez date fool you. It may say that I'm 15 but you should subtract 10 of that as I took a long hiatus and just returned in October. I've fallen back in love with SL though and am hoping to find a warm community to become a part of. Ooooh, so, a bit more about me... I'm a bit awkward with others at first. I often don't know what to say with others when I first meet them, so if I'm kind of quiet or seem hesitant should we meet please know that once I begin to feel more comfortable and get to know just a few people I open up and often can't shut up. Mmmm... I think it can go without saying that I love anime. I wouldn't be here if I didn't, right? Rom-coms are my favorite. Toradora, Maid-sama, Wotakoi, to name a few. I'd have to say I'm more of a reader though. Light novels > manga > anime. I enjoy dabbling with a bit of writing as well, but I don't consider myself to be any good; just some fun. I have a new found love of cooking! So, you may hear me either fawning over a new dish or cursing myself for ever attempting it. Chinese, Japanese, and German are my chosen cuisines. Well, just brief introduction. I'm usually on for a bit weeknights and try to get on for about an hour before work on weekdays to explore a bit. I'm mostly on during the weekends. Sometimes I'll find myself on for an entire day if I lose myself. I hope to meet you all!

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~ -

A new ambient sound system has been built into the School HUD! Depending on where you are, and the time of the day you will hear different ambient sounds as you wander throughout our sim. Try having a wander! It is hoped that with these ambient sounds, it will help provide a sense of atmosphere, and also enhance a sense of space as they drown out distant sounds that would otherwise be heard in a vacuum. Comfortable Listening We hope that most people will enjoy the new sounds throughout the sim, but recognize that with listening devices such as closed back headphones ambient sounds can create a pressure within the cup that can result in discomfort depending on the individual. We have provided a set of commands that can be used to adjust the volume of ambience to a comfortable level for your listening, or mute if desired. Just type one of the following commands into the chat: /1 amb.high Set ambient volume to High /1 amb.med Set ambient volume to Medium /1 amb.low Set ambient volume to Low /1 amb.off Turn off ambient sounds By default, Ambient sound volume is set to Medium. The HUD will remember your preference.

They're here! After much work, Kokoro Academy for the first time now has male uniforms available to its students! Our male Uniform has some subtle details of their own that we are sure students will enjoy~ Buttons 心 is Kanji for Kokoro Our Gakurans have golden buttons with a custom design by Ni. Did you know it is a custom during your graduation ceremony to give the second button of your Gakuran to your sweetheart? It is considered a confession of love! Like our girl Uniform, the male uniform too contains two golden ropes to give a sense of duty. They are placed on the right hand arm - The sword arm - because we want our boys to know that one of the gifts of being a male is strength! Men have naturally stronger bodies and we want them to consider it their duty to use it for good! Make sure to train those muscles so that you can serve and protect the people you care the most about! Of course our Uniform would not be a Kokoro Uniform if it did not have our twin hearts somewhere. On the boys, we thought that it looked pretty stylish on the tails of the jacket! (The girls wear theirs on the back of their collar) Currently, we have the Uniform rigged to Kuroo and will be distributing it to all our existing students. We will be working on bringing it over to the Kemono w/ Male Chest over the coming weeks. That's all for now!