A sports festival based on the concept of "connections and expansion"...
With more visitors than last year, we can already feel the "connections and expansion"...
We want the dots to become lines, which then become a surface, and walk together with Manabisha Yumenomori...
GM Masuko spoke at the opening ceremony...

At the annual event "Yumelympics", which has been held since Manabisha Yumenomori opened...
The children and parents of Yumenomori, as well as the guests and local people, were divided into teams and competed together...
The children's seriousness and the adults' seriousness intersected...
From the way our team called out to each other until they reached the finish line...
We could feel the "connections and expansion" as well as the "depth"...
The dots became lines, and then surfaces... No, even three-dimensional!
We want to weave the future of Gakusha Yumenomori together with everyone...

We want Yumenomori to be a place where people, communities, and bears can connect, expand, and deepen.

I felt a renewed love for Gakusha Yumenomori...

In the kindergarten events, we saw each child shining...

In the parent-child events, we could see parents shining even more than their children!

In fact, in preparation for the big day, the children have been working hard on the events...
At Sukusuku (kindergarten)...
They would fight over their favorite sea creature masks...
Even when they managed to get them, they would stop moving because they couldn't put them on properly...
No matter how many times they tried, the sea creature they wanted to be was taken first,
and they would cry and stop moving...
But that's how society and life are...
We designers who foster the foundations of survival skills...
We understand that feeling all too well...
We held back the urge to put out our hands and watched over the children, believing in them...
Over and over again...
Even when they fell, we didn't put out our hands right away...
Even when they fell and cried, we supported them as they got up on their own...
We all praised them for getting up on their own...

At the big day...

They responded with great enthusiasm when their names were called before the race...
Even when they ran into situations that were different from what they had expected,
we could see how much they had grown by changing their attitude and moving forward...
The children had already received a perfect score from the principal...

And to the parents who showed their true commitment as adults everywhere...
A big, big perfect score too!

Good job! Thank you very much...