Today is the third day of the camp, so I'd like to introduce our camp location to you. It's the Hokkaido Youth Center Compass, located on a hill in Makomanai, about 20 minutes south of central Sapporo by car.

The building where the Tohoku Youth Orchestra practices, eats, and sleeps is decorated with flags and banners everywhere, as the staff there seem to be Rio Paralympians.

I found Hokkaido Ingredients on the magazine rack in the lobby.

Also on display are posters from the 1972 Sapporo Olympics. The emblem was designed by Kazumasa Nagai. The poster on the left was designed by Iwao Hosoya. On the right is Yusaku Kamekura, who designed the emblem and poster for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

The left and center are also designed by Yusaku Kamekura, and the right one is by Takashi Kono. There are a lot of big names here! They are all masterpieces in the world of Japanese graphic design. The large conference room at the end of this corridor is the practice venue.

Practice starts at 8am again today.

The person conducting today's practice was Manabu Takeda. He is a lecturer at the FTV Junior Orchestra in Fukushima. We reviewed the points taught by Toshio Yanagisawa, who returned home yesterday, from the fourth movement.

At the end of about three and a half hours of practice, Yuta Tomizawa, a university student from Iwaki City who plays the tuba, announced, "Today is Mr. Takeda's birthday." The band members performed "Happy Birthday to You." Mr. Takeda (who turned 38 today and is single and looking for a marriage partner) was embarrassed by the sudden celebration.

Well, after nearly 12 hours of rehearsing Mahler's Symphony No. 1, I realized that I hadn't experienced anything that was typical of Hokkaido, and that I was in Chiba. So, in the afternoon, it was finally time for recreation! The theme was to do something that was typical of Hokkaido. First, we went to Moere Numa Park, designed by Isamu Noguchi. There were about 50 young people scattered around the vast park, hungry for fun, so I borrowed a mamachari and was at the mercy of taking commemorative photos.

Moreover, after two days of playing music, many of the hardy climbers were itching to get some exercise, so they made it to the top of the hill. I'm not sure about my physical strength, so please forgive me for showing only those who made it to the top of the hill.

The obligatory commemorative photo!

Next, we moved to Sapporo Satoland, an agricultural experience exchange facility in Sapporo. It was a program similar to the Shisa-making experience program we had at the Miyakojima training camp last year. This is the raw butter making team.

They just kept shaking it like maracas until it hardened. Then, there were two teams that mixed it. First, there was the ice cream making experience team.

And the most popular is the fresh caramel making experience team.

After experiencing the sixth industry, everyone seemed to want to keep moving, so they went cycling in their own way. There were lots of smiles on their faces, which was the complete opposite of the tense atmosphere of the practice.

While we were relaxing, Iijima-san from the office, along with Kono-kun from Hokkaido University and other university members Tomizawa-kun, Onami-san, and Tsutsui-kun, came to return the large musical instruments we had borrowed from Hokkaido University. Thank you!

In the evening, we had the second night of the workshop to get to know the Tohoku Youth Orchestra better, following on from yesterday. The light heavyweight design pair representing Japan, Naeko Ito and Rikako Nagashima, appeared.

Today, while looking at the practice Instagram accounts uploaded by the members, Mr. Ito gave a critique, explanation, pointed out areas for improvement, and learned about effective information dissemination on SNS. After all, elementary school students were brainstorming ideas for good hashtags, so it seems that TYO's basic social communication skills have improved considerably. Please look forward to future information dissemination on our website.

And as a result of my personal posting on social media, I was contacted by Tanaka Hirokazu, who lives in Sapporo and found out about my business trip to Sapporo on Facebook. I was then able to meet the 111th Tanaka Hirokazu, "Sub-three Tanaka Hirokazu," for the first time in Susukino this evening!

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