
The grand opening ceremony of "Smiling Base of the Nikko Road" was held today. Our women choir group was invited to perform to commemorate it. We kept standing while waiting for more than one hour under the burning sun and further more it took us one hour to continuously sing 13 songs + 3 additional ones.Among them were 4 songs composed by Mr.Tooru Funamura. This smiling Base was built in his commemoration to honor his great work. (He is partly from this town. ) It was so hot, I'm pretty sure the temperature might have gone up higher than 25℃.All our members were almost dying under such a sudden heat but we made it successfully. Good job! Unfortunately I had no chance to take a picture of our performance. Only general view of the Base and of our meeting afterward. Our three leaders, Mr.Shimoji, Mrs.Naoko and Miss Satomi were all brightening with delight. Thank you, Mr.Shimoji, for giving us such a precious experience!