The light were off, the fog was at each conner and strange sound could be heard from the bushes…. We thought it would be the perfect moment to go and get some candies from the scared neighbours 😬😰🙀😧

You can see that we tried our best to look like our favorite character and give our best to get as much candies as we could carry.

Note: Candies shoud be eaten with moderation as they are bad for teeth 😉

Today on this very special day we gave the opportunity to each kid to express his craeativity. The four boys, that stayed with us for the weekend, got a little pumpkin that they could designed as they wished. But to avoid any “design incidents” during the process, we had a little drawing so they could be sure of what they wanted as a final result.
After a democratical vote 🗳 between all the residents of Champs des Bois, we choosed Zhiyu’s pumpkin design (the one on the left) as the most scary one 👻.
But as a team we decided to represent all four of our pumpkins to the boarding competition, as a sign of the RISE values: Respect, Internationalism, Team Spirit and Excellence, and it was also a reference to our Rise statue on the Campus. 😉

Smiles 😃, Positive vibes 🥰 and Creativity 👩‍🎨👩‍🎨 helped us to enjoy this moment and spend a nice afternoon all together.

On this sunny autumn day, we went to Vevey, a very calm and neat town near the Léman Lake, where Sir Charles Chaplin (aka Charlie Chaplin or Charlot) choose to move with his familly many years ago.
We could visit his sumptuous villa that was transformed in to a museum and a large than life cinema studio.
Even if most of the kids were to young to know Charlie Chaplin or even his movies, they could discover some of his most iconic artworks like Modern Times, the Dictator or the Kid.

Nicholas had his birthday 🎂 just before the October break, but unfortunately he couldn’t celebrate it with friends. We finally could catch up with all his friend and go to have a very fun and sweet time at the Jump Spot in Lausanne.

Even if the olympics games already finished, our kids are getting a highly professional and intense training for the next one.

After his woodcraft experience, Valerii took a heavy ball to train his pass skills ⚽️.

As soon as Mikaella and Firdavs finished to ride their Horse 🐎, they didn’t waste any minute and immediately started to practice loops in Basketball 🏀 .

Zhiyu and Nicholas have been practicing ping-pong 🏓 for weeks now. They are more than ready to play single and double matches agains older students.

Matvei and Nicholas are the first back, they arrived from their fantastic trip to Portugal. Here’s a few pics of the lovely Surf Camp!

It feels like summer ended only yesterday and here we are already at the October Break !!!  After a very energetic start of the year, we arrived at the mid-term and deserve a nice break, so we can take a moment to enjoy the view and see all those beautiful green leaves from our garden turn orange and yellow.
We will be back next week fresh and full energy.

We all wish a great October break, boys and girls from Champs des Bois

Today we celebrate Nicholas’ 10th Birthday !!!

This afternoon, after school, he shared a nice chocolate cake with all his house mates. A nice sweet moment before flying away to Portugal for the Surf Camp for the October Break.
As a big LEGO fan, he received 2 brand new Ninjago sets and he showed all his lego skills to build it in the blink of an eye.

We wish him to have an amazing break and a nice Surf Camp.

We had a massive amount of fun climbing and zipping from tree to tree this Sunday! Well done to everyone, it took some real physical effort on some of the obstacles and also was pretty high up off the ground!