🛬Welcome back from your break!📚

Our students are back and they are ready to face the rest of the first semester at school.

Some of our our students joined the trip to Vietnam and Cambodia during the autumn break.

Victor enjoy the trip and he had the opportunity to learn new culinary skills.

They also helped the local communities helping the on the schools and orphanages.

🍁Happy October Break!🍂

It’s time for our students to take a break from their academic obligations, spend quality time with the families and recharge batteries.

Before going on holidays, we decided to have a pizza night.

Plenty of options for every taste.

And with this beautiful view of the lake, we wish you a wonderful break. See you soon!

🌊Adrenaline, tactics and good food. 🥙

Adrenaline took part on the busy schedule of our students. Martin and his colleagues went rafting and had an amazing experience.

Navid is progressing a lot on his climbing skills and he enjoys sharing this moments with his boarding colleagues.

In the meantime his room mate Meylis was quietly studying every movement of his adversary during the chess club.

Jeff took cooking lessons and prepared a delicious meal.

The Franconi’s boys have also culinary qualities. Navid prepared Tahchin, a dish from his homeland, which we had the pleasure to taste. Thanks Navid.

Al went on another sailing expedition. The wind was quite strong but the boys overcame the challenge.

At the end of the weekend the boys and our guests enjoyed a quiet afternoon playing board games.

I also had the chance to guide boarding students through the woods of Versoix.

🏔️🧗🏻‍♀️Mountain Weekend🚵🏻‍♀️🌲

This weekend we left to the mountains to enjoy the freshness of the altitude of Verbier. Our students had the chance to practice a variety of activities from Climbing to Mountain biking, hikes and many other activities.

Professional guides took us on a tour to the forest of the canton of Valais and showed us beautiful trails and explained us many interesting things of the area.

 

There are many more experiences to come and we are looking forward to sharing them with you.

📝🐴 Back in Business ♟️🍕

Our students are settling pretty well in their routines and they have also had the chance to enjoy different activities.

Al joined the Horse Riding group and enjoyed the time with the animals.

Jeff and his peers challenging each other in different board games at the house.

The rainy days gather up many colleagues of our students in our house. We played games, watched movies and had pizzas.

In the mean time, Meylis was going through more strategic challenges at the chess club.

We also had students preforming their SAT exams. Well done boys.

Relax & Ride.

It was a quiet weekend at Franconis Boarding House. Some of our students went to visit their families and the others stayed with us to relax.

Nadim & Karim enjoyed their Sunday afternoon at the Spa with their friends of Boarding.

Omar went with his family to ride and improve his snowboarding skills.

Celebrating Friendship.

Today we celebrated Friendship with the visit of Karim’s parents.

The evening before Valentine’s we enjoyed the visit of the family of Karim.

His mum shared with us the recipe of Karim’s favorite meal. Nadim took good note of the process.

A mix of Lebanese and Thai food was up on the table. It was delicious.

All the best for you Karim during the break period. We will be waiting for you!

Winter weekends.

A week before the break of February, our students enjoy their routines and help in and around campus.

Jules joined the Community Service squad and helped to clean around campus.

Jonathan hosted a “Feijoada” in the house with his friends from school. The traditional Brazilian dish was a delicatessen that I was lucky to try,

Nihad helped his friend Jamil from Concha Annexe with homework and projects of school.

Blue Skies For Our Skiers And Snowboarders.

The boys enjoyed another consecutive weekend on the slopes of Fiesch.

Karim, Jules and Omar shared their snaps from the mountain.

Omar was very happy with his progression on his second weekend ever on the board.

 

In the meantime Nadim and Jonathan stayed in campus preparing important academic tasks and trying new recipes at home.

 

We also invite you to have a look at the 2nd Edition of “Inside Boarding” the Newsletter made by our students. Don’t miss out. Here’s the link.