Our students are back after a well-deserved holiday, it’s time to tell us stories about their holidays and share our beautiful photos with the other members of Léman.
Some have gone travelling to a new country, Portugal, Italy or Spain have been some of the chosen ones, others have visited their families and some have discovered new places in Switzerland.
All options are good to recharge your energy 100% and to restart the course!
Our first break of the year has arrived. Time to relax and enjoy for a week before coming back, slightly refreshed for a push until Winter break.
Quite a lot to celebrate but quite a lot to prepare too so we wish everyone a wonderful time and we looking forward to seeing you all soon next week.
Enjoy your break.
Show day… for weeks Aryan, Justin and Albion have been rehearsing for the drama show.
It was nice to see them on stage. Albion and Justin brought to stage a poem while Aryan was part of the cast of “The Prophet”. The boys did great and it was even more interesting that the audience was invited to discuss with all the actors after their show to discuss ideas and ask questions about how they built their characters or how they felt on stage.
Well done to everyone and thank you for a nice evening 🙂
Another beautiful sunrise from the windows of Léman and once again accompanied by a message from Ayam, quite inspiring, no doubt a good attitude in life will always help us.
Thank you Ayam.
Today was a special day at Léman 2, a day that we have had on the CDL calendar for 5 years now, that can only mean one thing, Kotaro’s birthday.
Without a doubt, Kotaro is a friendly, kind, joking, committed person who likes to help others and now he is 18 years old!
At Léman 2 we have only good words to say about you and in this, your last year, we hope you enjoy yourself as much as we enjoyed you.
The boys also wanted to congratulate Kotaro on his birthday, although it ended up being especially chocolatey!
Luckily the cake survived (Kotaro too) and we were all able to eat it together, a bit of sweetness to say goodbye to the week and start the last week before the October break.
Solidarity activity at Lake Geneva on the beach of Versoix, today some of our students from Léman 2 took part in this beautiful initiative.
A great nature lover, our new friend Olivier, gave us a talk about the fauna and flora of the lake and the consequences that pollution is having on it. Afterwards we cleaned the beach of Versoix, a total of more than 2 kilos of rubbish was removed.
Good work by all present!
Here is also Mateus’ thoughts on today’s activity, bravo!
“Today we went to the biggest freshwater lake in all center Europe (Lake Geneva), our main goal was to do a simply clean parts of a small coast at the center of Versoix, our group had around 20 students from collège du Léman and we realised how polluted Lake Geneva was even before we started cleaning
After 2 hours of cleaning, our group came back to the school with a different perspective of how we should treat the environment and how simple actions like we just did could make a big difference in things as important as the Lake Geneva is to us and to the citizens of France and Switzerland”
Mateus, participant in the activity and member of Léman 2
What to do on a rainy weekend?
Meet Ayam the Chef, proudly showing his Pizza Calzone done in Cooking Club on Saturday
Sunday was the bake-off. Cake was at the menu. Ayam the chef, seconded by his apprentice Junior, the chef-to-be, worked on a marble cake to be presented for the House Competition.
The visual result is great… I am not telling you about the taste because you might want to try it too 🙂
Great job Ayam!:)
We have opened our session with some minutes of meditation… We dimmed the lights, played some relaxing music and let ourselves go with the chilling moment.
A few minutes can be enough to create a soothing effect. Mark and Rakann voice how this tiny fraction of time made them feel relaxed and away for tension, problems, anxiety.
It was a great warmer to the topic of this meeting: “How hobbies help releasing stress.”
Everyone has a hobby and therefore a way of putting away our problems, at least for a moment.
Junior is keen on reading – he enjoys it, he acknowledges the intellectual benefits of it and he feels relaxed while reading.
Mark is keen on sports and music – when he plays his mind is away, thinking of the melody and the harmonies.
Misha plays online… which is ok, as long as within reasonable limits. He gets a sense of evasion which helps him cope with the real world.
During this Pillar we have tried to entice the boys to find ways of improving their physical and mental wellbeing, not just with sports but with any other way they feel they benefit of an improvement in their quality of living.
Research shows that people with hobbies are less likely to suffer from stress, low mood, and depression. Activities that get you out and about can make you feel happier and more relaxed. Group activities like team sports can improve your communication skills and relationships with others.
And these are things we will try to keep pushing throughout the school year.
This weekend, our student Justin took part in the cooking workshop. Besides having a good time he learned that too much sugar is sometimes not good for cakes.
We will keep you posted on our culinary progress.
Here is the crew that went to do some time of Community Service in the woods today, picking up some rubbish and making a good use of their Sunday afternoon to the benefit of the whole local community.
Well done to all.