Happy B-day KAROLINA, we wish you all the best!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OYIN, WE HOPE YOU HAD A GREAT YEAR AND WE WISH YOU THE BEST IN THE FUTURE!!!

READY…3-2-1  GO!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NATALIA, HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!!!

Some of our Gr12 Students who are leaving this year.  We are going to miss them, but now we wish them the best in the exams!

Sunday was a nice day and we went to see the Tulips in Morges 🙂

Very colorful!

Dans la rue  … on trouve…

Enjoy the holidays!

The annual chocolate festival (Festichoc) in Versoix, is a very popular and friendly event for chocolate lovers. Chocolatiers from Genève, Valais, and nearby communities in the Lac Léman region exhibit and sell top chocolate at the Versoix festival.

The girls walked there this weekend to see it and of course, to eat some chocolate 😉

-Fotos by Esther

Cold days in Switzerland, Geneva, Versoix, College du Leman… MIES 

An arctic weather system is bringing Switzerland’s coldest winter, and also the famous bise wind is expected to blow too. This will make the temperature on some parts of Geneva feel like -10 to -15, and deliver the wind’s characteristic ice sculptures, like the picture.

“The Bise is a cold, dry wind in Switzerland which blows through the Swiss Plateau from the northeast to the southwest.”

– I wanted to share it as this is general culture and a scientific evolution.

Maria Beregova

Our ski weekends in Crans Montana were extremely fun. Despite the bad weather on  the first weekend, we enjoyed fresh powder. This picture was from the second weekend, which was sunnier. My favorite part of skiing is relaxing in the middle of the mountains, with a warm drink to rest. The view is amazing there!

Natalia Posada

This weekend, all of the boarding students went up to Crans Montana for a ski weekend. We skied, snowboarded, ice-skated and  took party in many fun activities. During the evening we had free time and got to enjoy the local restaurants. There was a lot of snow which meant skiing was canceled on Sunday, however we all had a great time and we are looking forward to return to Crans-Montana next weekend.

Karolina Sikorska

Bye Bye School and Welcome Crans- Montana.

We will have fun and enjoy the snow for the weekend 🙂

How we cook together… salad ready? rice?

Enjoying the dinner… mmm love this chicken 🙂

We wish you all the best girls!  happy holidays!

This Tuesday during the award ceremony Mies proudly brought back three awards! Congratulations Natalia on your extracurricular and academic awards and Oyin on your boarding life award. Keep up the good work and good luck for MP2!!

-Karolina Sikorska

Wer ist Sankt Nikolaus? – Who is Saint Nicholas?

The Historic, Real St. Nicholas
Across the German-speaking region of Europe there are many kinds of Santa Clauses with many different names. Despite their many names, they are all basically the same mythic character. But few of them have anything to do with the real Saint Nicholas (Sankt Nikolausor der Heilige Nikolaus), who was probably born around A.D. 245 in the port city of Patara in what we now call Turkey. Very little solid historical evidence exists for the man who later became the Bishop of Myra and the patron saint of children, sailors, students, teachers, and merchants. He is credited with several miracles and his feast day is December 6, which is the main reason he is connected with Christmas. In Austria, parts of Germany, and Switzerland, der Heilige Nikolaus (or Pelznickel) brings his gifts for children on Nikolaustag, Dec. 6, not Dec. 25. Nowadays, St. Nicholas (“Saint Nick”) through Sinterklaas.

In our House we also have a SECRET SANTA who leaves little presents in the socks 🙂

Dear ISABELLA we wish you a nice day and all the best this year at Cdl.

Weekend in Berlin:

We went to Berlin and visited the Memorial to the Murdered Jews,  is a memorial for the victims in the holocaust. There are 2,700 concrete slabs organized in rows. It was created by Eisenman in 1997 and he wanted to represent an illusion of instability.

Is a beautiful place in the center of the city who reminds you that we must know what had happened in the past to do not do it again. Everyone can see it and it has a museum that tells you the history of the holocaust.

Isabella Lopez

You cant make everyone happy unless you have a set of choice for your dessert menu. Want some dessert? It is always an option.

We wish all the best and a great Birthday. X X

WE LOVE IT! 

-Karolina Sikorska-

QUE PADRE = HOW FUN

Señoritas enjoying a nice meal at CDL International Dinner on Tuesdays.

Natalia:

-Literal, estaba deli!  (it was delicious)

Isabella:

– Yes, so tasty. I think “el señor” behind us loves it.

We made a pumpkin for halloween. We had the idea of creating a pumpkin that represented our house with all of our rooms but we also put scary effects. It was a really good activity and this halloween was really fun and exciting. This pumpkin will also be apart of the house competition and we hope to win!!!

Oyin.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus

Why Autumn and Fall?

Before it was autumn and fall, it was harvest. While the modern names of winter and summer have been around for more than 1,000 years, the names of fall and spring are more recent—and less constant. This is partly because the two seasons were long viewed as secondary to summer and winter

Both spring and autumn used to go by different names. In the 12^th and 13^thcenturies, spring was called lent or lenten, while fall was called harvest. In the 14^th century things got a little chaotic. Lenten disappeared around the beginning of the 1300s, and the later lent similarly vanished only a few decades later. (It survives, of course, as the name for a religious observance.) By the end of the 14^th century there was no firm word for springtime: People referred to it as part of summer, they used Latin (ver) or French (primetemps), or they just made up new phrases. Harvest as a word to mean not just “a time of reaping” but also, even for city folk, “the third season of the year” lasted longer. But it was joined by autumn—a word borrowed from the French—by the 16^th century.

They each initially appeared in the 16^th century as spring of the leaf and fall of the leaf.

It’s a bit of a mystery why the superfluous autumn persists while analogous words like primetemps and ver have fallen out of use, but it may have something to do with the Atlantic Ocean. The rise of autumn and the appearance of fall happened around the same time as the British arrival on the American continent, and it’s there that the latter really caught on.

Happy Halloween from all the Mies girls! Today we did our makeup and went to dinner full of Halloween spirit 🙂

-Karolina Sikorska

Nice day sailing in a Catamaran,

A catamaran (from Tamil kattu “to tie” and maram “wood, tree”) is a type of boat or ship consisting of two hulls joined by a frame. Catamarans can be sail or engine powered. The catamaran was the invention of the paravas, a fishing community on the Southern coast of Tamil Nadu, India.

Catamarans are a relatively recent design of boat for both leisure and sport sailing, although they have been used for millennia in Oceania.

Tea – Brownie – Chat.

It’s always a pleasure to talk, to share different points of view about the School and to give some “shopping list” to the House Rep.  or new ideas for activities. Welcome to our House Assembly! Bienvenue au réunion de l’internat!

Well done girls, that is teamwork and today you have showed it.

Movie time in Ecureuil house with our friends.

Last Friday Natalia and i went to Geneva with our friends, we got out of the train and took a walk, when we got on the other side of the lake we stayed on a coffee shop and we ate some cake, then we got on the spinning wheel and saw all the city from the top. after that we took another walk and sat on a restaurant name “alma” and we like it very much, we ate empanadas and guacamole. then we went back to the train station and came back home.

by: Isabella Lopez

“If you look in the credits, there is NO OTHER STUNT PILOT IN IT. IT IS JUST TOM.” Doug Liman.  The movie is based on real life of Barry Seal, cast by Tom Cruise. He was a TWA pilot who later was involved with drug smuggle in late 1970s.

He said:” something … happened to me. It really did. ”

Thankfully, “Top of your class in Civil Air Control. A pilot like you shouldnt be flying buses.Barry, you should be serving your country.”

“You are CIA?” …. “I was working for the CIA”

On Sunday we went to a small, medieval French village on the other side of the lake. We went there by speed boat and returned by the ferry to Nyon. We explored the botanical gardens, ate crepes in a local creperie and admired the beautiful village.

—-Karolina Sikorska

All about MiEs means a lot to us. It is not a selfie sentence because it is about the world, all the people we found in our path through the spiral. The spiral (without an ending) is a metaphor about life and how we meet in Cdl, we came from different countries and for a moment in our life we rise together in Switzerland, in Mies our Boarding House. During this time we share values, and with experience we learn more. We are proud of our house and therefore it is All about MiEs!

We went to Chamonix on Thursday, the girls in my house and in the other houses had a blast. It was a once in a lifetime chance to see real glaciers. I felt like i was in a movie. Would love to do it again. By OYIN OJO

VILLA MIES ready to Rock! New girls, different nationalities and all amazing students. We look forward for this new school year 2017/2018 🙂

01.08 pm we took the train to Geneva, it was our second day out. Our Prefect, Esther from  China, had shown us the way the previous day. Esther knows the city because she has been at College du Leman for 4 years. It was a rainy day and we headed to an Italian restaurant. Everything was very tasty and we enjoyed the evening despite the bad weather. In this picture you can see Isasbella, from Mies, with the girls from the Ecureuil Boarding House. We walked around the city until our feet hurt! Geneva, as always, was very exciting, colorful and refreshing. To be continued…  

NATALIA POSADA

Thank you, girls, for coming to our House and spend a little bit of time with us before you all graduate at the end of this month. We will miss all of you! 🙂

Thank you to the girls in MEGARD for coming to our House and for spending a little bit of time with us. We had all fun recording for the upcoming TALENT SHOW. 🙂

Collège du Léman is coming to Brazil- Mr. Justin Usher, Director of Boarding will be visiting Brasilia, Fortaleza, Foz de Iguaçu and Sao Paulo in the next 2 weeks.

 Brasilia  19-21 March

Fortaleza 22-24 March

Sao Paulo 25 March

Foz de Iguaçu 26- 27 March

Sao Paulo 28- 31 March

 Please contact justin.usher@cdl.ch . We’re looking forward to seeing you there!

DEFINITION:

AMAZING DAY FOR ICE SKATING 🙂

Rabi ready to ski, enjoy!

Heloisa

Rabbi

WELL DONE GIRLS!

We’ve got Respect, Internationalism and now Spirit

What means spirit for us?

SPIRIT

1. The non-physical part of a person which is the seat of emotions and character; the soul.

   “we seek a harmony between body and spirit”

   synonyms:

   soul, psyche, inner self, inner being, essential being.

2. The prevailing or typical quality, mood, or attitude of a person, group, or period of time.

   “I hope the team will build on this spirit of confidence”

   synonyms:

   prevailing tendency, motivating force, animating principle, dominating characteristic.

    

Save the date! On October 21st, it will take place the 1st Parent/Teacher Meetings. See you all there! 🙂

DEFINITION OF INTERNATIONALISM

The principle of cooperation among nations, for the promotion of theircommon good, sometimes as contrasted with nationalism, or devotionto the interests of a particular nation.

In our house we think we know the meaning but sometimes we struggling a bit  and everyone has to work in it all the time. No always is easy but this is the reason we are learning from others.

This is the first word from RISE, we will tell you soon the next one 😉

On Thursday evening in the event of the week Rabbi played the piano. It was wonderful.

Two of our girls, Rafaella and Heloisa, went to Annecy yesterday to spend the day and visit a new and beautiful town. Here are some pics from their trip… keep exploring!

“Enjoy the great opportunity to be part of these amazing trips: Switzerland Watchmaking Experience, Fuerteventura Surf Camp and Costa Rica. Sign up to any of these before 30^th September please. Email: leticia.devega-dublan@cdl.ch “

Last week, we had our Annual Dinner to welcome all the new students into our Boarding Community. Here are three new girls from our House.

Heloisa, Rafaella and Rabby.

Welcome ladies! Hope you have a wonderful year in our House. 🙂