Far too quickly, the autumn break is over but it’s wonderful to have all the boys back in Olympus for our journey through the rest of autumn well into the winter term!
Happy Holidays from Olympus
Happy Birthday Jinwoo!
Brownies and Black Outs
With all the time that comes with a day, it’s difficult to not only figure out how to use all of it, let alone how to use it well.
Over this Wellbeing Pillar of healthy mind healthy body, many of the students have been providing responses of their own to the dilemma that comes with what the right choices are in keeping a schedule of sleep that serves us best.
Iyowuna has chosen his preferred medium of art to respond to our meetings to create a personal project:
Above, Iyowuna has chosen to depict two male figures who contrast each other by the obvious choice of healthy sleeping habits. The one on the left can be seen spending time on his computer at night when he should be resting and can also be seen paying for it dearly as he is irritable and tired during the waking hours. The other, who spends his nights getting rest, it content and inspired when he is awake. A cautionary tale as well as an inspiring one.
Below, we have Jinwoo Jung’s sleep experiment of his own design where he tracked his energy related to how much sleep he got throughout the week. And we can clearly see the benefits of getting enough sleep during the academic week.
Sleep gives us enough energy the following day to pursue our passions to the fullest! And there’s no passion more rewarding or intense as culinary combat, in which we can witness Boris engaged in during the C.D.L bake-off.
Delicious! Though these brownies did not win Olyumpus the Bake-Off crown, they satisfied our hunger nonetheless. Thank you Boris!
And thank ‘you’ for keeping up with the newest goings-on at Olympus Boarding House.
Wishing you all the best this October 6th
Charity food collection for Afghanistan
♟️ Chess Boarding Champion 👑
Mr Jacob Wrapping up wellbeing pillar 1!
Weekend 24th – 25th
If there’s a theme I can think of to define this weekend, it would be memory.
So many of us, staff and students alike can get wrapped up in the busy week and sometimes perform the incredible feat of forgetting how to have fun. It happens to everyone. We get so busy with work that when someone tells us it’s time to relax, we hardly know what to do with ourselves.
Below, our boy Maximilian has all the enthusiasm to make it to the gym, but can be seen here doing what can only be watching an instructional video on the machine he is about to use. But working out and exercise are a good way of getting ones mind off the present moment in a productive way.
Others are a little more experienced with their pass-times and look to practise things they are already familiar with in order to relax. Below, Richard and David can be seen at the cooking club, producing cupcakes.
Despite some heavy rain, the greens were open for business, and Kirill, Boris and Azamat took to the driving range to find some solace in sending some balls down range.
And above, Nihad revived efforts from last year in cycling to Geneva and back, while taking us along for the ride this Sunday!
It can be difficult to let go of the momentum of the week. So sometimes it takes some effort to relax. A slight paradox, but the truth none the same. And we at Olympus are revitalised for another wonderful week on campus.
All the best from Olympus Boarding House