Dear all,

As part of their wellbeing pillar 2, Victoria and Gabriela decided to write their own articles about diversity for this blog !

Victoria listened to a podcast and wrote a reflection about it.

Gabriela decided to write about diversity and inclusion, and what it means here, in the CDL community.

Congratulations, girls, and thank you !

Dear all,

Another great week-end in CDL ! We even had snow on Friday 🙂

On Friday, we participated in the “Light for hope” action, to pay tribute to the ones who lost their lives in the Beirut explosion on August 4th.

Among other activities, we had: bootcamp, yoga, photography, tennis, biking, beauty club, story club, chess club…

Mila in the bootcamp !

We have invited 3 boys from the Concha house to join us for our Pizza party on Saturday evening. It was lovely !

Dear all,

Here are some of the wellbeing projects proposed by Amalia and Olga K. We also had presentations from Sophie, Betty, Alina, Emilia, Valentina, and Wakana, and Noor & Dalia decorated the house with flags they have drawn to represent all the nationalities in VDL !

Poster by Amalia

Poster and reflection of an article made by Olga K

Dear all,

Yesterday was our weekly house assembly. We discussed non-violent communication thanks to a video made by Miss Jody, our boarding counsellor. Lisa and Sophie showed us a video about bullying called “Why I bully you” – explaining what’s in a bully’s mind. As part of their wellbeing project. Emilia, Valentina and Wakana created a Kahoot quizz competition about diversity in the house. The competition was funny and we laughed a lot !

Dear all,

Christmas is here and we are ready to celebrate! The house has been decorated by our girls and we have a beautiful environment. We are feeling jolly and the Christmas spirit is felt everywhere on campus.

Dear all,

During this week we are participating in the Partage, in collaboration with Geneva’s food bank. Last weekend some of our girls volunteered to collect products in the supermarket from the customers. We are very proud of the work they did! During this week in the School, we are collecting several boxes with the idea of fighting against hunger and food waste. Well done!

Dear all,

Tonight was thanksgiving dinner ! The dining hall committee members decorated the dining hall with our residential house parent, Lucélia. We ate stuffed turkey with gravy, mashed potatoes, broccolis, corn, cookies and an apple pie. It was delicious and it was so pleasant to be all houses together. We are thankful to each and every one of the student and staff who attended this special evening !

Dear all,

As every Wednesday, we had our house meeting. This time, Betty and Alina, as part of their Wellbeing project, made a presentation against bullying. They worked hard and it was very informative. Congrats, girls !

We also drew names for the Secret Santa, because Christmas is fast approaching ! We watched the MADS video made by our students from the Make a Difference Society. We mentioned the Ski weekends for 2021 and the upcoming Thanksgiving dinner.

Ladies and gentlemen,

Today was a special day. Today was… the bake-off competition !

Our judges, Mr Usher, Mme Salamin and Mme Nord had to taste cakes. Each house had to bake their own cake. For now, we do not know the winner, because all cakes were very nice !

Our girl, Muslima, made beautiful pavlovas ! Yummy !!

Muslima made these ! Congratulations, Muslima !!

The cake from Concha, the primary boarding house !

Léman 1’s snowmen

Mr Usher with all the cakes.

Dear all,

We had a lovely week-end.

Some girls did photography…

Gabriela during the photography workshop

Others went horse riding…

Some went biking, playing tennis or badminton, and some decided to take some time to wrap gift boxes for children in Eastern Europe !

What is this about ? the CDL community decided to fill, wrap and send around 70 gift boxes to children in need in Eastern Europe, to make sure these children will have a gift for Christmas. We are so proud of everyone who took part in this lovely project.