Last Wednesday it was an important day for the kids: they got the boarding picture taken! 📸

Our Concha boys woke up earlier than usual for them to have enough time to get ready, put their suits on (yes, the key elements of the dress code were blazers) and have breakfast. They were lucky, as the picture was taken in our garden so they did not have to go far. They were arranged by height alongside other boarders and boarding staff by professional photographers. While they were waiting for everyone to be organised, they had time to chat, make jokes and spend some quality time together. Once everything was set, it was high time to get the picture taken, and after a long minute, it was over!

After this, they went back to the house to get changed quickly and go back to class. However, not everyone wanted to get changed as they preferred to go to school in their suits; it was a special day for them and they wanted their classmates to see how fancy they looked! Special mention to Firdavs here, Ms Manuella from Marketing told us he asked her for a couple of pictures…Someone loves the cameras! 🤩

In a couple of weeks, we will receive the picture and check how good our kids look in it. We are looking forward to sharing it!

Getting ready…

Look at these two partners in crime wearing their suits for school! 🙌🏻

Mr Manu and Mr Víctor also got dressed to impress!

After a few weeks of intense training for our talent show, this evening we returned to our regularly scheduled reading!

Incredible participation from our Concha Team to represent our house in the Climbing Cup.

This is the first Climbing Cup where the children have had a chance to earn points for the House Competition. We had a total of 16 students taking part from 11 Boarding Houses. For the Concha athletes from Grade 8 we had Firdavs and Martin, from Grade 9 we had Joāo and Fanyang.

The Team were giving it their all and climbed hard for 2 hours. After a long climbing sesion like that it was nice to sit down together and have a few snacks together while talking about different climbs and which muscles hurt!

Hello Mister!

Trying hard!

Amazing strength!

Don’t look down!

Sharing the same passion for watches, Kiké and Emir took a moment tonight to take care of their timepieces.
Mr. Stéphane, a watch enthusiast as well, brought his tools so the three of them could spend time together learning how to change a bracelet or a battery on their favorite pieces of jewelry.

Even though it may seem easy, the process actually requires a lot of patience and dexterity

We are very proud to share with you our talent show performance, for which we have rehearsed for several days and put in a lot of energy and time. We are very proud of our boys and the final result.

Today was our very own Mr. Sam’s birthday!

We surprised him this evening with a cake made specially by Fanyang and Jiarui! It was delicious.

Mr. Sam’s old friend Mr. Callum from Olympus joined us as well and helped distract him while we set up the surprise.

Gianni, Firdavs and Joao with their eyes on the prize

Fanyang and Jiarui’s delicious creation! Look how amazing it turned out!

Over the last three weeks, our talented Concha boys have been rehearsing hard to put together an amazing performance for the Boarding Talent Show!

Eduardo and Emir spearheaded an original choreography to go to the song Baby by Justin Bieber.

After plenty of nights (and days) spent rehearsing, we are so very proud of the boys (every single one of them!) to have the courage to get on stage in front of the entire Boarding community and have an absolute blast, all together.

Regardless of the final results, they will forever be winners in our eyes.

Post our final rehearsal and on the way to the Eiger Auditorium….POSITIONS!

It’s time to say goodbye to the weekend and the Concha boys want to squeeze as many activities as possible in just 10 hours!

In the morning, they went for an energy-boosting brunch at the Léman cafeteria right before going to their Sunday activities. This time they chose sporty activities like tennis and golf as well as brainy activities such as chess. Once their leisure time was over, it was high time to clean the rooms and make sure everything was ready for the new week. Mondays can be tough, but on the positive side, we only got two Mondays left until holidays! 🙌🏻

Daniel and Fanyang woke up early to watch their favourite TV show while making a delicious breakfast! 🥞

Who’s this celebrity? 😱

The Concha Boarding House being represented at the golf course! ⛳️

Fanbo chose tennis once again. Should we consider organising a tennis tournament? 🎾

Zhengtai is getting progressively better at Chess, well done! 🥳

Martin went for a walk and took breathtaking pictures like this one!

In the evening, Martin started teaching Mr Víctor how to play chess. In fact, he is such a good teacher! 🤩

It’s another weekend at the Concha Boarding House and the kids are keeping themselves busy! Weekends are the perfect opportunity for them to get out of the weekly routine and enjoy themselves a bit. As every weekend, they get to join activities involving physical activity or a bit of creativity. After these, they shower and go to Geneva to grab a bite and do shopping. But they can also find fun inside the house! Some of them decided to go to the supermarket here, in Versoix and cook in our kitchen. All in all, our kids had fun and strengthened their bonds!

Martin and Zhengtai are developing a passion for climbing! 🧗‍♂️

Fanbo and Ethan from Champs des Bois make a good cooking team! 👨🏻‍🍳

Speaking of cooking, these four stayed in the house and prepared crunchy spicy noodles snacks! 😋

These three are into boxing 🥊