Celebrating Friday nights in. Sam found the weather too cold this evening so we decided to watch a comedy film together in the common room.

A sofa all to himself.

Calm down time and having a little read with the Grade 8s. It is nice to see them in their own worlds and how their vocabulary is flourishing each time we run through the tricky words.

Top words of the evening:

Resignedly: (adverb) in a way that expresses giving in to the insistence of another or to circumstances beyond one’s control.

Busted: (adjective) in trouble; caught doing something bad or wrong.

Hyper: (adjective) overexcited; overstimulated.

Fanbo, Javi & Firdavs – Caught in the plot.

Jiarui found a quiet spot to himself.

Well done to our young ones for being great students. Our Head of Boarding Mr. Usher wanted to give a big thank you to the students for being great examples here at Collège du Léman. Our Concha representatives are Alex, Juze, Eduardo and Fanyang – good job boys and keep it up!

Congratulations!

Juze & Fanyang on stage.

Wednesday are always quite a busy day, with so much going on that it goes by in the blink of an eye!

For our international dinner, we enjoyed some delicious Chinese food!

Our dear Mr. Jack reunited with the lads!

Yet another round of spot the Roner!

Nice to see that Gianni’s evolved to a thumbs up!

Matthew and Vincent, livin’ la vida loca like usual

“Wait, wait! Daniel will be here in a sec, he’s just going for round 3!”

After our House Meeting, all the boys gathered round to see their rewards for being punctual and discuss some trading strategies.

Samwise hunting for rewards, no one is safe!

This evening some of our boys celebrated the Lunar New Year by going out and enjoying a meal together!

Some of our boys stayed home, but we celebrated with them here by ordering some delicious food of our own and sitting down to eat it together here in Concha!

This evening, our very own Daniel, courageous that he is, performed for us in the High School Musical Showcase!

Tonight we enjoyed another round of our Reading Club!

We had quite a few new words tonight, and the boys had a lot of fun coming up with examples of how the words would be used.

Many words were quite similar and context was important to define them, like whisper and muttered or astonished and perturbed.

Some words made it quite clear the tone of the chapter they were reading, like paranoia, bitterly, and fitful.

Others were more whimsical, like glitter, brandish, decorate and soapy.

And then there’s copperplate…which is just fun to say.

For some of our boys, the act of preparing dumplings and eating them together during the lead up to the Lunar New Year is a common practice that is supposed to bring prosperity, luck and success in the new year, and the amount increases the more dumplings you eat!

So together with the guidance of their parents, they prepared some traditional dumplings from scratch!

Fanbo working away, smiling at the thought of how delicious these are going to be

Jiarui laser focused

Fanyang after over 30 min of chopping away! Joao stepped in as relief for a moment

Look at how green these finely chopped green onions are!

Now for assembly, an arduous process that requires focus and some dexterous hands

A little flour toss to avoid sticking

We just love it when a plan comes together

Getting all our dumplings in a row

The delicious final product. The boys did such an incredible job for their time making these by themselves!

Today, the kids had the opportunity to go to Versoix’s Ice Rink with boys and girls from different boarding houses. ❄️

Some of them already knew how to do ice skating, however, there were others who hadn’t done it before or hadn’t practiced it that much. The truth is, some of them were not really sure about trying it out at first, as they were afraid they could fall and consequently, others were going to laugh. Nevertheless, the good thing is that everyone supported one another, and those who were more skilled did not hesitate to help those who needed a hand. In addition, la patinoire de Versoix counts on a small bar, where the kids could get some iced tea and hot chocolate after the one-hour-and-a-half ice skating session. ⛸️

All in all, a very bonding and enriching experience our Concha boys will remember with joy. Are they going to do the same next weekend? Stay tuned for more Concha updates! ✌🏻

Ready to rock the ice rink! ⛸️

Firdavs made some moves on the rink 🤩

Look at this crew! 😝

Jiarui tried it for the first time. Though hard at first, he loved it!

Daniel and Shaokun from Léman having a good time

We need a physical copy of this picture, it’s sooooo cool! 📸

Gianni was gradually gaining more confidence

Once he learnt the basic moves, Zhengtai was unstoppable! 🙌🏻

Fanyang was actually telling me off in this picture because I subconsciously called him Fanbo 😭 (by the way, look who’s in the back)

Adam and Alex helped Jiarui!