We hope you have all had a lovely Spring break.
With the spring buds opening on the trees and wild flowers blooming all across the lawn, Concha is looking quite colorful!
Keen observers will notice a certain something is open!
Joao, Eduardo, Henrique and Emir spent some time on Sunday afternoon with the amazing Ms. Rym in the Champs des Bois garden, helping her take apart some pallets, prune some trees, dig up some soil…and jumping on the trampoline!
Get those branches outta here Edo!
Joao cutting loose on some pallets
Henrique deep in the bushes
Another lovely evening of reading goes by.
Javier and Firdavs compete to see who is further in the Outsiders, Zhengtai explores the Secret Garden and Sam delves into the human anthropology of Sapiens.
Our dear Joao graced us with his presence this evening as he read the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and later, in our sharing session, talked about his opinions on some the books the other boys were reading.
Our words for this evening are Meaningful, Themselves, Sleeve, Dumbfounded and Menagerie.
Today we had the privilege of celebrating Fanbo’s 14th birthday!
The day started with a hallway full of balloons and ended with a belly full of cheesecake!
Kind of looks like it could be a painting from the Renaissance
Daniel, you absolute legend
Jiarui, Fanyang and Daniel helping me blow up balloons the night before Fanbo’s Birthday…we did our best to stay quiet, but The Giggles got us
The Lads, our for a celebratory dinner the night before. Looks like it could be an cover!
This bright Sunday afternoon Fanyang, Daniel and Juze spent some time out on the greens, working on their swing. While the wind worked against them, the sun shining down on them made any shot – no matter how curved it might be – a good one.
Looking gooood…
….and driving goooood
Juze shot so high he had to look for it
Looking like a movie star…
…driving like Tiger Woods
After a few weeks of intense training for our talent show, this evening we returned to our regularly scheduled reading!
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!
This evening, for our weekly international dinner, we all enjoyed some lovely soft shell tacos from Mexico! (Javi went back for three plates!)
Roner was here
These boys take dinner seriously
I remember reading the last book in a long series as a kid, and even though that last page would turn over … the book never really truly ended. That world lived on in my mind – growing, breathing and flourishing.
Another evening of reading with the boys flies by. Book 2 of the Mistborn Trilogy is on my agenda this evening.
Fanbo started a new book today, one that Adrian has read as well, so he had a lot to add while Fanbo talked about what he read.
Sam proceeds through the 48 Laws of Power, and today he learnt about Michael the 3rd, a Byzantine king as well as the lessons his life has to offer.
Zhengtai continues through his Sherlock Holmes anthology, Javier dives deeper into the Outsiders and Adrian just wrapped up Number The Stars, an incredibly touching book by Lois Lowry.
Some pretty fun words to say this evening (I know that seems odd, but try saying them out loud for yourself and maybe you’ll understand what I mean):
Encumbered, Totally, Condescending, Memorise, Although, Wept, Dreading and Tag-along.
