Eduardo, Martin, Sam, Emir and Quique joined the Climbing Club this weekend. Lots of time spent on new challenges and tougher boulder problems.

The boys are focusing a lot more on not concentrating all of their strength through upper body but using thier legs more. Prioritising footwork and body positioning is key to finding their centre of balance, once they start putting these techniques in place their climbing level will sky rocket.

Keep your feet up Edu!

Push with your legs Martin!

Just hanging out with Sam

Started from the bottom now we’re here – Emir

Swinging from the top

Fancy footwork

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!