For today’s international dinner, it was the turn of New Zealand! 🙌🏻

The menu was tasty and varied and most importantly, the kids found it particularly enjoyable. The first dish was a Kumara salad with honey vinaigrette. It was then followed by a kiwi roasted lamb with potatoes. Last but not least, it was high time for the kids’ favourite part of the meal: the dessert! It is always nice to have something sweet after our meal, and in this case, they had the chance to enjoy a delicious kiwi pavlova and some red fruits.

All in all, a dinner to remember!

“Come on, Mr Tarun! We want to eat!”

Some of them even finished their plates some minutes after, impressive!

Look at those almost empty plates! They are definitely enjoying their dinner!

Today we had the privilege of celebrating Fanyang’s 16th birthday!

He had a lovely day, with balloons in the morning, a lovely early dinner with some of his close friends in afternoon, and a surprise cake with the Concha lads in the evening!

Some early morning wishes

A lovely dinner in Geneva!

We had the cherry cake for the first time, it was delicious!

As part of their routine, the Concha Boys cannot help but go out and do some sport together. However, the weather has not been ideal for outer activities this week, so the boys have headed to the Olympus basketball pitch to play some basketball matches together. Others preferred to go to the gym as well as take part in the May Fitness Challenge, in which every day a new sport challenge is presented and the boys have to compete against all the boarding community. At the end of the month, those who won the highest number of challenges will get a special prize!

Someone was knackered after a basketball match!

Flying Daniel

Almost scored it! 🤩

How long can you hold a “chair” position?

How many calf raises can you do in a row?

Arm Hang Endurance (this one was tough)

Another evening of reading goes by!

Most of us think weekends are the perfect time to get some rest after a busy week, but the Concha Boys have a different vision of them!

Not only do they sign up in the boarding activities offered – such as tennis, golf, cooking or cycling – but also go to Geneva for shopping or food in their favourite places. They also got the chance to do sleepovers in rooms (don’t worry, everything was tidied up) and make use of the Concha garden to play some football or basketball. There was also time for some study time on Sunday, in which the kids could catch up with finals and prepare everything for the coming week.

All in all, a busy and productive weekend ⚡️

On Saturday, Javier and Firdavs had dinner in a fancy restaurant in Versoix! 🍽️

Gianni was on the hunt for the perfect outfit 🔎

There’s always time to play some basketball for these two! 🏀

Before going out, Javier wanted to put his football skills to the test ⚽️

Zhengtai prepared some fish at the cooking class 🐟

Rafael Fanbo Nadal 🎾

As some of you might know, the kids will be cycling all around the Lake Geneva (Lac Léman in French) on the weekend of the 6th-8th June. After getting some induction sessions about this initiative, the Léman Journey training sessions have started and our Concha boys are working hard to reach the objective!

Today, it was their first day of training. They were taken around school and nearby areas, such as Mies and Tannay, where they could try different types of environment: road, forest, countryside, etc. Boarding staff such as Mr Stéphane, Mr Mike, Mr Jack, Mr Sergio, Ms Ana and Ms Cristina guided them through and helped them out when needed. They are preparing our kids accordingly and we can assure you they will nail it in June!

Some explanations of what was about to come before starting!

Look at all these beautiful bikes! 🚲

Firdavs was ready to give it all!

Come on, Mr Martin!

Fanbo got on the bike before anyone else. Someone wanted to go for a ride so badly!

Everything ready to leave?

We love seeing those happy faces

Almost there, guys!

It’s been a while Emir is passionate about DJing. Although he already proved he is talented enough at the Winter Ball, his skills are improving every single day as he practices quite a lot whenever he has some free time.

Since everyone in school he is pretty much into music and he is talented enough – and we are certain he will be even more talented in just a matter of time – he will be performing at the International Day on Friday May 23rd, where he will be playing Afrohouse with the help of Eduardo.

Stay tuned for more news about the Future #1 DJ Emir! 💪🏻

Someone is taking this seriously! 🤩

Do you think DJing is difficult? Come to Concha and Emir will teach you the basics!

As the kids go back to their weekly routines, they resume boarding activities they used to do when they were here. Although sometimes they complain a tiny bit about it, our twice-a-week Concha Reading Club is the perfect opportunity for them to relax and disconnect after a long day before going to sleep.

We join them, as we believe reading is a journey we can get inspiration from and this activity helps us learn more vocabulary in our language or any other language we are reading. Mr Sam was in charge of explaining the meanings of those words they did not know about, such as supper or rehearsal. One thing we love about this is when they passionately explain what they read. It is interesting to know what books they are keen on and how their tastes differ from one another.

The kids were taking final notes before Mr Sam started solving their doubts

There were many words Zhengtai wanted to note down!

Martin and Javier were hooked on their reading!

In August, three kids coming from different Chinese cities united pursuing a common passion: basketball!

Jiarui, Tim and Fanbo have been playing lots of basketball matches together throughout the year and during the holidays, the first thing they were thinking of doing when returning to the Boarding House was playing basketball with one another. As they have some social time every day, today, they took advantage of this time and went to the Olympus basketball court to play some friendly Basketball matches. Isn’t it incredible how sports can bring kids coming from different cities together and make them create everlasting friendship bonds? 💪🏻

Before starting another match

They are giving all they’ve got!

Another important piece of news: the May Fitness Challenge kicked off today! How will the Concha Boys perform? Stay tuned to find out!

We also took the opportunity to celebrate Martin (12th of April) and Joao’s (25th April) that we unfortunately missed as they were during the break!