The whole Concha Annexe Boarding House wish you Happy Holidays.
We are closing the Boarding House for the Holidays and will be back on the 7th of January. We wish you a Happy New Year and a lot of love, joy and peace for the upcoming Year.
To those who celebrate Christmas & Hanukkah, we wish you a great celebration with family and friends.
To wrap up the end of semester 1, the whole Boarding moved to the Marriott Hotel in Geneva to take the traditional Winter Dinner.
Well done to our boys who behaved super well that night. And thanks to the CDL Boarding organisation with Ms. Lucélia at the top of it.
On the 12th of December, we commemorate L’Escalade.
In 1602, Geneva was coveted by the Savoyards. Charles-Emmanuel I intended to make Geneva his capital north of the Alps. Thus, he launched an attack on the night of 11-12 December with 2000 soldiers.
Armed with nothing more than courage and halberds, the citizens of Geneva, men and women alike, ran out of their houses to defend the city alongside the bourgeois militia and the city soldiers. They fought off the enemy using any means to hand. A number of stories recall the courage of la Mère Royaume who scalded one Savoyard with her pot of soup.
Since 1881, chocolate cauldrons decorated have been eaten at this time every year in honour of her bravery.
The tradition says that the youngest and the oldest have to smash the cauldron saying the sentence: “Ainsi périsent les ennemis de la République”.
Today is our first snow in Geneva but it is also the first time that our new student Diego sees Snow !!!
He was excited and impressed by the postcard image of our Boarding Life in Switzerland. Many more surprises are upcoming.
But for now, Let it snow !
Today, we held the Gingerbread House competition across all the houses at CDL.
Our house bet for an abstract, minimalist and bold design.
Yesterday was a busy day and the boys were very brave to attend our Léman studio to record a Christmas song.
We had loads of fun and the boys did pretty well.
Yesterday, all the houses were called for the Awards Ceremony.
There was a difficult decision to choose only one student for each category, but this time Jamil deserved the medal in both categories for very little.
Well done to everyone, we have had a wonderful semester.
Today, Taha, with eleven other CDL boarders, took part in the Escalade Running Race. This event is held each year in Geneva.
It celebrates an important event in our city’s history; the victory over the french invader in December 1602.
