Today’s weather was incredibly warm, something that is not expected of the autumn month of September. Not even a cloud was seen in the skies today and the sun was let loose, making the temperature unbearably high. Good thing  that such days are not frequent enough for us to dislike them, because who knows, maybe this is the last sunny day this year?

Hello everybody from the new and improved Champs des Bois!!!

I am delighted to announce that everybody who has returned from Champs des Bois last year is back in the house again. Only Alibek and Akhmad are not back at CdL this year. If you are reading this guys, you are missed in the house already!

Not only are we delighted that the boarding management decided to let everybody stay for a second year, they have been good enough to do an incredible amount of work to the house while we have been enjoying our summer holidays. Here you can see the boys making good use of our new extended living room with dining table and babyfoot table. And what good is a dining table without delicious food to dine on? Well that shouldn’t be a problem any more either thanks to our fantastic new kitchen; brilliantly demonstrated by Andrey, Aslan and Egor below. On top of these additions, we have new showers, a new toilet, new tiling, new washing machines, the house has been painted throughout, the list goes on!

As I said, Akhmad and Alibek are no longer with us, but the renovations took up one bed space so we could only invite one lucky boarder into this lovely new house. The lucky winner was Giorgios, seen here playing Babyfoot with Mauro, Jia Hao and Mircea. He is already good friends with all of the boys in the house as he was in Concha boarding house last year so he has settled in very well. We all look forward to his company throughout the school year!

Remember to visit our blog regularly to see what the boys are up to – we will try to do at least one post each week. On Sunday the boys are all off to the bowling alley, check back soon to see who triumphed!!!

Wow, I can’t believe a year has passed already! Well done to all the boys in CdB this year, it has been great fun.

I wish every one of you all the very best when those exam results come through your letterbox.

I look forward to seeing you next year, whether you be back in CdB or move on to pastures new.

Most importantly – HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!!!

Today the weather was lovely, so we decided to relax a bit before the final exams and enjoy the swimming pool. It was really nice as there was a lot of people and a delicious barbecue made by Mr Usher. I am looking forward to swimming again and good luck to all my house mates with your exams!!!

Happy Birthday Akhmad, hope you don’t spend it just hanging around!

On Sunday we went to France to do some paintball. We all enjoyed being outside in the nice weather. My team won all 3 of our games, it was very exciting! Here are some photographs of us looking like cosmonauts in the clothes they gave us to wear!

When the weather is nice outside my friends and I like to go outside and play football. Me and Mircea, Aslan, Jia Hao, Akhmad and Alibek play the game called docky on the middle, Alexey, Vladimir and Andrey play hockey. Sometimes Mauro and I play frisbee. We only play outside when the weather is good so its not been that often recently! Today was a fantastic afternoon though. In the picture you can see us all enjoying the sunny weather, we hope there is more to come!

This weekend we went to the Vallée d’Abondance which is about an hour away from Geneva, it is a beautiful place.

On Saturday we went rafting, it was really  exciting and it was really good fun jumping in water from the rocks. After that we went cycling in the forest, it was muddy and difficult but we still had lots of fun. Also we went on the monkey bars there, I love to swing on them and hang upside-down! 

We stayed overnight in a nice hotel, had some nice food at dinner and in the evening we went to wander around in the town.

On sunday we went hiking, we were lucky because the weather really improved during our walk, it was beautiful there.

On our way home we had our lunch at Evian (where the water comes from) and free time in the city. After that we all had an ice-cream together.  

We had great fun on this weekend and we will always have lots of memories left from this trip.

This long weekend we went to the Europa Park. We went there by bus, it took about 4 hours from Versoix to Freiburg in Germany. We stayed in the hotel Bell Rock, it is a nice 4 star hotel. My roommates were two guys from Concha. We were living in a large, comfortable room. Every morning we went for the breakfast, then to the theme park. There were many interesting things to do, my favourite was the “Silver Star” roller-coaster. Every evening we were in the swimming pool. I really enjoyed this weekend, it was an amazing idea to visit Europa park! 

We had amazing trip to Chamonix yesterday.

We got the minibus to drive there, Mr Robertson was driving!

It took about an hour to get there and when we got there we got some tickets to go on the luges. It was really fun, and it was quite fast! And also it was raining really hard at the same time, I think this was an experience I will never forget.

After that we went to the small town, where we had tasty ice  cream and a nice stroll. We decided to eat in one of the traditional mountain town restaurants.

On the way back we saw a huge glacier and stopped next to a waterfall. It was impressive and really beautiful. Also we went to a lake where everyone had fun. I had a nice swim there, the others were playing football or frisbee. So we came back really happy and satisfied.