The boys have all made it safely away from a snowy Geneva and will now be spending some well earned time at home. It’s just me and Frosty the snowman here now, and soon I will be leaving him in soul charge when I go to Chamonix to enjoy my own holidays!

I hope all the boys and their families have a delightful time over the next three weeks. Whatever you chose to celebrate, a family get-together is always reason for cheer!

Have a great time and I look forward to seeing everybody again (with the possible exception of Frosty) in 2013!

Jamie Robertson

We welcome  Mr Maluen, our new tutor and we are saying goodbye to Mr. Waters. We will miss him with his FIFA skills!

Today we went out for Pizza near our house, we enjoyed it and we hope we will be doing it again soon. Thank you Romolo for everything!

In the photo below we are near our X-Mas tree. We are looking forward to our amazingly good vacation! See you soon!

This weekend we had our Christmas dance in a nice hotel in Geneva, it was very interesting and funny. I liked the music,it was a great evening! We don’t have any photos yet, but we will put some on the blog soon.

I have been living in Champs de Bois for three weeks  now. It’s very big and comfortable and the guys are very friendly, its excellent!

Tonight was our awards ceremony to mark the end of the first marking period of the school year.

Huge congratulations are due to three of our house:

• Alexey Baryshev was given a medal for his eagerness to participate in as many extra curricular activities as he can squeeze around his studies.
• Mauro Yin was given a medal for his excellent attitude towards boarding life.
• Vladimir Rebrik was awarded the prize for the best academic performance in Champs des Bois.

I should also add that these are just three snippets of lots of great stuff the boys are achieving in Champs des Bois. I am constantly impressed by their ability to keep up with the busy social, sporting, artistic and of course academic schedules that are asked of them at CdL.

Well done boys – great job!

Today the first thing I heard in the morning was the sound of drops of rain hitting the trees. We are in the beginning of winter, so as you can see in the pictures the leaves are starting to fall from the trees. Fortunately in a couple of weeks it is going to snow, and I hope that Champ Des Bois will have a SNOWBALL FIGHT!

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This weekend we went to Disneyland in Paris, it was really fun to go there with my friends and we had a lot of fun there.

I really enjoyed the rides we went on.

We also have a new guy in the house who’s name is Akhmad, He loves to play football and he is really sporty.

I am really looking forward to playing football in our garden with him.

This evening, we had a great experience making some graffiti art for the Christmas dance. I had a lot of fun together with my friends.

Elisa from Meritas, Assem from Ferrari and Juliana from Meritas came along to introduce this activity to us. Thank you so much for the help. We were all really pleased with our decorations. We are looking forward to seeing our art and seeing you at the dance.

This is my new room-mate Sashka. I like him very much, because he is a good and funny person. He is very positive and he is always shining like a star. I’m really happy that he moved into my room. I think he will enjoy living in Champs de Bois because its a very positive house (just like him) with good guys living here. I am really happy that he moved into my room  !! 🙂 !!

Today we did pumpkins for Halloween. We carved pumpkins and made a face. It was good fun because we were working in our group.

The holidays are coming and the boys are all looking forward to heading home and abroad to see their friends and families.

So much so in fact that they thought they would send you all a message!!!