While under both the rain and sun, we enjoyed a lovely dinner together here at home.

For this evenings International Dinner we enjoyed some delicious food from Lebanon!

As all of the Franconis boys will be graduating this year,tonight was their last Boarding Assembly!

Looking good under the sun on their way to campus.

Boy band vibes.

Having all six of them in the same photo! A rare occurence.

A lovely rendition of Habanera to start the assembly off.

Jules and Jeff from Leman presenting France! (Behind the scenes look: they argued for about an hour about which characteristics defined the Frenhe)

It has been lovely having the boys back this week, well rested and refreshed.

The weather has been quite unpredictable, but nonetheless, Spring is definitely in full swing.

Looking forward to seeing you after the break!

Tarun & Xavier

While this greeting is a little late (Nowruz was on Monday evening), we celebrated Nowruz with our community of students this evening by enjoying Irani food as our cuisine of choice for tonights International Dinner!

As we continue with Pillar 4, this evening in our House Assembly, we discussed Scams, Security and Identity Theft.

Our Advocate, Nadim, led us through a Kahoot quiz that had us answer the following questions:

• What is the strongest password?
• ______ are messages that try to trick you into providing sensitive information
• When shopping online, which payment option is generally the safest?
• Facebook can freely use your photos if you do not decline this in your privacy settings- true or false
• What does “Accept all cookies” mean?
• What is catfishing?
• What is the best way to know if a website is secure?
• How can you be found online?

Nadim wondering who answered “a lovely snack” to the questions about cookies.

The Kahoot was both fun (the Boys can get quite competitive) and informative, and went a long way to promote our understanding of how to keep our data secure and how to accurately identify threats to that security.

In our House Assembly this evening, we kicked off our 4th Wellbeing Pillar – Online Safety!

Nadim is our advocate for this months pillar and led us through a quiz that asked us the following questions related to Online Life vs Real Life:

• How many hours per day do you spend on your phone?
• Which social media do you have? 
• Thinking of your followers – do you know them all?
  
• On a normal day, do you speak more with friends in person, or via your phone?
• Do you use your phone in the last 30 minutes before sleeping?
  
• From what age do you think a young person should be allowed on Instagram / TikTok / Snapchat?
  
• Do you think people only show a ‘good side’ of life on social media?
  
• Have you ever experienced something negative online? 
• Are we conscious of how much time we spend on our phones – do we spend an equal amount of time living offline?

On this lovely Sunday afternoon, the Franconis boys headed over to the Servette Ice Rink to do a little skating. We went along with all of the other outside villas!

Jonathan braving the ice after a loooong time.

Karim enjoying the tumble and spray from the sidelines.

Nihad getting some tips from the LY7 ladies

Omar, our resident speed skater, going too fast for the camera to get a clear photo.

Nadim & Omar, basking on the ice.

Today, the very first day of March, our entire population of Boarding students had the lovely opportunity to come together as a community.

On our way over (after a quick wrestling match between our two Maturite boys of course)

On time and taking this Assembly super seriously.

Rei, one of our prefects, doing an incredible job singing Skyfall with Gabriel accompanying her on the piano.

Nadim, Karim and Gia on stage about to do a cultural presentation on Lebanon.

Nadim showing the crowd exactly where Lebanon is on the map.

Nadim presenting his town, Ain Dara.

Karim presenting his town, Jezzine.