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Great drive with the 5 Iron

Dmitry and Amirreza had their endurance tested this weekend with a Saturday morning CrossFit session.

The Artwork featured in our previous blog posts has now been installed.

It brightens up our hallways, is unique, interesting and gives the boys some pride in their House.

My Day in Versoix

by Zen Sashida

I’ve always wanted to have a nice walk down the road and explore Versoix, but I never really had time to do so. However, today I had the perfect opportunity just to go outside, stretch, feel the air and explore with one of my closest friend Maxim, who used to be my roommate in grade 6. It was just fantastic hanging out with my best friend for the first time in a while as we now have different types of friends, so we don’t get to see and actually have conversations with each other very often. We first went down the road and explored the forest. In the forest, we sat on the bench and briefly talked about our life and shared what we usually do on the weekend. We then walked down to the lake where is was full of people sun bathing, as it was very hot yet not too bothering. It was just an excellent day and really proved to me that even without going to Geneva, Versoix is big enough to have fun, if we stay with our best friends. I am looking forward to having weekends like this again.

A Visit to the Morges Tulip Festival by Casper Ko

Found in the Park of Independence, Morges Tulip Festival is an event spanning 6 weeks, something that all can enjoy for it is free and easily accessible. Every Spring the festival can be found on the edge of Lake Geneva. It is a vibrant display of 120,000 tulips from 300 species of the beautiful flower.

We arrived in a parking lot to the West of the Park. From there we passed through a playground and a wide, shallow river with mallards and other waterfowl. Upon crossing the bridge we were granted our first sight of the Tulip Festival. Before us lay a vista of colors and scents that assails one’s nose. From the soaring evergreens to the main attraction;  the tulips of course! Its quite intriguing how diverse a genus of a plant, it can be. I came here with the conception of your typical red tulip, an iconic image that I got from the Dutch tourism industry. Instead I saw flowers of all colors and shapes. From complex arrays of pink, red and yellow to flowers of burgundy it is near impossible to captivate the medley of flora present. The Park’s location also adds to the atmosphere of the festival. When we look across the lake we are greeted with a view of the Swiss Alps. At this time of year the tallest peaks are still powdered with snow but not for much longer.

Something that wasn’t expected though. There was some sort of Turkish event. I failed to learn much more but it consisted of a choir of people singing in what I’ll assume is Turkish due to the strings of Turkish flags that were tied here and there across the area. There were many a food stands that sold things from brooches and jewelry to churros and kebabs.

I think that events like these really do bring communities together. The Tulip Festival resembles much of the Christmas Market In Montreal that I had the pleasure of visiting last year.

By Casper Ko

This weekend we had Swimming, Horse Riding, Tennis, Crossfit, Art Workshop, Golf, Book club, Stretching and the Tulip Festival.

Fernando helps synchronize choir practice .