This weekend we had Dmitry, Kirill and Mikhail taking on the advanced biking activity. This is only for the most elite riders who elect to go off-road and into the forest woods to do the biking trails.

One of our newest activities which is turning out to be very popular is our cooking activity.

Each weekend the students have the opportunity to learn how to cook some fine dining meals. This is done with our very talented chef Fred.

This week it was Chicken Curry, however, as you will see from the presentation it is of exquisite quality.

We had Dmitry, Luther, Spencer and Junqi taking part on Saturday.

Admir, Adam & Tensho braved the cooling temperatures and went out on the lake on Saturday.

This week in our Wellbeing Tutorial we decided to get out and get active! Following on from last week in which we discussed exercise and activity we used our time to go for a walk.

Our mission was 30 mins of walking to the local supermarket and back. Secondly, we also ventured into Coop to find something healthy that we had not tried before. The boys took this challenge on board.

It was a good opportunity to get some fresh air, go for a brisk walk, mingle and talk. In the supermarket, the boys eagerly found new items of a healthy variety which they had not purchased before.

Zihao, Ayam and Vansh whip-up their patisserie skills at a cookery class, taught by CdL`s very own chef.

 
On Saturday morning, the advance mountain bikers take off towards the local forest. They follow the tree lined footpath that runs next to the local stream and nearing its source somewhere amongst the forest. The pace of the biking was fast, and everybody was working hard to stick together. Once in the forest, it was time to find  the central path, it is large and heads in the direction of school, and most importantly in travels down hill!  At the bottom of the forest path when the treeline comes to an end and the bikers enter the morning sun, a small drinking spring is located by  the path to provide the thirsty rider with a cold mouthful of refreshing spring water. After giving the legs a couple of minutes to recharge, onward towards school, the final one kilometre, cutting through the back streets of Versoix.

Bought you say……. No ! I say

The finest cakes you will ever see, made by the hands of our very own Ayam. Yum Yum!

For my Discovery Day I went to Château D’oex at the Swiss Leadership Camp  with all IB1 students, on the 17th to the 18th of September, it took us 2 hours to get there by a tour bus. I shared a room with 4 other students.

Upon arrival, we were separated into 5 groups according to our advisory class. We all participated in an activity called “The Amazing Race”, where we competed against other groups to finish as many activities as possible, to get points in 4 hours. We were supposed to navigate through a forest with a map, our group had 3 advisers. I was in group 1, the first activity for our group was tightrope walking, it went smoothly. Next, we had to build a catapult with bamboo sticks and rubber bands, we were supposed to shoot balls with it and catch it from a distance with a bucket, I was the receiver for my group, it took a short time for us to finish this challenge.  After that, we had to cross a river with a zip-line, my whole lower body got wet, luckily, I took my shoes off for this activity. The last activity was building a big pyramid with 4 layers of smaller pyramids also made of bamboo sticks and rubber bands, it took our group 16 minutes to build the whole thing. My group won The Amazing Race because most of us tried. Later that night, we gathered in our groups to finish our science group 4 project, part of it was entertaining.

The next day, along with 19 other students, I went to Leysin for caving, we wore wet suits, helmets and a harness. The entrance of the cave was very tight, so we had to apply Vaseline to slide through. After going through the entrance, we attached our harnesses to a rope, and we were climbing in the dark cave. The whole activity was over in about an hour, we hiked down to get back on to the tour bus and headed to school. The whole Discovery Days experience was mostly positive.

By Luther

This week we started the annual House Competitions. These are events and challenges run throughout the year which pits Boarding Houses against each other in order to have an overall winner at the end of the year. Competitions include cooking, skiing, quizzes, talent shows and many more.
The first event was the Sports Competition in which we competed against the 14 other houses in a series of different mini-games

I am very proud to announce that Leman 1 won!!!!

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This month we had our inaugural summer Mountain Weekend. This was a fantastic opportunity for the whole Boarding Community to spend a weekend up in the mountains. Doing this at the start of the year allowed us all to have time to bond and get to know each other while doing group building activities and enjoying the amazing scenery.

This week in our Wellbeing time we focused on Exercise.

This gave us the opportunity to discuss in-depth what we considered exercise to be and what sort of activities that we consider are exercising.

We then discussed why exercising was important, what benefits we percieved from it and why it was necessary both for the body and the mind.

This was followed by a self-reflection on our own weekly routine. What form of exercise do we do each day, 2-3 times a week, or just once a week? We then thought about what we should do less of in order to give us the time to do more exercise. For example, 30 mins less of YouTube videos to allow us to go on a walk or play a game of ping-pong.