This weekend, the boys built a gingerbread house. The idea was to make a replica of our house, Leman. Judge for yourselves, but it looks great and has the bearing of many of the boys. Let’s hope we win! Let’s go Leman!

Today, 3rd of December, is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities and advocates have suggested an initiative. The other day students had to send in their suggestions to improve the houses, now they have to post the suggestions they gave around the house. This way they are all aware of the barriers that people with disabilities can encounter in their daily routine.

In this cold weekend that we have had in CDL there have been activities where the boys of Leman have participated. As always we have some of them who have continued to improve their tennis or climbing or horse riding or woodwork skills. They have also continued to participate in the history and chess clubs. As we have entered December and it will soon be Christmas, this weekend it was time to visit the Christmas market in Montreux, one of the most wonderful in Europe.

This week from the advocates of the second pillar came an initiative related to people with disabilities. The boys from Leman had to think how to improve the house for a disabled partner. They have come up with ideas for people with reduced mobility, visual and hearing impairment, etc.

We are still looking for suggestions to make the boarding school more inclusive!

On Wednesday after dinner the first Christmas concert of the boarding school took place. Some of the pupils of the boarding school, although we could call them artists after what they did, played different instruments and sang Christmas songs. There were instrumental moments, sung songs accompanied by the guitar or the piano. We had the wonderful opportunity to see Adi, one of our Leman boys, playing the guitar to the song Snowman by Sia with a student from another house.

This afternoon, some of our boys have performed some plays where they conveyed messages related to current issues such as technology or the environment. Apart from making it very entertaining and making us enjoy it. It was wonderful how they performed on stage. It seems that we have some good actors among the Leman students.

This weekend, like every other weekend, we had activities such as tennis, swimming, climbing, horse riding and the running and history clubs. As an excursion, on Sunday they went to the Grand Parc d’Andilly – Christmas Park. Here they were able to stroll around the stalls with Christmas sweets, drinks and Christmas food or activities inspired by Christmas. They had a lot of fun and the decorations for this special time of the year are already visible.

Yesterday evening we started with the second Pillar of the Wellbeing Programme: Protecting against Bullying and Respecting Diversity. Adi, our Advocate of Leman, presented the challenge related to Race and Ethnicity. Our boys have to find the similarities they have with their roommates and record a video or an audio.

Even though it rained, and it was very windy this weekend, this did not stop the boys from getting back to their weekend activities. They have resumed activities such as tennis, cooking, climbing… They have also returned to chess, running and history clubs. This weekend they had handball as a different activity. But they have also had a day trip to the oldest chocolate factory in Switzerland, they have visited Maison Cailler, where they have been able to taste some of their chocolates, even the cocoa beans after having gone through the roasting process.

What a weekend have had our Leman boys. The bad weather does not stop these guys to keep on doing things.

Tonight we have our last dinner as a family, just Leman in the dinning hall. We enjoy our dinner with our friends and boarding mates before saying goodbye for 2 weeks for the October Break.

See you in 2 weeks!!

Today we celebrated the 18th Birthday of one of our boy. Now Jinwoo is a young man adult.

We hope you had an awesome day and keep celebrating now during the break at home.

Today we celebrate the 16th Birthday of Jinde, one of our boys. We gather as always with some friends in the kitchen and eat some cake, but this time was not chocolate as always, tonight we have RASPBERRY CAKE!!

What a delicious cake and awesome celebration!!

This afternoon our boys played the second game of the basketball tournament. Leman did not win, but we came close and our team fought hard on the court. We will see what happens next time.

Until the next derby!

This weekend was the first trip of the Boarding Community. The destination was the Disneyland Paris theme park! Our boys have the opportunity to meet the mythical characters of their favourite films, ride and have fun on the different attractions and see the incredible parades. They felt like children again in a magical world and lived the Disney experience 100%.

After having enjoyed a dinner with friends and the weekend with the family, we gathered in the kitchen to eat the chocolate cake and celebrate the 16th birthday.

This last weekend, our boys took part in many of the activities we have. Firstly, we started with the barbecue we had on Friday evening. The students were helping with the activities and selling moon cakes to celebrate the Chinese moon festival and raise money for charity. On Saturday and Sunday, they took part in the activities we usually have every weekend such as chess club, climbing, cooking, golf and tennis. This weekend they also went to Walibi amusement park where they had a great time and some of them also participated in the new history club.

This weekend there was a derby on Lake Geneva, Servette FC (Geneva) vs Lausanne. Many of our boys took the opportunity to watch this match and cheer for the team they liked the most. They had a great time together with their friends and saw the victory of the Geneva team.

This weekend we had a wide variety of activities. Our students have been to the climbing wall, driving go-karts on an indoor circuit, they have also had tennis and cooking lessons in our facilities and many more activities. We are still taking advantage of the good weather to do some paddle boarding on the lake and running around the campus. For the first time we have also been able to play paddle tennis.

This weekend the lake clean-up took place in Geneva and some of our boys helped both in setting up the facilities and picking up rubbish from the shores. Meanwhile, other boys have been taking care of the campus.