Jeune Genevois means a bank holiday, which equals to “day with no classes”, which equals to day trip to Lausanne since all shops and venues are closed in Geneva.
A big group of boarders took advantage of this to visit the city, enjoy the views, do some shopping and relax in this beautiful city on the north shore of the Lake.
Tomorrow we will be heading to the mountains… more news will follow 🙂
It is that time of year again when we launch the first pillar of our wellbeing programme in the Boarding Houses – ‘Nurturing Healthy Bodies and Minds’.
Throughout this pillar we will be ensuring our students understand the importance of taking care of our bodies and our minds in our day to day lives. Furthermore, we will be highlighting sport participation, sleeping patterns, nutrition and relaxation methods, as sub topics. With the students, we will discuss and discover how all these could play a key role in maintaining a healthy balance.
This week we will be asking the students how different sports or creative activities can help them with both their physical and mental health.
Timur and Antoni will be presenting in our wellbeing session this week to talk about the sports they do, why they participate in sport, how they feel afterwards, and the physical and mental benefits they experience after exercise.
Roi wants to improve his English and he wants to do it quickly. Therefore, in the evening Roi always comes to us, before bed time and together we do some reading. We help Roi understanding what he is reading and he is making quick progress.
This evening, Roi brought a new book… Johnny English, the secret agent that became famous thanks to actor Rowan Atkinson.
If the book is as funny as the movie we are gonna have some good laughs 🙂
The highly anticipated Boarding House Competition got off to a flying start today, with the first installment being………………
The Sports Competition!!!!
Well done to ALL the Léman boys. It was fantastic to see everyone outside together and working hard as a team!!
The Léman boys taking full advantage of the weekend activities on offer.
Roi enjoying tennis in our tennis dome.
Zitian capturing rain effects around campus.
Antoni, Asiimwe and Rakann enjoying the morning with Mr Rob at running club.
Teodoro and Jinde cooking up some tasty treats.
Congratualtions to Gabriel for an incredible performance in our first monthly Boarding assembly of the school year.
Dear Parents/Guardians,
We would like to welcome each of you to the great start of the 2022-2023 Academic School Year in College du Leman !!
These last few days have been filled with a lot of joy and excitement from new and returning students. In a blink of an eye all students started to meet and socialize with each other with walks to the lake, visiting the Chocolate Factory Favarger, playing basket and football, exploring campus and within many other activities during the weekend. Have a look at some freshly baked pictures taken during these days:
A very warm welcome from the LEMAN FAMILY !!!
What a year it has been! Good work everyone.
To our Graduates and leaving students, we will miss you and remember you fondly.
To our returning students, we will miss you as well…but see you next year!
See you in August!
Today Kosei celebrates his 18th Birthday.
We wish you a lovely Birthday and all the best for the future.
Kosei & Mr Rob
Kosei loves chocolate cake!!
As is our Wednesday night tradition, we enjoyed some American style burgers brought to us by the Brooklyn Kitchen food truck.
Yesterday we had the 2022 graduation ceremony in Geneva. Our Grade 12 students have officially graduated from Collège du Léman. We are incredibly proud of all our Léman 1 boys who graduated yesterday. We will miss them dearly and we wish them all the very best for their next adventure…. University!
To round off an amazing year of hard work and incredible activities, we had our annual end of year event in our wonderful Concha garden this afternoon. The sun was shining and all our Boarding students had a lot of fun. A complete afternoon with swimming and ice creams!!
Our Boarding students helped out in Samedi Du Partage Today.
Samedi Du Partage is a great initiative for the less fortunate who cannot get access to basic provisions. Our students explained to local shoppers the goal of this organisation. As you can see below our very own Leman 1 students, holding the iconic pink bag with Titeuf on it and loading all the goods into crates.
We are proud of our boys’ hard work and showing the true colours of our School by helping our community and others.
This Wednesday evening, Nero’s Pizza Truck was on campus and we had the opportunity to enjoy some delicious pizza, hot and fresh out of the over!
On this day, we celebrate one of our most loved and most outgoing students’ birthday today.
Happy 17th Birthday Karim, from everyone in Leman 1.
Enjoy your day Buddy!
After a rainy day, the boys took advantage of the calmer evening weather and went out onto the astroturf to play some football.
As it’s Sunday, they also had to play and communicate fairly quietly, which was definitely a challenging experience.
As you can see, visibility was less than ideal.
So dark goalkeeper Dias couldn’t find the goal.
Karim, Dias, Timur, HHECtor, Iman and Mark after leaving the goal in the dryer for a bit too long.
Ablai once again got himself up this morning, even AFTER doing leg day the previous day, and went for a 4 km run with Mr. Joe and the rest of the Running Club crew.
Running past the Mies roundabout, looping back to CDL
The final result. Good job boys!
We had quite a large group of boys in cooking today – in fact Leman 1 dominated the second time slot. As a result, the house was chock full of chocolate and lemon/vanilla cupcakes.
Some colorful icing to add an element of surprise when you bite in – will it be chocolate or lemon?
Henry and Zihao mentally preparing for the task ahead.
Amirhossein and Junqi take making cupcakes very seriously.
It’s International dinner night!
Tonight’s speciality was Indian food. The street food style cuisine, mixed with spices and flavours was a success among our students.
Mr Rob went for seconds!
Some highlights from tonight’s football game.
Amirhossein with an impressive volley
Iman running the field and looking for the right pass.
This evening, CDL students of various ages gathered together to put on a series of musical performances and showcase the skills they have been developing this year – including three of our boys Gabriel, Amirhossein and Ilian.
The Dynamic Duo, Ilian (drums) and Gabriel (bass/vocals)
Amirhossein on drums with the Olympus boys Murat (xylophone) and David (
Contemplative Drumming
The Staff Choir performing Bohemian Rhapsody
Round 2 for our resident songbird
Get with the Program!
Today we celebrated our diverse community here at CDL with International Day!
As a result of world events, this is the first time in a few years that we have been able to hold this event, and the return was a resounding success.
By the time I managed to get to the Chinese and Japanese food stalls, organized in part by some of our Leman 1 students, they had been completely sold out!
If only Weihao was as good at League as he was at running the Chinese food stall!
Masanobu, Aoto and Taichi grinding out some shaved ice. Yoku Yatta!
Don’t be fooled, Shintaro is having the time of his life!
This evening, Leman 1 and Leman 2 barbecued together to celebrate the birthday of our dear Mr. Antonio from Leman 2!
Mr. Rogerio and the suspiciously ever youthful Mr. Antonio grilling up a storm…does anyone have any garlic?
Invading their oh-so-delicious space.
Henry digging in with abandon
This morning, Ablai once again joined Mr. Joe from Olympus for a 5km run. He was fairly tired already and it was a blisteringly hot day, but he pushed on.
We would like to commend him for his perseverance and tenacity!
Good job Ablai, we’re proud of you!
This sunny Sunday afternoon, a bunch of our 10th graders headed to the Golf de la Vieille-Bâtie and spent the afternoon on the course.
Carlos checking if Amirhossein is real, while Amir tees up.
Carlos baffled by Baudelio’s existence as well.
Our leman team played in the semi-finals of our Boarding Football Championship.
Timur full stretch to win the ball back.
Beautiful day for a kickabout!
Amirhossein trying to find the right pass.
Masanobu with a cool first touch!
The latest instalment of our adventurous trip programme saw a group of our Boarding Students travel to German this weekend to visit the incredibly fun Europa Park!! Although all our students are very tired now, they all had a brilliant time!
