Not many boarders decided to face the cold rain of December to participate in the Escalade Run, a traditional feature of the Geneva area which gathers thousands of people every year. Leman 2 is proud of John and Iman who did a great job and showed a fantastic sports spirit and had a great time despite the adversities of the weather. They represented well our CDL- Boarding Team with some other boys from our community so a big well done to all 🙂
Fresh, homemade pasta cooked from the scratch was this Saturday morning’s challenge to Rayaan… and judging from his face, he didn’t do too bad … Yummy 😀
Generosity is one of the key elements of what we try to pass on to our students and it’s amazing to see that values of this nature are part of their lives.
A huge well done and thank you goes to Johannes, Taichi, Kotaro, Alex, Amirhossein and Rayaan for having taken the time to buy a Christmas present to a child in a foster home here in Geneva area. It’s surely a small thing but it will probably mean a lot to a child. Doing something to others is definitely something magic 🙂
A formal complaint needs to be placed… Vansh is cheating, using the phone to get tips 🙂 Still Rayaan did well and got to the semi-finals.
In our Well Being period today we had a special moment.
On the topic of Respect and Diversity we ended up directing our conversation to how to help others.
Johannes gave us a lovely testimonial, on how he felt he could be helpful and useful to the primary boys he is seeing on a regular basis. According to him, he always wished he would have had an older brother to guide him in life and today he feels he can be a little bit the bigger brother to these younger students who are away from home.
Our Community Service and Charity service provide us with a good structure to do something meaningful to others. However what is important is to have our hearts full of good will towards others and not necessarily counting with a formal reward in then end of each gesture.
In his own way, Johannes is leading by example and his generosity is deeply appreciated.
Leman 2 is a House of Badminton players. Six of our boys joined this week-end’s workshop and perfectionned their skills in this exciting and demanding sport. Our “team” was composed of Kotaro, Keitaro, Edward, Iman, Taichi and Nobu. Super job, boys.
Did you know that England colonized 25% of the world?
Did you know that Angola’s former president ruled the country for over 40 years?
Did you know that in Jordan and Iran there are two different types of Muslim religion?
Did you know that China has over 5000 years of history?
Did you know that Chernobyl was a huge disaster in Ukrainian history and that it happened 33 years ago?
Did you know that Indian’s Diwali is originally a celebration about a son getting back home to his parents?
Did you know football was invented in England and that the Tea tradition in UK was introduced there by a Portuguese princess?
All these are some of the things we shared and learned today in our session about Diversity. Sharing parts of our culture and countries is a way of putting forward our unity and developing a sense of respect. The boys say they feel that respect of diversity is one of the strengths of this school. The R of our Rise motto ( Respect ) is something we take seriously and the good atmosphere in the Boarding Houses is nice example of how rich we are to have so many different students, living together in a peaceful and friendly manner.
Under a cloudy sky, the Geneva Bains Bleus are the perfect combination to keep warm and in contact with the nature.
Here are three good friends enjoying the thermal waters, in a relaxing moment.
One of the things that makes us proud is to see our students getting better in areas they are passionate about. Yida’s tennis skills are visibly impressive and the quality of his game as been noticed by our coach. This is representative of the Spirit ( from RISE ) that we want our students to put in place. Well done to Yida for being so reliable, enthusiastic and for all the effort 🙂