Dear friends and family of the Léman 2 Boarding House,

            My name is Roger Rodrigues and it is with immense joy that I will be joining Mr. Antonio and Mr. Rodrigo in Léman 2.  I am a trained classical Pianist, Musician and Teacher, love Sports and outdoor activities are a must. Soon we will all have a chance to meet up personally and I am looking very much forward to do my best in providing help and support to all students and colleagues 🙂 !

            For now wishes of an excellent New Year and welcome back!

Roger

After our lovely Christmas Dinner, the two Léman Houses got together for some after party time 🙂

Giggles, sweets, a Kahoot on Pop Culture and the Swiss tradition of the Escalade Marmite kept the boys in a good mood for the rest of the evening… surely with an important sugar intake 🙂

Kahoot is taken seriously by some

Tim, the big winner of the Pop Culture Quiz

The eldest and the youngest in the room…

…have broken the Escalade Marmite, under the watchful eye of the only Swiss in the House

2 days later, it’s celebration time again and we shared the lovely chocolate cake for Tim’s 17th birthday. We wish Tim a life full of great adventures and thank him for his contributions to the Boarding community.

Happy birthday Tim from all Léman 2 House 🙂

It was a special day in Léman 2 as we have celebrated Misha and his 18th birthday.

After dinner we got together to sing С Днем рожденья тебя and share a slice of chocolate cake.

We wish you all the best for you and your future Misha.

🙂

End of Semester means Awards Ceremony and for the first time in nearly two years we managed to do it all together and celebrate so many achievements.

Léman 2 was well represented with Mateus winning the Boarding Life Award.

And Rakann having a medal for his outstanding Activities Participation

A special mention to Kotaro who also got a medal for his outstanding academics with the highest score for a grade 12. Unfortunately he was not able to attend but he was with us from his quarantine facility in Japan where he will have to stay for a few more days.

But his medal is here with us. Well done everyone 🙂

The house competition is back, this time with the challenge of creating a gingerbread house, Rakann and Hamza have been working very hard, realising how difficult this challenge can be but most of all having fun in the creation process, they have discovered that sugar glue is not as effective as normal glue and that the gingerbread sheets break easily.

But we can only congratulate them for doing their best, let’s see if the judges give us any points for the competition.

Helping others while having a good time.

We are proud of our lovely boys who took some time on a Saturday to help with the collection of donations at the Samedi du Partage.

A total of 21 Boarders joined this initiative and Léman 2 had 6 representatives who did a great job welcoming the costumers and their donations for this food bank.

It is even more rewarding when one of this students calls at the end of his shift, simply to say: “I am happy I did this. It made me feel so good that I entered the supermarket and bought a lot of items to donate myself”.

Proud and touching. Thank you everyone for this.

Today we had again the visit of Ms Jody. Our counselor stopped by to give us a quick briefing on empathy.

During her talk we came to conclude that empathy is the first step that leads us to be sensitive to the importance of  Community Service. As we help others, we express our empathy.

As indicated in the graph below, this is expressed in different levels and quite often without us even noticing it.

As mentioned before and so many times, helping others is the best way of fighting differences in society and also to give us a glimpse of what life is about in a point of view sometimes totally opposite to our.

Nae Nae, this young student, explains on her Ted Talk that the benefits are not only for those who receive. Actually, by giving we also end up receiving, something that quite often has been overlooked.