It was a very quiet weekend on campus.
Some students chose to go to the mountains with boarding, while others enjoyed a relaxing weekend on campus or away with their families.
For our house, this was the perfect opportunity to get ready for Valentine’s day 🌹
We hung our decorations and made little envelopes so the girls can send friendship messages to each other 📩
Let’s spread some love, good vibes and positive energy!
When you ask our students the question: What makes boarding so great?
They will answer confidently and with a smile that goes from ear to ear 😄: The international community!
In our house only, we have already ! 8 ! different nationalities.
Can you guess what country is each flag from? 👍
Collège du Léman Mountain Weekend 🌞🎿
This weekend, we went on our first snow trip to the mountains and had an amazing time! 🙌🌞🎿
On Friday afternoon, we set off on a beautiful drive from Versoix, passing some lovely views overlooking Lac Léman where the sun started to set. We then continued through the Rhone valley and then finally onto our destination, Fiesch.
Views of Lac Léman
We were very lucky to have sunshine and blue skies on both days, and even luckier to have fresh powder on the slopes, ideal conditions for the perfect skiing & snowboarding experience! 🎿🌞🏂
Views from the gondola on the way up
Our girls definitely enjoyed their first skiing experience of 2023, even if they were a bit cold!
Whilst some of our students were enjoying the snow up in the mountains, others were able to relax in the thermal baths in Brigg and explore the local town of Fiesch. A very Swiss experience indeed!
Views of Fiesch
The evenings were spent enjoying food in the resort restaurant or indulging in some typically Swiss food in the local restaurants. After dinner, all students had the option of playing Bingo, board games or a game of Bowling, however, it was clear that our skiers needed some well earned rest so instead spent the evening relaxing and preparing for the next day on the slopes!
Views from the top of the mountains
Plenty of fresh snow waiting for us!
All in all, we had a lovely weekend where plenty of beautiful memories were made. We are already looking forward to returning soon, fingers crossed we get spoilt with the same sunshine and snowfall! 🌞
During our weekly housemeeting we introduced the next wellbeing pillar: Building Positive Friendships
We concentrated on the questions:
By the end of the pillar we want to find an answer on the take-away point: What are the benefits of an international friendship? 👬
A first reflection provided us with the following answers.
– We learn about differences in culture and how other nationalities perceive things that are for one considered ‘normal’ but are not for others. This opens very interesting discussions and broadens our view. It occurs as well that we encounter funny situations because of this!
-Being able to travel all over the world and know people anywhere
-…
Afterwards, we discussed what we will be doing as a house project. We came up with some fun ideas that we will put into practice for next week! So keep an eye out on our blog 🤩
For those who want to see the video that we watched together:
Of course, there are no International friendships without international dinners. For this week we had a Chinese caterer!
Our first normal weekend back in Boarding.
And it was one with a lot of laughter, fun and activities!
On Saturday Morning, Polina, Dasha, Kate, Kseniia, Beatriz and Sakura went for a cooking class.
They made a delicious Couscous with chicken meatballs 🐔
Afterwards most of the girls went to Geneva, only a few decided to stay in the house and to relax.
Beatriz took some time to do her laundry – Look how enthusiastically she is ironing!
On Sunday it is time for Brunch!
Afterwards, Beatriz went to bodyshaping and Lisa to the music club. 🎶
We finally could welcome Parisa back into the house! Now we are complete again 🤗
The girls had some friends over in the house and spend a lovely time together!
Today we enjoyed eating dinner together in our cosy boarding house.
Our wonderful chefs prepared a lovely meal for us including Chicken Biryani, naan bread, vegetable dahl and a lovely mango & coconut cheesecake to finish, delicious!
During our first Boarding Assembly in 2023 we launched The Third Pillar of our Well-being Program: Building Positive Friendships.
Being in an International boarding school gives the students many opportunities to form deep and strong connections with other students from all over the world.
This brings many challenges but mostly also a lot of benefits and great experiences!
The upcoming weeks we will dive deeper into this pillar and work on several projects.
We hope everyone had an amazing holiday.
We wish you a great 2023 and all the best wishes!
This weekend we also welcomed a new student in our house: Beatriz!
The girls helped her settle in and we are excited to have her finally here with us.
Welcome Beatriz, and to an awesome year together in CDL!