Yesterday our dear Camila had a birthday full of wonderful moments 😍🤗 starting from her parents surprise of the balloons with a touching birthday message, a dinner with her dearest friends, ending then with some time spent with her New Portena family to eat all together the birthday cake 🍰🎉

Happy birthday again, Cami ❤️ Feliz cumpleaños! 😘

The new week has started with today, November 13, the “Odd Socks Day” in Collège du Léman.

This day is an important part of the second pillar of the school wellbeing program about which New Portena girls are continuing to work on by preserving a culture of respect, inclusion, and empathy, and reducing the negative impact of bullying on individuals and communities.

Besides karaoke, the girls also joined different activities: cooking, tennis, stretching and relaxation, and other ones!

Thank you Rin for the meal you cooked for us 🫶🏼

Last night New Portena girls invited friends from other houses for enjoying karaoke together… 🎤🎶 and why not anticipating the warmest atmosphere of the year, which is close, by also singing Christmas songs?! 😊

Happy birthday, dear Jane. We wish you the best! It is so nice to have you in New Portena 🧡🏡

Bon anniversaire Jane!! 🥰🥳

We introduce you to Nippy, the owl pumpkin that New Portena girls had fun to carve last Monday 😀

Yesterday evening New Portena house and its living room decorated with fake spider webs, bats, cockroaches as well as a table full of candies, marshmallows dipped in chocolate, scaring Oreo biscuits and much more hosted students from other houses who had a lot of fun playing board games and baking ghost, bat, pumpkin, brain-shaped sweets with New Portena girls! 🍭🧁

The whole house is decorated and everything is ready for the evening of Halloween.

We made every effort to complete the decorations before the arrival of the girls from holidays and we are very happy that they enjoyed this surprise.

During the October break Melissa joined an amazing trip in Vietnam and Cambodia with other students of the school. The two weeks were filled with exciting activities and places to visit. Trips like this can be incredibly enriching and provide a wealth of experiences and memories.

Vietnam 
After being in Hanoi, students went to Sapa which is one of the most interesting towns in North Vietnam and where there are beautiful mountain-spaces, diversity of minority people, and rice terrace fields, especially Fansipan Mountain well-known as Indochina Top. Students had the opportunity to interact with the locals during a visit to a Primary boarding school in the area and they did a boat tour in Tràng An. They also did a one-day cruise where they could do some kayaking in a lagoon and visit Sung Sot Cave. They visited the Vietnam Military Museum to learn about their history and enjoyed a rickshaw tour of the city and shop for souvenirs.

Cambodia
Memories of Cambodia will also always be unforgettable for the students. In Siem Reap they embarked on a culinary adventure with a cooking lesson, where everyone learned how to cook traditional Cambodian dishes and received certificates for their culinary achievements! 

It was a great luck also to have the opportunity to visit an orphanage: the time spent with children was truly heartwarming.
The 15 students who went on this trip generously donated school materials to 65 local students in need, a seemingly small gesture which meant so much to these children. We are so proud of Melissa and all the students for taking time to do such a beautiful thing.

Students were delighted to have a traditional dinner while enjoying a lovely Apsara Dance show.

The visit to the Angkor Wat and the Tomb Raider temple captivated them and after that they journeyed to the capital, Phnom Penh.

On their last day they had the privilege to interact with the local students, an enriching experience that touched their hearts.