Old Portena is a wonderful house to live in. It is a peaceful place which you can always call home. During a hard school week our tutors will always understand our problems and take our words seriously. We have house activities and study hall every night after school. I love our cooking activity the most. During the weekend we have free time and activities. Every Saturday we go shopping in Geneva and enjoy the wonderful views over Lake Geneva. On Sundays we have trips to different places around Switzerland which are fun. We usually end our weekend with hot chocolate and talking to our friends before another hard school week.    Sofiya V and Anna S (Grade 8)

Go Karting was awesome – it was really fast and really fun!

Our weekends don’t have the same routine as the week days. Our tutors, Joanne and Beatriz, always find new activities for us to do that unite our house together. These activities are not compulsory but all the girls in the house have fun doing them – this weekend we had sweet hot chocolate and apple crumble baking to our movie night in the Old Portena office on Friday watching ‘The Holiday’ with popcorn and keeping warm under our duvets all together. This weekend we also made decorations for our bedrooms with Hama beads – I made a bowl for my desk which is very colourful. There was also the option to watch Skyfall at the cinema, play golf, go horseriding or play in the rock band as well as our usual shopping trip to Geneva and not to forget our study halls to get all our homework done. Our weekends feel more like a sleepover with all our friends so I really enjoy them. (Sofiya V. G8)