Dear all,
Tonight we took a journey over to India and had the privlige of enjoying a lovely butter chicken dish, accompanied by an assortment of other traditional delicacies.
Thank you to the all the cooking team for their incredible work!
The Saint-Loup Team ❤️
Dear all,
From all at the Saint-Loup houses, welcome back! We hope you had a restful break and are ready for everything in the next term.
The Saint-Loup Team ❤️
Dear all,
It is now the February Break, from all of us here at Saint-Loup – we wish you an enjoyable and relaxing week!
The Saint-Loup Team
Dear all,
As we all celebrate being global citizens and internationalism – I asked the Saint-Loup 9 boys their opinions on the defiinitions and here are their answers, captured in all their one-take glory, because as every great director knows, the first take is always the best!
The Saint-Loup 9 Team
We all had a beautiful way of expressing our understanding around Global Citizenship. Our common ground was that
we are all equal and we should live life with understanding, inclusivity and respect towards all living things and our planet. We are a global community striving for a better world!
The Saint Loup team ❤️
On Saturday evening, two of our boys, Eduardo and Luiz, celebrated their friend, Enzo’s, 18th birthday, by enjoying a lovely meal in Geneva .
The same evening, whilst on exeat, David found himself watching a football match in Paris.
On Sunday, some of our boys invited their friends over for some New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe on the Nintendo Switch, as well as a Mario Kart competition. They then finished their weekend by enjoying a game of football on campus.
Overall, a fairly quiet weekend before the holidays.
One part of our values in CDL is to promote internationalism. It’s a real chance for our boarders and day students to have the opportunity to live and learn with so many people coming from so many different countries and cultural backgrounds. It allows them to enlarge their vision of the world and enriches their knowledge and it gives them a better sense of tolerance.
In our home sweet home (St Loup 9) we have 7 boarders, 2 house parents, 8 nationalities, 6 languages. A real chance to be together. The challenge I gave to our wonderful boarders, a few months ago, was to showcase anything that they would like to share to their home mates and even to other boarders from other villas, about their cultures and country.
Today Etoile from France was the first one to try the challenge, two of her housemates joined, and we also had the pleasure to welcome another boarder from another villa, and also a day student.
It was a magical time, with lots of joy, and fun. Etoile taught her friends how to make French crêpes, she played French music, and a very popular song from a very popular singer popped up. “Cette soirée là”, from Claude François. Etoile was happy to speak a little bit concerning this French artist, and gave a little bit of background concerning him. If you are curious, I would encourage you to have a look at that video too : Claude François – Cette année là (Clip officiel) (youtube.com)
Please let us know in the comments what you think about this song and choreography.
The most funny part of this afternoon was that suddenly the guests decided to make their own recipe, adding ingredients to the crêpes dough.
This is what we call a cultural melting pot.
It was a real success. And we are looking forwards to live another internationalism adventure, maybe next time we will have the joy to taste a special meal from Republican Republic or we will have the opportunity to hear a song from Bhutan, or someone will teach us a Ukrainian dance. Who knows who will be the next one to try the challenge, but for sure we are looking forwards to have another fantastic time together.
Special thanks to Etoile for being the leader of this wonderful time.
Dear all,
Today we had the opportunity to have dinner at home, which suited the boys down to the ground. We also had a sepcial occassion to celebrate, as earlier this week the newest member of the Saint-Loup 9 house joined – welcome Mahan! Now that we have a full house (and full bellies!), we are ready to take on the world by storm!
The Saint-Loup Team
Eduardo, Luiz Eduardo, Mahan & David enjoying their dinner for the first time as a full house – including a partial cameo in the reflection!
Dear all,
Today, the College du Leman community celebrated the Lunar New Year – Gong Xi Fa Chai, May you be happy and prosperous!
We celebrated the day by a special presentation brought by two of the Leman Boarding House students during our monthly Boarding Assembly, as well as making it the focus of our weekly International Dinner meal.
A sepcial mention, in regards to our monthly Boarding Assembly, must also go out to Saint-Loup 9’s very own Luiz Eduardo, who along with others students going on the Tanzania trip (a few places still available!), spoke about a charity football competition, with funds being raised towards Tanzanian needs!
Happy Lunar New Year!
All the best,
The Saint-Loup Team
Dear all,
On Sunday, the Saint-Loup 9 lads visited the boys at the Concha Boarding House to experience some traditional Raclette. Smiles all round and a tasy meal had by all! 🧀
Saint-Loup 9 Team
