In this week’s Wellbeing session, we talked about Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.

As we know, the teenage years are a time of self-discovery (getting to know and understand who we are), but also exploring gender identity and sexual orientation. For us, as caregivers, it is crucial to create a healthy and supportive environment where our students can be themselves and express themselves freely.

To help them with their questions and fears, our group of advocates has created a safe platform where students can post their questions anonymously and they will answer them back. We hope this will help our students to feel more comfortable in our community.

The Saint Loup team

For last week’s challenge, the girls needed to record themself with their roommate and find similarities, either in their cultures, personalities, interests, etc.

Bruna (Brazilian) and Haruka (Japanese) talked about how they both like to sleep and as a result, their room is always really quiet; they also discovered that it’s really common in their countries to cook a lot of dishes with pasta! Who would have thought Italians had competition on who eats more pasta!

Akmaral and Sofiya (Kazakhstan) have a lot of points in common! They both love to draw, watch the same Russian shows, and much more. Have a look at their funny video and what they said in it 😊 .

Fields (United States of America) and Kseniia (Russia) have also a lot in common! they both like Drake’s music and to stay in the dark!

The girls had a lot of fun recording these videos and also got to know each other a bit better during the preparation of the recording.

As we can see, it doesn’t matter where we are from, we all can have things in common, even if we come from two continents opposite from each other.

The Saint Loup team

8 billion people are living in the world right now. There are no two similar persons and everyone has their uniqueness (unless you have an identical twin…).

Today we want to celebrate all the little things that make us unique and different by wearing odd socks! Each sock has a different personality, you can like classic socks, funny socks, or stripped socks.

Let’s celebrate diversity!

During the weekend, the only thing we could talk about was rain. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Non-stop. But don’t think this weather stopped the girls from enjoying their free time.

Bruna and Haruka spent their weekend in London (spoiler alert: also raining in London), and Étoile enjoyed a lovely weekend in Marrakech with her family, while the rest of the girls stayed in Geneva.

Sofiya attended an amazing Art Seminar in school where she learned the Felt Technique. After that, she enjoyed a fun afternoon in Nyon with some friends from school!

Akmaral played some tennis in the morning before heading to Geneva in the afternoon as the rest of the girls did (event if it was raining cats and dogs).

Kseniia had a lovely Italian dinner with some of her friends, while Fields went shopping to prepare for the cold winter.

As you can see, nothing can prevent the girls from having a lovely time and enjoy the company of their friends.

The Saint Loup 9 team.

Last night we had our first international dinner after a two-week break. We were delighted with an amazing Portuguese dinner full of Pao com Chouriço, chicken, potatoes and Pasteis de Nata.

But this will not be the only International dinner we will have this week. Do you want some clues? Pan de Muerto, tacos, Calaveras (or the Katrina, as you may also know it).. until then, have a lovely afternoon.

The Saint Loup team.

Last night we celebrated Halloween in CDL. All our candies were prepared to be distributed to the local kids and CDL students. We had lots of fun watching kids knocking on our door with their truly spooky costumes.

We also had some terrific costumes as Fields dressed up as Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, Etoile as a witch, and Emma as a policewoman after an ugly fight.

   
After dinner, Sofiya worked really hard carving our spooky pumpkin, do you recognize the character?

Kindest regards,

The Saint Loup team

Slowly the girls are starting to leave the house to go back home for two well-deserved weeks of holidays. We’ve had a wonderful start to the semester and we couldn’t be happier to share this incredible experience with all our girls.

We wish everyone a lovely October break. Get a lot of rest, enjoy, have fun, and come back ready to continue making unforgettable memories.

The Saint Loup team

Tonight we celebrated the end of the half-term with a lovely dinner in the house before saying goodbye and going back home (exceptions are Fields and Bruna who will be traveling around Europe for two weeks – we are just a little bit jealous, fyi).

Tacos are always a hit and the truth is that we couldn’t get enough! Our stomachs were starting to get full, and glasses were filled with Iced Tea; the conversations were chaotic, and Bruna was trying to convince everyone that she was right, no matter the subject of discussion (but she was open to listening to everyone, of course). We discussed nationalities of origin, languages, foreign alphabets, what would happen if you were born on the border in the middle of the forest (that was an interesting question Kseniia…), and our favorite movies (all of them are for the General Public – Frozen 2, Lorax, High School Musical 3, Horton Hatches the Egg… very teenager-ish movies).

We were having so much fun… we almost forgot about dessert!!

At the same time, our Saint Loup neighbors were also enjoying a delicious dinner and… celebrating Étoile’s 16th birthday with an extraordinary chocolate cake.

All the girls are now packing and getting ready to depart tomorrow afternoon or during the weekend. These first few months have been great and we can’t wait to see you again in 2 weeks, but for now… let’s enjoy the distance!

The Saint Loup team

Last night we enjoyed our last International Dinner before the October break discovering some traditional dishes from Sweden! Meatballs, pastries, smashed potatoes, bread… Food was delicious!

The Saint Loup team.

Last night we had our second Boarding Assembly of the year, where numerous students went on stage to present and introduce us to different topics.

We discovered Brazil’s amazing life and food; we concluded our first Wellbeing Pillar by talking about the importance of a good night’s sleep and how being active can improve not only our physical health but also our mental health; and three of our Prefects introduced us to different charity clubs taking place in our school helping children and adults around Tanzania, Geneva, and Switzerland.

Haruka and her friends Bice, Sayuri, and Hanna, also went on stage and introduced us to one of the charity events we participate in as a Boarding Community, the Gift Box Appeal. During the month of November, we will be raising money among the students to provide gift boxes during the Christmas season to those in need. Last year we helped bring happiness to Ukranian refugees who had to fly away from their hometowns and their country due to the war.

The Saint Loup team